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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Is this screen calibration rubbish for real 
Mike |
Another angle. There is exactly the same angst in studio audio on calibrated or not monitor speakers whilst mixing, where I have a bit more experience.
The audio industry standard (Yamaha NS10s) are not flash or expensive, but the key is "standard", once you have heard 1000 tunes on them, its the *relative* difference, compared to reference classics that allows knowing when the result is correct, not some absolute measure. Everyone uses them because they all know what they sound like. Some mixing guys cart there own speakers around studio to studio just to have a known reference (for them) if NS10s arnt available.
I recon its the same for displays, as long as you have the basic dynamic range sorted, and have viewed lots of reference images on it, the worse thing you can do is constantly adjust it to some absolute standard, you loose the intuative feel for how things should look based on all the previous images you viewed on it.