I setup the Dell UP2516D this afternoon. Physical setup was as easy as
it should have been. Calibrating and setting up drivers was was
interesting but everything is working as it should now.
Igor had mentioned that some wide gamut monitors have issues with
software that expects SRGB color space. Dell addresses that with with
their "Display Manager" that changes the monitor color space on an
application by application basis. So by default Photoshop is configured
for "Multimedia" and Office Apps configured as "Standard." When you
drill into the settings you find both generic settings - like Games,
Multimedia, Movies - plus standard color spaces - SRGB, Adobe RGB, REC
709 - and specific white point color temperatures. You can configure
any of the listed apps to work with any of the listed settings. There is
a catch-all default for any apps not listed.
Its neat idea but has some flaws. I ran my XRite i1Display calibration
program but realized that the resulting profile was not added to the
list of available profiles in the display manger. Dell has a Dell
specific version of XRite DIsplay and installing and running that does
add your own calibration to the available options. Not sure how things
work for people with another type of colorimeter.
Aside from that, if you have an app that isn't listed it will work out
of the catch-all default color space and not use the calibrated space.
For me, Zerene Stacker and Photomatix are two examples. It would be nice
if you could manually add apps to the display manager. Also, switching
from the General color space to the calibrated space can be kind of
distracting as the brightness level and color temp change enough to be
noticeable.
So for now I have just turned all that stuff off and am just letting the
monitor work out of the calibrated color space all the time.
I had pulled together some images that showed significant out of gamma
areas when being printed and checked them out with the new monitor.
Compared the old monitor (now #2 of the system) in some cases there is a
very significant difference in how they look on the screen. The most
severe examples go back to my first days of scanning in the late 1990's,
when I was totally unaware of color management. I guess to some extent
my old srgb monitor really was not showing me the colors that were
really there, though it does not seem to be a pervasive problem.
Mark
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