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Originally Posted by rally
Omaroo,
What did you use to calibrate the CMV's ?
I've had mine for around 3 years at work and at home and have no problems with the reliability or colour but cannot for the life of me accurately calibrate the brightness and dont want to go and buy a $1000 calibration unit if it wont do any better than my $300 SpyderPro.
Rally
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We don't calibrate them at all - well, other than via standard black/white point scales & basic gamma. Here's a good web page on that:
http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/index.html
We calibrate our Sonys because they do our final processing. The CMV's do all the grunt stuff.
Apart from the calibration routines mentioned - I think that there is probably too much emphasis from people on this site who worry about calibration to the nth degree. Unless you are working to publish material in a magazine or book, you really shouldn't need to bother with anything more than what is described above for general daily use. This is all that is really required to produce reasonably accurate colours for the web (that is IF there is anyone out there with calibrated monitors looking at your material to begin with).
If you plan to sell images to people who may use them in print later on then you need to consider this and probably go the whole hog and get a mid-to-high end hardware "calibratable" model. Calibration and profiling of output devices is a messy and difficult business, fraught with inconsistency and experimentation. Our good friend here, Peter Ward, found that out just recently...