Color calibration spyders on business laptops?

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adykes
Mar 18, 2010
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What’s the consensus on how useful a spyder and gamma setting is on the economy laptops.

The ones I’m looking at happen to have LCD a backlight, maybe they all do, now.

Thanks.

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Mike Russell
Mar 19, 2010
On 18 Mar 2010 07:46:00 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:

What’s the consensus on how useful a spyder and gamma setting is on the economy laptops.

The ones I’m looking at happen to have LCD a backlight, maybe they all do, now.

Thanks.

I think most people don’t need to calibrate using a gadget. Factory calibration is pretty good, and you can easily adjust the overall brightness and color to suit your needs.

For example, if your images look about the way they did on the camera screen, and they print closely enough that you can make a useful prediction on overall color and brightness, the money is better invested in other equipment or software.

That said, monitor colorimeters, such as the Spyder and i1 do work, particularly if you spend about $150 or so. It’s not so much a matter of the color being more accurate, but it might save a few "discussions" if you are in a profession where you need to share your images with other people. —
Mike Russell – http://www.curvemeister.com

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