On 12/02/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be precise: > > When one fits a colorimeter and runs its software, the software first > calibrates the screen to the specifications you prefer using the > colorimeter (for me this is gamma 1.8, white point 5500K) and then > creates an ICC profile for the operating system and applications to use.
Very true and just to be a bit more specific, the ICC profile produced describes the measured characteristics of the screen + LUT (look-up-table) (which is embedded in the ICC and is "up-loaded" to the video card during the operating system start-up). -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
