P.Baldwin wrote: Keith. Calling Neil Scrooge is like saying Audrey Hepburn was ugly! His help on list-like others including yourself-has been of immense value and saved a lot of of people a lot of time and money. The fact is though there are now people on this list who are direct business competitors to Neil so understandably in my view he is slightly-only slightly-less forthcoming with some information. I bet everybody on this list has knowledge they're not prepared to divulge and some knowledge they are.
The answer is yes; yes; yes; yes and yes. Mind you Audrey wasn't affected by the ambient light variations of LCD displays. By day she might appear too dark and by night too light, causing one to have to re-profile and re-evaluate her over and over again.
But I have a question for those of us packing lil' laptops all over the countrysides who don't have calibrating tools like i1 to pack as extra baggage:
I've been testdriving SuperCal http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/ for the feature step-up from the MacOS Display/Calibrate utility. Gamma 2.2 renders too short a shadow range and Gamma 1.8 renders too long. The color values are reasonable but when it comes to luminance the only way I can get any usefull editing begun and done is to work in an entirely dark room or at night. Not so good when you are on a sleeper bus to Yunnan.
So I've begun experimenting with my light meter trying to build an EV index scale of relative optimum luminance values measured against the visual values of a good target for editing on the road. I'm currently using the ProPhotoDisc PDI Target, a Sekonic L-358, and a Powerbook G4 12" with 1.8 gamma card hardwired: at g1.8 the best EV I appear to arrive at is approx. [EMAIL PROTECTED] daytime with full brightness on the display. At g2.2 by day I get approx. [EMAIL PROTECTED] daytime with full brightness on.
I haven't finished scratching my head over night time.
Anybody have any experience doing anything like this from barebones on the road? I have no CRT or other references to go by and I think the last Eye1 dealer I saw was next to the boazi stand on the Zhongshen Donglu in Guangzhou. (Then again I may be writing this just to stay slightly on topic and get a few digs in myself. Your guess.)
I might add that NB, having seen his Dickinsonian hollows, appears to be a post-Xmas dream Scrooge.
Best wishes. I'm away over Christmas. I could tell you where but then I'd have to kill you.:-) Patrick.
Pat you can tell me where you are...I'm in South China and I promise not to tell anyone here.
Merry merry one and all...
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