[Leica] OT Mac Display calibration

[Doug Herr]

Calibration for print is mission-critical, but one can get close enough without a calibration puck to fool most print buyers.  Start with the Mac eyeball software calibration tool, make a test print using a calibrated printing service (some will even make a calibration print for free), then fine-tune the monitor to match the test print.  This is what I did before I started using the puck and prints sold anyway.  

Yes the calibration puck is more likely to give you a well-calibrated monitor first try.  No it's not the only way to calibrate a monitor.  YMMV.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com


-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 25, 2015 7:53 PM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] OT Mac Display calibration
>
>===On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> The OKC LUG had this on its agenda for its monthly meeting at Earl's BBQ
>> today.   The consensus was that a calibrated color workflow is critical if
>> you are making prints, but for internet it is a crap shoot as to what
>> others may be seeing on their monitors.  If I have misspoken the membership
>> can correct me.
>>
>> Ken
>
>
>You have it exactly right.  Expending a lot of time and money on
>calibration and then casting the image out onto the world wide web seems at
>best excessive, whereas calibration for printing would seem to be mission
>critical.
>
>Of course, as they probably don't say at Earl's, YMMV.
>
>--Bob
>
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