This is the proof. It seems to be OK up to last iteration: ?!? Thank you Marco Last login: Wed Nov 4 23:56:30 on ttys000iMac-di-Marco-Noldin:~ Marco$ /Applications/Argyll/Argyll_V1.0.4/bin/ dispcal -y l -v imac
Setting up the instrument Instrument Type: Eye-One Pro Serial Number: 120288 Firmware version: 302 CPLD version: 301 Date manufactured: 12-4-2005 U.V. filter ?: No Measure Ambient ?: Yes Tot. Measurement Count: 33833 Remission Spot Count: 7330 Remission Scan Count: 358 Date of last Remission spot cal: Thu Sep 17 15:48:50 2009 Remission Spot Count at last cal: 7328 Total lamp usage: 12059.380859 Place cap on the instrument, or place in on a dark surface, or place on the white calibration reference, and then hit any key to continue, or hit Esc, ^C or Q to abort: Calibration complete Place instrument on test window. Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to continue: Display type is LCD Target white = native white point Target white brightness = native brightness Target black brightness = native brightness Target advertised gamma = 1.800000 Display adjustment menu: Press 1 .. 7 1) Black level (CRT: Offset/Brightness) 2) White point (Color temperature, R,G,B, Gain/Contrast) 3) White level (CRT: Gain/Contrast, LCD: Brightness/Backlight) 4) Black point (R,G,B, Offset/Brightness) 5) Check all 6) Measure and set ambient for viewing condition adjustment 7) Continue on to calibration 8) Exit Commencing device calibration patch 6 of 6 Black = XYZ 0.02 0.02 0.08 Red = XYZ 52.01 26.52 1.39 Green = XYZ 38.14 77.15 11.68 Blue = XYZ 19.85 10.47 110.58 White = XYZ 110.19 114.30 123.55 patch 64 of 64 Initial native brightness target = 114.301560 cd/m^2 Target white value is XYZ 110.185139 114.301560 123.554943 Adjusted target black XYZ 0.03 0.03 0.08, Lab 0.21 -0.01 -0.69 Target black after min adjust: XYZ 0.03 0.03 0.08, Lab 0.21 -0.01 -0.69Gamma curve input offset = 0.010177, output offset = 0.000000, power = 1.826685
Total Iteration 3, Final Samples = 64 Final Repeat threshold = 0.600000 Creating initial calibration curves...Doing iteration 1 with 16 sample points and repeat threshold of 1.200000 DE
patch 16 of 16 Brightness error = 0.000000 cd/m^2 White point error = 0.000000 deltaE Maximum neutral error (@ 0.076146) = 1.144771 deltaE Average neutral error = 0.661319 deltaE Number of measurements taken = 32 Computing update to calibration curves...Doing iteration 2 with 32 sample points and repeat threshold of 0.848528 DE
patch 32 of 32 Brightness error = 0.000000 cd/m^2 White point error = 0.000000 deltaE Maximum neutral error (@ 0.456906) = 0.843594 deltaE Average neutral error = 0.473460 deltaE Number of measurements taken = 39 Computing update to calibration curves...Doing iteration 3 with 64 sample points and repeat threshold of 0.600000 DE
patch 64 of 64 Brightness error = 0.000000 cd/m^2 White point error = 0.000000 deltaE Maximum neutral error (@ 0.000000) = 3.127769 deltaE Average neutral error = 0.619199 deltaE Failed to meet target 0.600000 delta E, got worst case 2.555258 Number of measurements taken = 280 The instrument can be removed from the screen. Written calibration file 'imac.cal' iMac-di-Marco-Noldin:~ Marco$ Il giorno 04/nov/2009, alle ore 19.14, Pascal de Bruijn ha scritto:
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM, manold@xxxxxxxxxx <manold@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Today I have try to calibrate my old Imac with Dispcal. Below the results: the average and maximum error at the end are worse than at beginning. Why?Try running dispcal without the extensive parameters just "dispcal -y l -v imac" Regards, Pascal de Bruijn