LaRZ said:
I cant get this panel to display all my colours it says 16.7 million, but is it a true 8 bit panel ?
Yes, it's true 8-bit panel ... natively.
LaRZ said:
Its falling short at the moment when display my photographs, I'm getting colour banding when white balance has been balanced or leave white as is (which is quite yellow, very warm)
to get a non yellow white I have to put the monitor to r = 80% G = 80% Blue = 100% but this screws up the rest of my colours.
Strange visuals you have there. Colours on this monitor are bit on the warm (for me pleasant) side, but not to such extent. As I mentioned to you, your website does look pretty much white (almost alpine white) to me here. OK ... it's maybe bit on the worm side but far far away from what you are describing (yellowish colour banding). Even in case that you don't like the warm colour gamut, you can easily switch to the cooler colour temperatures via monitor colour presets.
LaRZ said:
I've got naviset installed from the CD (and it works) but trying to attach that icc profile appears to do nothing.
When you install the ICC profile in windows (via monitor display properties), it will do nothing much, as far as I could test it. Only when you import the ICC colour profile via Nvidia advanced colour correction options, you will notice the changes. However, when imported from Nvidia display software ... colours are suddenly washed out, so not quite sure what's going on there. Didn't have enough time to play around.
As the side note, I would recommend any user to colour calibrate this monitor. Even at the stock set-up it will produce surprisingly good results, but further colour calibration will give you less colour saturation, colours will have better contrast against each other, text reading via clear type will be better and even the games will benefit from the slightly better antialiasing visuals. When the monitor is properly calibrated, you will really expose it's full potential.
LaRz said:
I feel like Ive spent ages trying to calibrate this monitor, but I just keep coming back to it, wondering why it looks so yellow on the lighter tones. I had similar fustrating experiences with the 2405fpw and colour. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong ?
Did you ever played with the CMY gradient linearity test & calibration method? For example, you open the CMY colour gradients, switch the monitor to native mode, native colour profile and start to play around with the colour correction curve in the advanced colour correction mode in the Nvidia display properties. Of course, you may save your colour preset at any time. You may even try to avoid the nvidia colour correction method and just try the monitor RGB colour tweaking. Sometimes, it's much easier for me to calibrate the screen by using this method, especially the even colours stepping in the very dark range. Also, some users reported good success rate with DisplayMate. Haven't tried this software personally.
LaRz said:
Odd thing is I've set up 30 Philips panels at work and none of them had to be calibrated to be right in my eyes. And my 2005fpw was perfect straight from the box (another Philips panel).
Essentially, 2005fpw and even new Philips are sharing the roots of the same IPS technology, so strictly speaking such massive colour differences are simply strange. AS-IPS panel technology also improved the colour gamut even more, along with the colour reproduction capabilities.
No need for e-mail business (and I don't like pesonally to receive the huge files via e-mail).
