Pink tinge with spyder 3?

Boozebeard · 12 Jun 2011 at 15:18

I bought a spyder 3 pro to calibrate my new Hazro WC. It looks good except that to me the greys seem to have a pink tinge to them, it's the same on my old screen after calibration. Have I just been used to my greys being too blue? Anyone else noticed similar using the spyder 3 or other calibratiors?

EasterEEL · 13 Jun 2011 at 11:16

Boozebeard said:
I bought a spyder 3 pro to calibrate my new Hazro WC. It looks good except that to me the greys seem to have a pink tinge to them, it's the same on my old screen after calibration. Have I just been used to my greys being too blue? Anyone else noticed similar using the spyder 3 or other calibratiors?

No that is not right, there should be no colour cast in the grey bars.

If you are using Windows 7, open Control Panel and type colour management into the top-right seach box. From results choose change advanced color management settings for displays, scanners, and printers. Color Management will open so choose the advanced tab and the calibrate display button. It explains about grey scale during the process. You can cancel out at any stage.

joxang · 13 Jun 2011 at 11:32

Common problem with hardware calibrators. Lots of people get RMAs if it's a constant issue, but there are ways (soft-ware side) to reduce the colour tinge.

I wrote someone a response to a identical question a long while back let me see if I can dig it up...brb

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EDIT: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18256112&highlight=calibration+username_joxang

I've never used the Spyder software so not sure how much of that is useful

. It's different hardware too.

The grays being pink is due to the RGB measurement being slightly off. One thing you can do is go into the monitor control panel post calibration and turn R down a couple of notches, though this will throw the other colours off very slightly - enough for a calibrator to notice but not enough to effect anything except really colour critical work.

Calibrating as a 'laptop screen' means the software assumes you can't adjust RGB, and this often fixes tinging issues.

Boozebeard · 13 Jun 2011 at 17:16

what exactly does using native for the white point do? Does it just use the current white point? Seem to have gotten rid of the pink doing that and setting it as a laptop screen but it only looks very slightly different to stock settings. Although they are meant to be factory calibrated so maybe it just wasn't that far off in the first place.

My secondary TN monitor is still having problems though, doesn't seem to matter what put in the settings. How can I manually change the colours without totally losing the current calibration? The sypder software doesn't let me do it and using calibration feature in windows resets to default calibration when I start it.

Is it worth sending the spyder back?

joxang · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:45

Boozebeard said:
what exactly does using native for the white point do? Does it just use the current white point? Seem to have gotten rid of the pink doing that and setting it as a laptop screen but it only looks very slightly different to stock settings. Although they are meant to be factory calibrated so maybe it just wasn't that far off in the first place.

My secondary TN monitor is still having problems though, doesn't seem to matter what put in the settings. How can I manually change the colours without totally losing the current calibration? The sypder software doesn't let me do it and using calibration feature in windows resets to default calibration when I start it.

Is it worth sending the spyder back?

It changes white point to the native value of the monitor hardware. It means it can use the entire colour range whereas if you set the white point to something else, it shifts the entire colour range up or down. You should be able to test the deltaE of the monitor after calibration to see how accurate the calibration was.

You should be able to change RGB settings in your monitor with the buttons, if you're looking at getting rid of the pink tinge on the TN.

I know people who've RMAed calibrators because they keep on getting colour tinges but a few have just gotten the same thing back. I don't know tbh...do a google and see what other people with spyders have done.

Boozebeard · 13 Jun 2011 at 20:28

Strange how it is calibrating my Hazro perfectly now but still slight pinkness on my Iiyama. Maybe it's just a defect in the cheap tn.

Boozebeard · 13 Jun 2011 at 21:52

Um, how do I get the profiles to stick? If I launch a game it seems to go back to standard settings. They are set as the "deafault" colour profiles in windows.

Mick-1965 · 14 Jun 2011 at 16:15

Boozebeard said:
Um, how do I get the profiles to stick? If I launch a game it seems to go back to standard settings. They are set as the "deafault" colour profiles in windows.

ICC Profiles dont work in games. I think the game just loads up a sRGB profile

Boozebeard · 14 Jun 2011 at 17:02

That is sucky :C

Boozebeard · 15 Jun 2011 at 01:37

Thing is it doesn't even revert back after I quit the game I have to do it manually which is mega annoying.

Mick-1965 · 15 Jun 2011 at 09:15

Some games do, some do not.
Couple I can remember, Bioshock 2 doesn't, neither does DiRT 1.
Others Ive played recently that do reload the ICC profile OK, DiRT 2, Crysis 2, Duke Nukem Forever.