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

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Subject: [Leica] MacBook display calibration
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:36:24 -0700
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On Aug 25, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Bill Nelsch wrote:

> 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.


and you will talk circles around them...you may just walk out of there  
a very happy man...


Steve


>
> 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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warm regards, Steve
steve.barbour at gmail.com










In reply to: Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] MacBook display calibration)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] MacBook display calibration)
Message from photobynelsch at gmail.com (Bill Nelsch) ([Leica] MacBook display calibration)