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Subject: [Leica] Apple 27" LED Display Questions
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:56:42 +1030
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Why not Richard?  Mine calibrates properly, if slightly less bright
than ideal (112-113 cd instead of 120).

Marty

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> 
wrote:
> To add my two cents: ?I have a 27" iMac and am delighted with it. ?The 
> reflections can be controlled by placement and keeping light sources out 
> of its FOV, BUT it will not calibrate properly with a Spyder or any other 
> calibrator AFAIK. ?I calibrated mine manually using the internal 
> calibrator. ?It takes some time and has to be done with great patience but 
> once done prints from my printer and local processor match the screen 
> nearly perfectly.
>
> I don't know how you'd do manual calibration on a PC.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Marty Deveney wrote:
>
>> The main problem with the Apple screens is that the adjustments are
>> coarse, so if you have a good calibrating device, you either need to
>> have it slightly less bright than optimal or a lot brighter. ?I keep
>> mine about 10-15 cd less bright than the absolute ideal. ?My old Sony
>> Artisan was much better in this regard and the Eizo and NEC screens
>> are too. ?The Apple factors settings are pretty good, much better than
>> most screens.
>>
>> Marty
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:
>>> 2011-01-21-02:07:20 Chris Crawford:
>>>> I had one of the 17 inch NEC crt monitors too, loved it until it finally
>>>> died. That's when I replaced it with the LCD I have now. The NEC lcd 
>>>> screens
>>>> are really cool because they are self-calibrating (If you get it with 
>>>> the
>>>> Spectraview software and colorimeter). The calibration happens in the
>>>> monitor, not by adjusting the video card, the way all other screens are
>>>> calibrated.
>>>
>>> All other screens? ?No, just all screens without internal lookup
>>> tables adjustable to help profile them. ?In other words, toy monitors.
>>> Good monitors have 10- or 12-bit lookup tables which the calibration
>>> software tweaks. ?Good monitors like Eizo, who've been doing that for
>>> years (in their serious graphics monitors). ?"Only NEC", forsooth.
>>>
>>> Here's the good stuff:
>>>
>>> ?http://www.eizo.com/global/products/coloredge/index.html
>>>
>>> ?http://www.eizo.com/global/products/coloredge/cg221/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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