"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message
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Noons <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I've seen the previous posts onthis subject but most of them are
> relatively old
> and may not reflect what is available nowadays.
> What's the general consensus/suggestions on which spider to use - or
> equivalent
> tool - to perform colour calibration and profiling of a monitor for
> photography?
> Price is not an issue.
Wide gamut or sRGB?
Do you also want to calibrate paper (prints) or only a monitor?
The 'best' solution would be:
- buy a spectrometer *and* a colorimeter (the DTP94 has low
DeltaE differences between copies, Spiders tend to have a rather
high one (and thus can be off quite a bit (8 DeltaE and more,
IIRC, even fresh out of the factory)), from what I have read,
but does need a correction for (each) wide gamut monitor)
- calibrate your colorimeter via the spectrometer (which is
more accurate out of the box and doesn't need (per screen)
corrections for wide gamut screens, but is slower and has a
harder time to read dark colours[1])
- calibrate your screen using the colorimeter.
Additionally many spectrometers can read prints, and with an
xy-table or another automatic device it's quite comfortable.
Since price is not an issue ... :-)
Of course you need to spend quite some time learning what
colour management is and how to do it correctly, whatever you do.
And choose a software that does what you need and gives you enough
freedom. Personally, I prefer argyllcms, but as powerful as it
is (and runs on many OSses), it also has a steep learning curve
(and doesn't handle all hardware)
> My monitor is starting to change too much to often and while still
> satisfactory,
> I find it increasingly needs me to spend half an hour or so calibrating it
> carefully against known images.
Your monitor seems to be failing.
> I need a faster mechanism, last thing I want is to gawk weekly at the same
> image
> for an hour or so!
Well, any way you do it with a colorimeter or spectrometer
will be faster and more reproducible (and likely more
accurate, unless you get e.g. a detuned spider).
A ColorHug (once it becomes available --- and it doesn't do
CRTs, but they're dying out anyway) should be the fastest
method (400 samples in 80 seconds), so you should be done in
a minute or two.
-Wolfgang
[1] Though that can be mitigated by a longer integration
time. However it is rare that drivers actually do that,
for various reasons. Argyllcms does.
If you want the whole package (monitor and printer calibration) see:
http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-pp-spyderstudio.php
Gordo
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