Is colour calibration worth it?

sid · 30 Mar 2008 at 18:24

I'm getting more and more into photography but unfortunately when I purchased my screens last year, I hadn't taken this new hobby into account.

So basically I have 2 LG226WTQs

These are 2ms TN Panels and needless to say, colour reproduction or viewing angles aren't great. (They were bought to game on and they are good at that)

Despite have two of the same screens, I can notice a difference between colours despite having same settings in the OSD.

How much of a difference will a hardware colour calibration make? Is it worth spending upto £100 on something like Huey pro or Spyder colorimeter? or are TN panels just flawed in this respect?

Would it be possible to get exactly same colours on both screens? This is something which made me upgrade to two of the same screens in the first place!

sid

2 Dell 2408s would be nice but won't be affordable for a long time to come.

sid · 31 Mar 2008 at 10:52

Looking at Badass' review, I've picked one (well two) of the worst screens possible. I'm not sure if there is a 34ms input lag as I've gamed many high speed FPS on it like UT3 which would be hard if there was any?

Some of the Huey's can be had for cheap so I might test it out in any case, cheers

sid

sid · 31 Mar 2008 at 13:22

Sorry badass I have the L226WTQ which seem to have a 34ms lag.

These screens also gave lots of RTC artefacts which i fixed by changing the panel type in the service menu.

Would you reccomend any colour calibration module then?

I've noticed that some support dual displays. Is there any need for buying the expensive ones which do over the standard one and do both displays individually?

I hope that makes sense (I'm looking at the Heuy standard and pro models here)

sid

sid · 18 Apr 2008 at 15:23

nikuls said:
What's the calibration software like on OS X? in all the reviews I can only find people talking about windows. (I'm thinking of getting a Huey)

Software calibration pretty useless for photo editing as it will only look good as your eye can calibrate.

I've used the huey on both Pc and Mac and its very good for the money.

sid

sid · 20 Jul 2008 at 23:12

the standard one is single screen only btw. I'm annoyed about that.

I've not tested the spyder2 but at this sort of price range I doubt the difference will be worlds apart.

sid

sid · 21 Jul 2008 at 21:39

tsinc80697 said:
Ah, that kind of sucks then, was looking to do dual displays otherwise its pointless

Well you need the pro one which is £30 more