the imac screen - are they calibrated?

[MossyUK]

Just started to get in to photography lately and am using my trusty gaming PC + dell 24 ultrasharp.

One thing I have noticed is how wildly different the colours are on my dell Vs my 'browsing' screen (a hyundai l90d+, it's old but I love it).

It's left me wondering just how different people are seeing my images to how I see them.

As I am in the market (still) to replace my workstation PC - im just wondering if I get an imac, will the screen be set up in such a way that it could be considered an 'industry standard' / default setup?



cheers

 

[Spyhop]

Probably not. I'm not sure how Apple decide on the default colour profiles they ship but in my experience they're whack!

You'd have to use a hardware device to calibrate to something like Temp 6500K, Gamma 2.2, Luminance 120cd/m^2 to view things in a standard way.

 

[Logsi]

Yeah, they're well off. Going from my monitors calibrated with a huey pro.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Funny that my iMac 24" right out of the box the screen is perfect.

What I see on it, is what i get back when i send off my photos to be printed.

You can't say fairer than that.

 

[Spyhop]

Perfect to what spec?

I don't mean to imply it's super srs-bsns, but I doubt you'd still consider it perfect if you could A/B compare with the same screen after being calibrated.

 

[Adrianr]

They're not calibrated. You may get lucky and have one from the factory that's a close match to your prints but that's all it is, luck. It also doesn't mean it's accurately representing the range of tones and colours the monitor can display.

By 'industry standard' to which industry do you refer? If you mean pre-press then er, no. Not even remotely close infact. Glossy screens are an absolute no-no for real colour accuracy, not to mention any calibration corrections for an iMac take place in the graphics card LUT, a further disadvantage.

 

[Messiah Khan]

They're not calibrated. You may get lucky and have one from the factory that's a close match to your prints but that's all it is, luck. It also doesn't mean it's accurately representing the range of tones and colours the monitor can display.

By 'industry standard' to which industry do you refer? If you mean pre-press then er, no. Not even remotely close infact. Glossy screens are an absolute no-no for real colour accuracy, not to mention any calibration corrections for an iMac take place in the graphics card LUT, a further disadvantage.

And to add to all of that, the luminance is likely to be way too high. The only way to be sure that your monitor is accurate is to use a hardware calibrator.

On a related note, my (well works) new shiny Xrite i1 Xtreme arrived today. The thing comes in it's own suitcase, lol.

 

[steveo]

Funny that my iMac 24" right out of the box the screen is perfect.

What I see on it, is what i get back when i send off my photos to be printed.

You can't say fairer than that.

same here with my 24" imac, the colours were spot on out of the box