Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BTW, B+H and J&R and others seem to be dumping the original Eye One Display monitor calibration device. $65. The latest improved software works fine the with the cheap calibration device. I snagged one and am quite happy with it. I do my image work on a laptop (my beefy boxen are Linux boxes), and setup a CRT (Dell Trinitron) as my #1 monitor (the one that gets setup by the LUT profile, I guess) and count myself among the happy. I hear the the very high end LCD's are good in terms of insensitivity to angle of view and the like, but right now I'm not prepared to spend big $$$$ for a premo LCD. I have a lower end Samsung on one of my home Linux servers, and while it's great for Emacs and Web surfing, well, in layman's terms, it truly sucks for viewing and manipulating images. Scott animal wrote: > I recently got a LCD monitor and use the program quick gamma for > calibration but i cannot get the whole grey scale represented as on my > CRT . > simon jessurun > > >> I've noticed when profiling (I use a CRT, which seems to show >> less grain in B&W scans, more like what will come out on the >> print), there are different suggested luminance (term?) levels for >> CRT's and LCD's. >> >> So is this image highlights disparity likely to persist even on well >> calibrated LCD's vs. well calibrated CRT's? >> >> Scott >> >> pswango@att.net wrote: >> >>> Don Dory wrote: >>> "But then again, I have been trying to find just where zone IX turns >>> into zone X as displayed on the web. I think that there is a cultural >>> divide coming from those of us still using CRT's and almost everyone >>> else using LCD displays. My feeling is that the greater brightness of >>> the LCD is changing what is acceptable in the electronic community." >>> >>> I've wondered the same thing. I use LCD on a newish laptop. A lot >>> of the images posted to the LUG seem (to me) to have blown >>> highlights. Even those from obviously competent photographers, like >>> Don and BD. Some others (Nathan, GeeBee, Doug Herr come to mind) >>> usually look "right" on my screen. Now I'm wondering how my >>> post-processing looks to others. Maybe some of you could take a >>> look at http://pswango.smugmug.com/ and let me know what you think. >>> One gallery is recent color stuff from a trip to DC and the other >>> two are B/W galleries from the distant past that have already been >>> discussed here. All the color is from Walgreen scans; all the B/W >>> is scanned from negatives on an Epson 3170. The color was tweaked >>> slightly for curves in Picasa2, taking care to avoid blown >>> highlights. I'm wondering how it looks on other monitors. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information