Your monitors are getting old, I had to retire an otherwise awesome
Applevision 850 because when I took the photos I worked on the computer
to the lab they would come out all different.
It simply had gotten too dim and couldn't be calibrated.
Got a B&W CRT (unfortunately only 17") and things got better.
Cheers
Andrea
On 23/11/2005, at 2:11 PM, Richard Starr wrote:
--- You wrote:
what you need to do is calibrate each monitor/card combo to the same
external standard. Using the same profile on two different monitors
is a surefire way of having matching problems. If you're using
Apple's built in calibration, check the advanced box at the
beginning, this lets you tweak it more.
IAC, though getting two different cards and two different monitors to
match is a painstaking process, best handled with external hardware
like the Monaco Optix <http://tinyurl.com/8ua7b>
--- end of quote ---
I did manual calibration on both monitors. The differences are guite
large.
I'm not after perfect match here but I'd like a ballpark.
These monitors are at work. At home I use a Spyder to calibrate,
though I still
don't get a perfect match on two seperate size trinitrons.
Odsd thing is that Photoshop 7 (in os 9..2.2) dosn't like the profile
from the
operating system claibration. I get a window saying the profile is
faulty and I
should calibrate again. And the whites are yellow. I've repeated
calibration
several times and got the same results.
Another odd thing is that on both monitors, with maximum contrast and
maximum
brightness, you still can't see the difference between the halves of
the square,
nor the oval in the calibration window. It comes up all black. The
only other
setting on the monitor that could affect this is color temp. I've
tried setting
them and 6500 (which the Spyder prefers when I use it) and at 9300,
whihc seems
to work better. Neither shows the halves as anything less than black.
These are nice monitors with trinitron tubes. What is going on here?
rich
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