[Leica] glossy screen iMac problems

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

If you're wondering about what the tech guys were pointing out to me as 
being endemic in the glossy screens, bring up an edge-to-edge white or light 
grey screen (either by selecting one as a solid color in the 
desktop/screensaver window of the system preferences or by opening a blank 
'new doc' in PS and expanding it to fill) and then look at it from about a 
yard away. You're watching for horizontal alternating light/dark bands about 
an inch wide.


--- On Sat, 10/18/08, grduprey@mchsi.com <grduprey@mchsi.com> wrote:

> From: grduprey@mchsi.com <grduprey@mchsi.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] glossy screen iMac problems
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Saturday, October 18, 2008, 11:41 AM
> No problems here with my glossy screen.  I do not have any
> problems with reflections, which I find quite remarkable.
> 
> Gene
> 
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com>
> >
> > 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.
> > > 
> > >
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