Re: Nathan's PAW 30: A walk in Lisbon - Monitor Calibration

Shel:
After Vincent Versace recommended Gretag-Macbeth's EyeONE Pro at a digital landscape photo workshop in the Tetons last year I bought one. It's what I use to calibrate a Samsung LCD and my laptop screen. CRTs have the best color consistency and maintain calibration better than LCDs but the Samsung is what I have.


At 10:21 PM 7/25/2004, you wrote: 
Hi Nathan,

They look a little bright on my monitor, but I just chalked that up to
differences in calibration and personal preference.  My monitor has been
calibrated, but, like yours, it's been a while since it's ben checked.
They do drift out of calibration after a while.  The Spyder people
recommend calibration every two weeks to a month.  A friend has suggested
that turning the monitor on and off, as opposed to it being in sleep or
hibernation, can hasten the calibration drift.  I speak with no authority
on that point.

Mark, I've been using a friend's Spyder, but one of my labs uses the
Gretag-Macbeth system.  I'm about to buy my own system. Do you (or does
anyone) feel that one is a better system than the other?

Shel Belinkoff


> [Original Message]
> From: Nathan Wajsman <n.wajsman@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 7/26/2004 1:21:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Nathan's PAW 30: A walk in Lisbon
>
> Thanks, Mark.
>
> As for exposure--I do the adjustments on a monitor that is calibrated
> using a Spyder. They look fine to me there. What may be happening is
> that I have recently upgraded to Photoshop CS and may be using the
> "highlight and shadow" adjustment too aggressively. When I look at the
> pictures on my laptop, then they also look too bright, but of course
> this is on an uncalibrated LCD screen.
>
> Maybe I need to go for an overall darker tone in the pictures and/or
> recalibrate my monitor--it has been several months since I last did it.
>
> Nathan
>
> Mark Bohrer wrote:
> > Nathan:
> > I like the retreating perspective of the repeating arches in the last
> > alternate best.
> >
> > All of these images look a little overexposed with the 'glow' I
> > mentioned last time. They almost appear light-struck. If they look OK
on
> > your monitor after scanning and level adjustment in Photoslop maybe
your
> > monitor is out of calibration. Gretag-Macbeth and Spyder make monitor
> > calibration hardware/software packages if you want to calibrate.



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