[Leica] OT Mac monitor question

[Chris Crawford]

She was lied to. Mac monitors do need calibrated. The built in software
has you calibrate by eye, rather than using a colorimeter. Very
inaccurate. iMacs are the only macs that come with a screen, but Apple
sells screens for Mac Pros and Mac Minis. These screens are designed to
look good watching movies and are not very good for graphics work;
professionals buy dedicated graphics monitors like NEC Spectraview (what I
have always used) and Eizo Coloredge. They¹re expensive; more than most
spend on a computer, but worth it. These screens self-calibrate using a
colorimeter that comes with them.

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On 8/23/15, 4:26 PM, "LUG on behalf of Aram Langhans"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi.  I know most of you are Mac users.  A new member in our camera club
>actually does have a Mac.  She attended a Lightroom workshop I put on for
>the club and monitor calibration came up.  She said she was told by
>someone at the Apple store that a Mac monitor does not need to be
>calibrated.  Is this true?  She said they calibrate themselves with some
>software included in the OS.  I cannot see how that can be without
>connecting some sort of colorimeter to the screen.
>
>Please shed some light on this for me.  Thanks.
>
>Aram
>
>
>Aram Langhans
>(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
>& Unemployed photographer
> 
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