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I am usually in a small room with regular tungsten light, not optimal I know. I measured the room to around 37 lux. Would you say 90 is a sufficient brightness to calibrate against? I never print, only digital.

Thanks!

Nov 03, 2022 at 09:43 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Correct brightness, calibration

You want to switch that tungsten light to a daylight colour.

I have a single 7W daylight Led behind me in a 12ft x 14ft room with a 2 stop ND on the bulb to reduce it further. Ambient light is not enough to comfortably read with.

I have my Eizo set to 80 cd/m2.

Works perfectly for print and digital. Been working this way for 10-15 years. (You shouldn't need to have different brightness levels either way. It is either right or wrong)

Nov 03, 2022 at 11:54 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Correct brightness, calibration

memoria wrote:
I am usually in a small room with regular tungsten light, not optimal I know. I measured the room to around 37 lux. Would you say 90 is a sufficient brightness to calibrate against? I never print, only digital.

Thanks!

That sounds about right for that ambient. I just measured my area. With the not very bright fluorescent on it's 76 lux and with it off I'm pretty dark at under 10. I keep the Eizo at 90-95 cd/m2 and it feels right at both of those luminance. There are just fewer reflections when it's darker even though it's a semi-matte screen.

Nov 03, 2022 at 06:08 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Correct brightness, calibration

Stop using that tungsten light - keep it for profiling your camera ! I assume they're pretty hard to come by in shops these days.

I personally think 90 cd/m2 is generally ok for viewing a monitor except perhaps in a bright office environment or if you have sunlight pouring in through a large window. Then it seems to be a bit too dark.

Some people like much brighter screens and I'll admit that could be ok for watching TVs but it seems to me to be far too bright for viewing up close on a computer monitor.

I just calibrated my Eizo monitor and it took about a minute for each configuration. On that basis you can easily calibrate at 90 cd/m2 for normal use because that is what you are obviously comfortable with, and another one at say 110 and another at say 70. If your monitor/software combo restricts the number of calibrations you can have then stick with your preferred brightness level.

You might want to create profiles for different conditions, such as for sRGB gamut, Adobe RGB gamut, and full monitor gamut. You don't need profiles for different printer gamuts and viewing conditions.

Nov 06, 2022 at 12:52 PM


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