Joseph, just before you disappear: save this link to look at after your move.
http://www.homecinema-fr.com/colorimetre-hcfr/hcfr-colormeter/ It's a free colorimeter package that supports the Spyder 2. I'm playing with it to calibrate my Blu-Ray / LCD projector combo. (Datacolor wants a lot of money for the LCD projector calibration upgrade.) Best wishes for your move! On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > If you stare at an iMac or possibly Apple monitor fro long, you will go > blind. It is > > bright. The problem lies in trying to match what you see to what you print. > If you adjust an image to your liking with all that brightness, you end up > with dark prints. Really dark prints. In my scatterbrained experience. > > If the brightness is turned down "scientifically" keeping the color values > the same relative to each other, you will be lightening the image to please. > In 100% brightness, it would look too bright and you'd cut the exposure. > Wrong thing to do. That's where Dark Adapted comes in. It lets you control > multiple monitors, each calibrated to the same values, by dimming then > together, or not, and attempting (some say poorly, but not me) to keep the > same values for your color spectrum. > > All I know for sure is 1. I love the monitor dimmed with no brilliant white > blasting you in the face when you are not working images. 2. Whenever you > change the monitor brightness, ganged or separately, a little grey block > opens in the center of your screen with a red, green and blue dot, i … to > just remind you that everything is ok, "I'm doing a good job for you." > > Others on this list are way more into this, and may have different opinions, > or different software, or hate Apple. I frankly have an older ColorVision > Datacolor probe 2 ? that won't do two monitors. But all this touching on the > subject pressured me into buying a new model 4 Pro yesterday, just as the > chatter about AstroTracking forced me to buy a new Pentax GPS-1 unit the day > before. Gotta lay off the PDML for a while and let the cards rest until I get > settled into my new digs and play with my new toys. > > Good Luck - over and out… > > > On Sep 27, 2012, at 17:13 , Christine Nielsen wrote: > >> Thanks for your thoughts... I wonder about the Dark Adapted software...I'm >> not familiar - Do you find that you need that extra intervention to get >> your monitor to a low enough brightness level? Because you are working >> mostly in the evenings, In the dark, I assume? My editing is usually during >> the daytime - until 3pm, when everybody comes back home, then the party's >> over... >> >> On Sep 27, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I too have both an Apple iMac 24" glossy, and an HP mate screen. I got the >>> HP thinking it would be better for image manipulation, or watching >>> streaming movies while I worked. In fact, I work and watch movies on the >>> iMac, using the HP for windows, email, genealogy. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
