RE: [Leica] Color vs B&W Tally

[Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>]

One of the side benefits of getting into a digital darkroom is that it
forces you to address monitor calibration issues early on.  I bought a new
19 inch Viewsonic PF795, purchased OptiCal software and a colorimeter that
sticks onto the monitor glass with suction cups.  You hook up the gizmo, run
the program, and ten minutes later, presto!  A perfectly calibrated monitor.
It's the only calibration product I've ever bought that I'm completely happy
with.  Screen images have never looked this good.

Any photo editor that is running an uncalibrated monitor isn't worthy of
buying your photos in the first place!

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Grant [mailto:tedgrant@home.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 6:48 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Color vs B&W Tally
> 
> 
> Tina Manley wrote:
> 
> >>>>>>>>From some of the comments, I think the differences in monitors
> and/or their calibrations must be more than I imagined!<<<<<<<
> 
> Hi Tina,
> 
> An interesting observation about monitors, as I've seen a 
> colour shot of
> mine on a half dozen monitors in various locations and hardly any two
> are calibrated the same.
> 
> On one, the shot looked so bad, I wouldn't hire me to do horse dung
> pictures! (cows maybe) ;-) On a couple of others I looked so good I'd
> hire me to shoot anything!
> 
> And it's the variations of monitor colour, density, contrasts that are
> so off on some computers, it's amazing photographers selling 
> themselves
> on their ability to shoot colour are rushing to put their 
> images on web
> sites, only to have the images trashed, or nearly so, by off 
> beat monitors.
> 
> I realize this isn't the case with all machines, but the differences
> I've seen scare the hell out of me. Certainly when I think of 
> an editor
> looking at a website of my colour work is going to decide to hire or
> not, on the ability of his monitor to show my images to their best
> advantage?  Now that's a scary thought indeed.
> 
> ted 
> Victoria, Canada
> http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>