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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Calibrated monitors for photography vs. daily use? | |
slrl0ver wrote:
All,
Do you use separate monitors for "daily" use vs. photography? If not, how do you handle working with "dim" displays which are appropriate for printing (90-100 cd/m^2)? Do you switch to a different brightness levels when not image editing?
I'm looking for bigger monitors and simultaneously want to get back into photography, which includes making prints. Previously when I calibrated my display, I set the brightness to 100 cd/m^2 so prints wouldn't be too dark. Unfortunately that made my daily usage painful as the displays simply looked very dull.
- slrl0ver
I calibrated my display to 100cd/m2 and 5750K to get a good visual print match for the paper I use most often under my print viewing condition (Solux light, 5000K). I keep my room pretty dark so I don't really have any problem with doing other stuff under the same condition. However, I do prefer browsing the web and doing other stuff with a little brighter and cooler screen (120-140cd/m2, 6500K) so I created several calibration profiles and switch among them for different purposes. I also have a sRGB emulation mode for sRGB only applications. I use an NEC PA272 with NEC Spectraview software. Because the NEC software communicates directly with the display hardware so I only need to create a new profile set the targets. Once calibrated, I can select any of those profiles, the NEC software will bring the display to the calibrated parameters.
I believe you will need a display with hardware calibration capability to do this. Any of the NEC PA series screen with NEC software and I'm sure the Eizo ColorEdge line of displays have this capability. More affordable offerings from Dell or Asus appear to have hardware calibration capability but I'm not sure about the proprietary software you will need to calibrate the display's hardware. I remember a couple of years ago Dell advertised one of their UltraSharp PremierColor as "hardware calibration capable" but didn't have any software to drive it. I hope the situation has changed. You may want to look into that. Without proper software, the hardware calibration capability with internal LUT is pretty much useless.
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