On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:56:40 +0100, Graeme Cogger
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On the whole I’d say that you _can_ get an LCD monitor that is as good for graphics as a top quality CRT, but you have to pay for it (e.g. the Eizo CG series). If you spend less money but choose carefully, they are good enough for all but the most critical use. There is one proviso, however – with a CRT you could get OK colour accuracy just by calibrating the monitor using Adobe Gamma. With an LCD you generally need a hardware system (e.g. Monaco Optix Pro, or Eye-One Display 2).
Amazing what you can learn just by lurking on other ppls queries.
I have an L17TX TFT (Who makes it?? it ‘aint the Hyundi HDTV that’s for sure) which has been so-so-ish.
As a rank amateur, now looking urgently for a job (nudge – cv in sig file) I looked at the price of a hardware calibration tool and got scared away.
I had never heard of Adobe Gamma.
So OK I have tried it. Found that I could not get the centre square to disappear, but set it to equal some of the stripes, if you follow me and generally got to something like the requested settings elsewhere.
The results have been quite stark. The photographs came to life like never before, but the screen became an ‘eyeball blaster’ as we say with industrial radiographic screens when in use away from the piccys. The result was that I had to wind back on the colour and contrast again. The result now is that, whist I have put away the sunglasses for general work, the piccys are on the dark side.
So thanks from someone else for that pointer, but whist I am burbling on, why can there not be a simple calibrated printed strip which could be held up against the screen and the screen controls winded to match that?
What am I missing?
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