[argyllcms] Re: Continuous reading mode ambient light temperature
- From: Jos van Riswick <josvanr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 12:58:46 +0200
Hi,
I don't see many average users darkening their living rooms
and installing 6500K bulbs so... I too don't think that many
users have an actual *need* to adapt their monitor to the
changing ambient light. But.. how many users actually *need* a gui,
or a cell phone or whatever for that matter ;-) ? But they do
benefit from it.. (although I'm not entirely shure in the case
of cell phones).
Yes, I tried to use prints, but found it very difficult to get the
colors/contrast etc in the print suit me. That's the benifit of a
monitor, one can adjust everyting and view/use the result
immediately..
Jos
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mike Windsor
<puddytat1234@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I can only speak personally, but as an "average user" of Argyll, I want to
> mimic the way a professional would use it. It isn't so critical for me to
> get absolute repeatability and perfectly neutral surroundings, so perhaps I
> don't spend as long getting everything as perfect as I could. But I don't
> want a different thing, I want the same thing; I just need it less
> critically.
>
> Although Jos finds himself with a particular use case, I wouldn't have
> thought that many people are in the position that they need to match
> whitepoint temperature between a screen and a piece of canvas (or any other
> reflective source) with constantly changing illumination. Which is just as
> well, considering how difficult it seems to be to come up with a decent
> mechanism.
>
> Jos, apologies for stating the obvious, but have you considered printing
> your source material? Sure you use up paper and ink, but as your source
> material and work in progress then share an illuminant, you've got
> completely built-in whitepoint matching (and you lose the glare of the
> monitor as well).
>
> I've been interested in the discussion about possible techniques, all of
> which sound a bit hacky (pre-calculating several curves, for example, and
> picking the best fit on the fly). As Jos has pointed out, the Windows Huey
> software (and, I think, the more expensive Spyders) reacts to ambient
> temperature in real time. How does it do it?
>
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