[Leica] OT Mac Monitor Calibration

[Robert Rose]

Something I actually know the answer for.  Yes, OS X has a visual monitor calibration facility that does a “good enough” job for monitor calibration, if you don’t do much printing, what you print is at home on a consumer grade printer, you have good eyes, and your monitor is relatively new.  

If you want top notch results, however, you will need to use something like i1 Display Pro and soft proofing in Lightroom.  What you see in Lightroom will look like the print.

I have a blog entry on this topic:
http://robertrose.photos/photo-chips--a-blog/soft-proofing.html <http://robertrose.photos/photo-chips--a-blog/soft-proofing.html>

Laptops screens (even Mac) seem especially prone to error.

Robert Rose
robert.rose at mac.com <mailto:robert.rose at mac.com>
www.robertrose.photos <http://www.robertrose.photos/>

> On Aug 23, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com <mailto: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