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Re: [datacolor_group] HP lp2475w & samsung 226cw difficulties [1 Attachment]

2009-07-07 by Vampire D

I've tried DataColor support, it is much to time consuming and difficult. I eventually gave up.

"Do the actors on Unsolved Mysteries ever get arrested because they look just like the criminal they are playing?"

Christopher



On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, C D Tobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
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On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Vampire D wrote:

> White feels to me like I am looking through a grey mesh, I can't
> think of any other way to describe it, it just doesn't look like
> white, looks off white. I typically do my photography work in
> complete darkness, I do not run lights in my computer room and my
> main monitor is the brightness thing in view by far. If I set the
> brightness anything below say 50 on this monitor, it just looks drab
> and whites "appear" more towards a grey.

As I've noted, there must be something wonky, or whites would appear
white at any luminance level...

Possibly a side effect of being a vampire, that is to say: of working
in the dark. If you drop some high-brightness LCDs down to the
luminance levels necessary for working in vampire/prepress level
darkness (as was traditionally done with CRTs) they may well suffer
side effects that cause contrast and saturation issues. For more
assistance you would need to contact Datacolor Support from our
website, and include as much information as possible about your
display, computer, OS, videocard, what settings you are using
(assumedly DVI, and hopefully not MagicBright) and what settings you
are using in our software, plus which of our products and versions you
are using, and attach an ICC profile that is indicative of the issue.
And as good a description of the result as possible, what you are
offering here may not be descriptive enough. Is this happening at the
OS level? In Photoshop? Do the before and after in SpyderProof look
different? In what way? Does the gray ramp I asked you to look at show
even, distinguishable steps?

Another approach, would be to turn the lights on, and calibrate at 150
candelas, and see if that eases your problem.


C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...



Datacolor
www.datacolor.com/Spyder3



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