Thanks Godfrey, I went with the Eye One Display 2 based on your advice -and with Bill Robb later confirmation as well.
Today I got a batch of prints done at my local Photo Lab (http://www.pikto.ca/). It's close to my place and has profiles available -I used their Frontier+Fuji Matte Paper. I`m happy with the result, even viewing under tungsten light prints match fairly well -had to play with some of the options in photoshop soft proof menu though. Finally no more darker prints: thanks to Mark's Monitor tips and the i1 calibration recommended by Godfrey, now I have an affordable color calibrated setup and I even successfully played with skin tones (wouldn't dare before) -testing lightroom as well, found that nudging the red and orange I get better skin tones (Hue Red +20, Lum Orange +18 and Sat Red -9) still found Capture One pro skin tools more useful though (using both tools on trial for now). And speaking on Lightroom V3, that B&W module is awesome -better than anything I tried other than PS. I rescued a couple of shots with the conversion tool in a couple of minutes: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5038331062_20a86b9137_o.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/5038332388_29f5a5e986_o.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5038332778_e1b587bdb6_o.jpg But the best investment so far this year has been getting Bruce Fraser's Real World Sharpening for $7, it's an old book and refers to older versions of CS2 but still relevant http://www.amazon.com/World-Image-Sharpening-Adobe-Photoshop/dp/0321449916/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_7 Later and hope everything is ok Fernando On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote: > For still photography work, a quality desktop LCD display should only > require recalibration/profiling about every other month at most. I see > less than 2% drift with the Apple Cinema Display 23" (2006 generation) > in six months. > > The Eye One Display 2 is an excellent calibration/profiling system. > It's what I've been using since 2004. > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Doug Franklin > <jehosep...@mindspring.com> wrote: >> On 2010-09-24 10:02, Fernando wrote: >> >> >>> + How often are you supposed to calibrate an LCD monitor. I don't know >>> if it's relevant but I have this monitor and this calibration system: >>> >>> http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/displays/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=corp&sku=320-7825 >>> - Dell 2209WA >>> http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=788 - X-rite i1 display 2 >> >> I'm not familiar with that calibration system, but my Spyder3 wants me to >> recalibrate every month (30 days). >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> DougF (KG4LMZ) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
