Calibration questions

Tephnos · 1 Sep 2011 at 16:36

Baddass said:
ok so only calibration for one screen? and this is a Hazro HZ27WC yes?

I'll have two eventually, and yes.

Baddass · 1 Sep 2011 at 17:16

ok well in my opinion i think you might be best off with an i1 D2. From my tests of the HZ27WC i found the i1 D2 performed quite well on this screen (several units including an off the shelf ver, LaCie BEP device and NEC device). White point was between 100 - 300k out so nothing massive to worry about at all.

since you arent calibrating loads of different screens of different types, a device like that would be fine. Also no need to worry too much about inter-instrument agreement as thats only a real concern when youre trying to use many different samples on many different screens and they dont end up matching.

good device, compatible with a lot of software as ive said. maybe contact LaCie for their BEP software, or try the BasICColor trial for 14-days if you want reporting and more thorough info than X-rites packages.

Tephnos · 1 Sep 2011 at 17:34

Baddass said:
ok well in my opinion i think you might be best off with an i1 D2. From my tests of the HZ27WC i found the i1 D2 performed quite well on this screen (several units including an off the shelf ver, LaCie BEP device and NEC device). White point was between 100 - 300k out so nothing massive to worry about at all.

since you arent calibrating loads of different screens of different types, a device like that would be fine. Also no need to worry too much about inter-instrument agreement as thats only a real concern when youre trying to use many different samples on many different screens and they dont end up matching.

good device, compatible with a lot of software as ive said. maybe contact LaCie for their BEP software, or try the BasICColor trial for 14-days if you want reporting and more thorough info than X-rites packages.

Okay, thanks.

Yeah I'm not a big fan of X-rite's "calibrate then use this" attitude, without showing me the results in detail. I'll still have my U23's for a while but I'm sure they won't matter.

And you did say there is software to correct that white point being out, if I remember correctly?

Now just to find an i1D2 that isn't massively bumped up in price because of their discontinuation, you can get an i1D3 for the same price if not cheaper from what I'm seeing.

As another matter of interest, I noted at [H] they seemed to recommend the Colormunki, saying that it isn't software locked and works with basiccolor - ever tried that one out?

Baddass · 1 Sep 2011 at 17:58

Quato's iColor Display 3 software has inbuilt generic corrections for W-LED and wide gamut backlighting units when using the software with some colorimeters. apart from with their own range of screens where the corrections are quite specific, they are generic though so you may find it doesnt actually help much when the white point is only 100 - 300k out in the first place. That "correction" may be altering the white point even more than is needed so it may just skew it in the other direction or too much. Remember, by white point i only mean the colour temperature and im sure if you calibrated with a target of 6500k, you wouldnt notice any issues in normal use anyway, even in in reality it was slightly cooler or warmer (and it's normally a little warmer, probably will be ~6200 - 6400k in reality).

and no, ive not tested the ColorMunki myself yet

Tephnos · 1 Sep 2011 at 18:45

Baddass said:
Quato's iColor Display 3 software has inbuilt generic corrections for W-LED and wide gamut backlighting units when using the software with some colorimeters. apart from with their own range of screens where the corrections are quite specific, they are generic though so you may find it doesnt actually help much when the white point is only 100 - 300k out in the first place. That "correction" may be altering the white point even more than is needed so it may just skew it in the other direction or too much. Remember, by white point i only mean the colour temperature and im sure if you calibrated with a target of 6500k, you wouldnt notice any issues in normal use anyway, even in in reality it was slightly cooler or warmer (and it's normally a little warmer, probably will be ~6200 - 6400k in reality).

and no, ive not tested the ColorMunki myself yet

Ah. I see.

I know the colormunki is a spectrophotometer. What does that change compared to a colorimeter?

Edit: Ah, there's two versions. The Colormunki Display is the colorimeter.