Colour calibration

Diagro

Diagro

Diagro

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hey

I run a Hazro 30" as my main and i have just got a 27" Catleap monitor as my secondary.

When looking at them side by side there is a huge difference in color, and i cant get them to match, I prefer the color on the cat-leap than the hazro.

Is there a way to get them to match exactly? They are both IPS but one is LED and other is CCFL.

What do i need to do this? is there a hardware tool like the Spyder that is upto date with windows 8 that i can use?

I do have a spyder pro calibration tool, but its software wont work with Win8...

Thanks Peeps!
 
You're going to have a very hard time trying to get them to match as the Hazro is a wide gamut screen and the Catleap is standard gamut. The backlights are fundamentally different with no emulation for a smaller gamut on the Hazro sadly
 
I don't think you'd be able to get them looking the same I'm afraid in day to day use as a result of the different backlights
 
My i1Display 2 (now discontinued) works with Win 8. Presumably the updated version is also compatible.

Whether it'll help with two such different monitors I don't know.
 
Mmm the spyder 2 are actually not very accurate as they are not calibrated at the factory, although better than nothing.... You need to calibrate using ICC profiles because the catleap doesn't have any OSD. You should be able to get them similar although the LED catleap will probably always be a bit blue tinted due to the backlight.
 
As Baddass suggested you will not be able to get them matching all that closely. The backlights emit spectrally very different light (hence their entirely different colour gamuts). Without a proper sRGB emulation mode the colours can't be made to match all that closely. This is still the case using a colorimeter, which can only modify the data the GPU sends to the monitor without addressing the colour gamut.
 
It depends how accurate he is talking about... He should be able to get them pretty similar except for the LED being a bit blue. You can download free software that should work with the spyder and windows 8. Although the spyder is not really very accurate compared to other devices.
 
I just want to get the screens to be closer, at the moment if i do some word work on the hazro then look att he catleap its all blue -.- Then my eyes adjust and when back to hazro its gone pink! lol
 
You'll be able to get them to look closer than what they do now using a decent colorimeter, and that seems to be what you want Diagro. The Spyder2 (and indeed Spyder3) isn't too great at handling LED backlights though so you might not get too far with that. To properly compensate for the wide colour gamut and the noticeably heavier saturation that brings to certain colours you would need the Hazro to perform proper transformations (i.e. emulation) which unfortunately it doesn't. And no colorimeter can make it do so either. Even with such emulation you would be left with spectral differences such as balanced blue and 'yellow' region peaks for the WCG-CCFL and just an obvious blue peak for the LED. That isn't really something you can compensate for properly, unfortunately. When you have two monitors with such different backlights side by side, as you do, these things become very apparent.
 
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I cant believe that LED ever actually made it to products... They should have tested it at the factory... Seen the uniformity issues and blue tinting which is impossible to remove... And said "hmmm no this technology is not viable it is worse image quality than CCFL we cant release this" .... But then the marketing man ran into the room and said "but look at how cool the word looks if we put it in a futuristic font LED wooo and look how thin it is £££££"
 
Oh, well I suppose I willl have to live with it for now. I plan to sell the hazro at some stage and get two more 27" ones for eyefinity in tge future.

Thannks peeps, I didnt realise the back light played such a big part :(
 
I have an LED TV and it is not bad I was just saying that it is a bit silly how they released a "upgrade" to the old technology which is actually worse... You can still get it quite accurate just it will always have a slight blue tint compared to a CCFL.
 
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