[argyllcms] Re: Good Enough Monitor Profile??
- From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:31:10 +1000
David Lewis wrote:
Hi,
Take for example the little Pico or Swatchmate inexpensive device - and I
just want to
take some very minimal number of readings to be able to display colors so
they are in a
wide general range like 'Printable Red vs Neon Red".
Note that Swatchmate is a reflective colorimeter - you can't use it to measure
a display. It's also not very accurate:
<
https://www.argyllcms.com/doc2/smcube/smcube1.html>.
Pico seems pretty similar (and the fact that the only accuracy claim is
inter-device
accuracy makes its accuracy somewhat suspect too.)
To measure a display you need at least a colorimeter that can measure emission.
The cheapest one I'm aware of that has some possibility of being useably
accurate
is/was the ColorMunki Smile. Otherwise you need to look at something like
the i1Display Studio/Pro. In the scheme of things they are remarkably cheap
if you are at all interested in accurate color, but maybe this is not
what you are after.
[ And be aware of the difference between calibration and profiling. Perhaps
what you are after is actually calibrating your display to be close to sRGB.
Something like HCFR might be a better software choice for doing this.]
Cheers,
Graeme Gill.
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