[Leica] OT Mac monitor question

[Henning Wulff]

From some people who know: the iMac Retina 27” is extremely close out of the box and stays good; these people generally say it’s not worth doing anything more with it unless you’re interested in using it with a different temperature setpoint. iPads are also extremely good if you use one as a second screen with a laptop (which are generally quite poor). 

All that being said, most monitors need calibration for any sort of accurate work, and most (all?) monitors tend to drift and many can’t be properly calibrated after 4-5 years. Laptops are almost hopeless, in general, because density and colour shift according to the viewing angle. Good monitors are still expensive and still need to be calibrated with a colorimeter regularly. Depending on what you’re doing, YMMV.

Henning




> On Aug 23, 2015, at 13:26, Aram Langhans <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
> 
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> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
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Henning Wulff
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