Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/25

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Subject: [Leica] MacBook display calibration
From: photobynelsch at gmail.com (Bill Nelsch)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:31:16 -0600
References: <36172e5a0908251732j569ef5aex516fba38157d66a0@mail.gmail.com> <C6BA1411.53846%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark there may actually be something off with your machine.  Take it to the
nearest Apple store Genius Bar and have them figure it out.  You are still
under warranty so it won't cost a nickel.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> > Mark, what may work for on screen display on unknown un-calibrated
> computers
> > through (most) browsers that are not colour space aware anyway, is
> different
> > to what you need for soft proofing for printing.
> > Any laptop screen is in any case a compromise that you need to deal with
> for
> > the convenience of the other attributes you want (eg portability)
>
>
> Yes but this one's a BIG compromise as far as I can tell.
>
> Also as far as I can tell most pictures you see in newspapers and I'm sure
> other media like magazines maybe some internet stuff are done by
> photographers on tight deadlines who edit their takes on a laptop in a
> closest starbucks or other such place with WI-FI and send it in with
> Cyberduck or some FTP server sender.
>
> As we are not barraged by really off looking pictures a laptop might be not
> so terrible. I think most pictures we see on done on very tight deadlines.
> But I'll get a separate screen. It will be my TV. As I don't have one. Its
> been 3 years. I hear they've gone way down in price. Not too big a one.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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