Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I still prefer a CRT, so I don't yet have a Mac laptop or any other Mac with a flat screen. Instead I use a pair of 19 inch CRTs on a Mac G4 and get very satisfactory color balance and more realistic saturation. I do have a Linux based laptop but don't use it for photo stuff. "Long story short" - I do hope that it works out for you. Jim H. Ball Arche wrote: > I bought a 24" aluminum iMac a week ago and that evening, as I tried to > calibrate the screen I started having problems. I'd pulled up a B&W image > in PS and filled the screen with it, and had Apples calibration software > window open and dragged to the side. I could'nt get things to work. I > opened a full screen white window and saw why: the white point in the > center third of the screen was warm, and the left and right thirds were > cool - a definite pink to blue shift. > > I took it back the next morning and when they replaced the screen, screen > 2 had a blue line running through it. Screen 3 had horizontal bars of > uneven luminosity, which the tech people showed me as being evident on all > of the iMacs on the floor when a white screen was pulled up. You could > probably get away with it working on saturated color stuff, but with B&W > it would be very distracting, for me at least. > > Long story short, I'm getting a new/old stock matte screen 24" white iMac, > plumped with a full ram upgrade, and $200 bucks back. It should arrive > this afternoon, having been overnighted from Louisville. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >