Pretty close to my experience. The Mac OS X software display calibration utility works very well, but a hardware colorimeter improved the curve just enough to make my print output absolutely consistent with what is on the display, every time, and has saved quite a lot of paper and ink. :-)
Godfrey On Oct 14, 2006, at 3:55 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I use the Apple Cinema Display 20 as my principal viewing monitor. I > calibrated it with the Apple software, and it was very close to my > printer output. I usually dialed in my pics until they looked goot, > then gave them a tiny bit more contrast with a curves rgb S-curve and > a bit more midtone brightness with a push up in the middle of the rgb > curve. That would yield a print that matched what my calibrated > monitor had displayed before I performed those last two tweaks. I > tried compensating for that discrepancy with monitor adjustments, but > never quite got there. The apple monitor adjusts through the setup > process, but other than brightness, there are no knobs to twist. But > I was very close to dead nuts, so i didn't worry about it. I finally > bought a Colorvision Spyder II Express when Amazon offered it for > $69.. I didn't think I'd get any closer than I was, but what the > hell. For that kind of money, I gave it a try. Just tonight, I ran > the calibration. Looked good. I printed a somewhat difficult backlit > shot. Dead nuts. Right on. I'm a happy man. > BTW, the Express version of this device comes with the same > hardware as the pro version, but the software is very basic. However, > it does the full range of color adjustments. Rather than allowing > selection of things like temperature and gamma, It goes with whatever > the monitor is currently displaying. Works for me. > Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
