Monitor Calibration

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Permalink Reply by Paul K on October 8, 2011 at 3:25pm

I calibrate my monitor every two weeks.

I purchased a Spyder3Pro from Datacolor and my monitor looks great.

I even calibrated my laptop monitor and it looks so much better.

Paul K

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Permalink Reply by Dave Murray on October 8, 2011 at 6:17pm

Now you have hit the nail on the head Paul..Members are criticizing other peoples uploads and its their monitor that's wrong. Most people never realiazed that they can calibrate their monitor..Your monitor could be of colour and you import your photo's into programmes like lightroom and start adjusting. Yes they look great now, but that's on your monitor and when other people look at them they are over coloured.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by chuxshotz on October 8, 2011 at 3:37pm

Great Paul K!  Do your printed photos look as good as they do on your monitor?

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Permalink Reply by Paul K on October 9, 2011 at 5:33am

What I see on the screen is 'almost' spot on when I get the prints back.

I say 'almost' because the local printer I use doesn't always calibrate their printers and I've been told the color varies from day to day.

If something doesn't look right, I just have them re-print.

Here's a 'fun' test to see if you monitor is calibrated...

http://www.xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

If you are looking to get the Spyder, I believe this discound still works for 20% off anything from Datacolor - loyalspyder

Paul K

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Permalink Reply by Dave Murray on October 9, 2011 at 8:37am

wow that's some test mate, it gets the pupils and the brain working..haha...thanks for that

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Permalink Reply by paul holmes on October 9, 2011 at 8:47am

all you really have to do is follow the instructions that are in the manual for setting up your monitor.  its usually very close

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Permalink Reply by Paul K on October 9, 2011 at 9:11am

True, a lot of things work really well if your read the instructions.

The nice thing about using a hardware monitor calibration device, is it takes the guess work out of calibrating your monitor and you will get more consistant results.

Monitors and LCDs change over time and it is much easier to calibrate for these changes using a piece of hardware.

I never calibrated my displays until I got one that I just could not get the colors right. No matter what I did, the colors looked awful. That's when I got my Spyder3Pro, it is so much easier and faster to calibrate a display now. I even bought the add-on software to calibrate my TV.

 

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Permalink Reply by Denny Giacobe on October 9, 2011 at 10:11am

I use a Huey Pro version 1.0.5. and let it adjust my monitor at 1 minute intervals to my room light.

I also let it adjust every week.

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Permalink Reply by maestro vecchio on October 10, 2011 at 5:14am

Monitor calibration is very important, especially if you are doing your own printing. I calibrate once a month using the X-Rite i1 display Pro that came with my NEC monitor.

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Permalink Reply by paul holmes on October 12, 2011 at 3:04am

guess im just lucky with my monitor:) i have never had it calibrated. but then again i get all my prints done professionaly so maybe it would be different if i printed my own shots.

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Permalink Reply by chuxshotz on November 9, 2011 at 1:51pm

I purchased the Spyder3Pro as well.  I get a much better color match to my printer however I do notice my monitor randomly changes tones.  Anybody experience this?

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Permalink Reply by Mark Duncan on October 28, 2012 at 11:01pm

Probably a stupid question, but can anyone hazard a guess as to how close the displays for devices such as smart phones, which can't readily be calibrated, are factory set to the kind of standard achieved with monitor calibrating devices such as ColorMunki and Datacolor Spyder?

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