Cinema Display Calibration

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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
The colors on the out-of-the-box "Cinema HD" color calibrations seemed fine, but I was playing around and manually calibrated it using expert options. The result was something that was a bit darker/richer. I can't decide which one is best. For Cinema Display Owners, which do you generally find that the standard "Cinema HD" color profile is the best?

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    gregmightdothatgregmightdothat Posts: 1,709member
    Keep in mind that when calibrating, you're not trying to get things to "look good," you're trying to get your monitor to display accurate colors. Otherwise, what will happen is that something looks good on your crazy monitor settings, but looks really bland and a little off on everyone else's monitor. Since you're looking into stuff like Aperture, you'll want to avoid doing stuff like this.



    If you fuss with stuff like the gamma correction or color temperature, you'll probably run into this territory.



    I'd recommend doing a custom calibration—different monitors end up a little different, and also, the lighting in your location can affect colors a bit. Turn on expert settings, but be careful with the color adjustments on the right, which is another way to get some really funky color going on.



    I just recalibrated my screen (10.4.7 broke ColorSync for me), and now everythings a perfect achromatic gray :P You have no idea how happy this makes me :P
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    jeffdmjeffdm Posts: 12,954member
    If you are into accurate color reproduction, you might want to consier a Spyder 2 Express or something similar. I've been wanting one myself but haven't gotten around to getting it yet.



    Most displays have innaccurate colors out of the box, often, they are set to look good on a retail display.



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    Originally Posted by gregmightdothat


    and now everythings a perfect achromatic gray



    If you are saying what I think you are saying, I don't think this is possible with any current display tech.
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    gregmightdothatgregmightdothat Posts: 1,709member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JeffDM


    If you are into accurate color reproduction, you might want to consier a Spyder 2 Express or something similar. I've been wanting one myself but haven't gotten around to getting it yet.



    Most displays have innaccurate colors out of the box, often, they are set to look good on a retail display.







    If you are saying what I think you are saying, I don't think this is possible with any current display tech.



    Achromatic gray = neutral gray. Yeah, it's probably not completely perfect, but it's pretty damn close.
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