I'm sure calibration questions are tired here, but hopefully all I need here is some quick advice. I have the Monaco XRITE DTP 94 colorimeter.
Brief version: aside from Color Eyes Display Pro software, which I downloaded and tried last night (I had an older version of CEYD that came bundled with the XRITE 2 years ago), is there some good calibration software you could recommned that has a trial version? I want to compare the results to what CEYD Pro is giving me.
Long version: I have been out of the hobby (slammed with school/work) for many months. Just got back from vacation and wanted to calibrate my display, which I havent done since a year ago) before getting into my editing.
I am now using Vista, and wasnt sure if the old Color Eyes software would play nice with it. So I downloaded their newest version of Color Eyes Pro to try, since it says it should work with Vista.
Basically, it seemed to brighten the display a lot, to the point that ISO 1600 images were looking *horribly* noisy at their "as shot" settings in Lightroom. I expect noise to creep up when pushing the exposure, but not without any exposure compensation.
This is exascerbated by the fact that I have traditionally had a problem with prints coming out too dark (despite being very careful to follow numerous tutorials to ensure I am using the correct settings, not letting the printer make decisions etc). Therefore anything that brightens my display more is likely to frustrate me even furrther when trying to print.
I am therefore dubious about the recent calibration, and wanted to try another software with my XRITE to see if the results are similar. What do you recommend.
What can I do to tell if my calibration is off? What settings might you recommend in CEYD Pro to correct this.
Does it make sense that my ISO 1600 images show a lot of noise without any exposure compensation??
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Finally.. the monitor is a 4 year old Dell LCD... any advice on an affordable well respected LCD.... big size is not important... 19" would be fine.
