That looks promising, especially since the spyder 2 software only works with one monitor.
On Sep 28, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
