Question about color accuracy (post- calibration)

[Duvan]

I'm reading reviews on Rtings and in the color accuracy post calibration part, to get close to 100% sRGB the brightness is often lowered from say 50-70 to 15-30.
Doesn't the monitor look all gray with that kind of brightness? For general use, do people really use that kind of settings or is it more for photo editing and the likes that you want to use that kind of settings?

I also wonder how good the ICC profiles on Rtings for example would work on another of the same model monitor. Not perfect I guess but it should work somewhat at least?

 

[Duvan]

Thanks for sharing!

Rtings is rtings.com which reviews a lot of monitors. You can download their calibrated CSS profiles.

I personally prefer accurate colors but the sRGB modes seem to decrease brightness to the extent whites look very gray. So I would use that mode but try to increase brightness to some extent. But okay so color accuracy should remain if not overdone?

Anyway I didn't know some apps do not 'respect' the ICC profiles. That makes ICC less useful. And makes sense to use the OCD to adjust colors...?

I was not even aware of the LUT concept. But okay I understand the monitor can have an internal LUT to the GPU LUT? How do you set them? Is it common for gaming monitors to have that or is it more for those made for color editing?