My experience so far, and touch wood, with going into digital shooting has been stress free. Whenever I hear horror stories I suspect you have something seriously amiss somewhere.
What I did before buying a calibrator was to use Adobe Gamma or Knoll Gamma for calibrating my screen. Despite what some may say if you have good colour vision you can get very close to a perfect screen. I also asked colleagues and repro people to play a game of match the Gamma. With each one given a different name and date I could click between different version sets and see which ones matched.
Having done that it gives you a fairly good idea whether the machine calibrator is in the same ballpark. If it isn't I'd blame the calibrator before my eyes.
Thomas could have mentioned the verification file and print he produced which gives you an idea of what you should be aiming for.
<<Also - is there a method of actually calibrating the D1X to one's own system? (besides the in-camera settings)>>
Using Capture 1 with a 1ds my embryonic workflow is to treat the RAW file as a negative and to process this to my final requirements. As far as I can see the in-camera settings do nothing to the RAW file and can be overridden later. (others will correct me if I'm wrong)
All these things are a bit like riding a scooter and then a bicycle. Fall off a scooter enough times and you'll ride a bicycle easier.
Yours
Bob Croxford
On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 02:29 pm, Thomas Holm / Pixl wrote:
eddy raphael wrote:
- When I calibrate using the GreitagMacbeth calibrator, the result is
generally good until step 3 or so, when a large translucent square appears
attached to the cursor from it's top left corner. The square is I assume a
software clash or bug.. I have tried many remedies, extensions, re-installs,
throwing other software away etc.. nothing seems to work.
Eddy, try to calibrate to a different gamma in advanced options in the Match
software, or update your system software to OS X 10.2.6+, either should fix
this fix this.
Best Regards
Thomas Holm / Pixl ApS
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