[argyllcms] Re: Profiling my Lenovo X61 display
- From: Pedro Côrte-Real <pedro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:12:51 -0800
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Florian Höch <lists+argyllcms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think the issue in your case is a whitepoint that is quite different from
> the "rest" of the display's uncalibrated response. I have seen screens that
> also have rather warm whitepoint like the 5500K in your case, but if I
> measured, say, 10% gray (uncalibrated of cource), the color temp would be in
> the ~7000K range, so the overall look being rather blueish and not warm as
> you'd expect from looking only at the whitepoint.
>
> As dispcal tries to make the gray balance match the whitepoint down the axis
> most of the way, this could explain the brownish appearance you're observing
> after calibration in comparison to the uncalibrated screen. If you let your
> eyes adapt to the whitepoint for a while, this brownish cast might
> "disappear" (or atleast fade), but in your case you want to match the other
> screen, so, probably measure its whitepoint (dispcal -r, then look at the
> reported daylight temp) and use that as a parameter to the -t option to set
> the whitepoint on your laptop screen. This might not work well if it
> sacrifices too much brightness, though.
That sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip.
Pedro
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