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Subject: [Leica] OT calibrating the screen on a laptop
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (feli)
Date: Wed Jun 22 15:11:50 2005
References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050622153442.064cdd70@mail.comcast.net>
 
On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:35 PM, ernie nitka wrote:

> I was always told that you can't really calibrate a laptop screen  
> but would like the groups opinion - I'm specifically looking at a  
> Mac Laptop - anyone done it.  Is is just the matter of angle of  
> viewing, etc.
>
> ernie


You can calibrate a LCD monitor with something like a Spyder Pro II  
color probe.
The shift in contrast due to a change in viewing angle is one big  
reason why you really can't
do color critical work on an LCD. A compressed dynamic range, as  
compared to a CRT,
is the other problem.

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