Hi all It has taken me all day saturday to get through the software detailing and screen calibration, to end with one printer profile for my 1290 and made three attempts for the screen. Yes, anyone who has tried the ColorVision Spyder and/or Mouse has seen that the software looks somewhat dated, but actually I reckon it will help me in my particular quest for the time being. It is for sure an inferior beast to the Gretag, but luckily for me - I ended up with the first printer profile that isn't that awful!
I am trying for some improved profiles tomorrow and intend to play around with the curves a bit. The ergonomics of the LCD adapter are dreadful, not as good as the Gretag, it's difficult with all the plastic tubing to get it to sit flat (I decided to disconnect it) and bent the screen over til almost flat.. gravity helped. Also, as the patch reader(mouse) is black, so to see which patch you're reading you need extra light... not what you want when measuring 150 to 700+ patches with a calibrator with no ambient whatsit. Other than that I can only see what happens when I finish completely, and have tried numerous test prints etc. What I found useful was the ability to change finished profiles whenever you wish -(?) can you do that on most other calibration systems? (it was of interest to me since I shot a whole string of eastern faces and they needed more colour work than any images I have taken) I can have multi ethnic profiles and not end up giving them all jaundice! Since this is my first profiling session - I guess some of you will be just nodding or eyeball rolling.. but it's a learning curve for me! Neil - big respect to you.. I could NOT do this all day long. The pain in my eyeballs is worse for this calibrating lark. Eddy Raphael =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
