Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/21

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Subject: [Leica] What gamma are y'all using for Mac monitors these days?
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Wed Mar 21 14:19:16 2007
 
After a few years using a couple of generations of the kind-of-okay
Spyder color-calibration gizmos, Kathryn and I have bitten the financial
bullet and scored ourselves a fancy X-Rite (nee Gretag-Macbeth) Eye-One
Pro, hoping to calibrate monitors *and* printers properly.

While doing the monitor recalibration, I looked up a few references and
saw some folk recommending running the display at that nasty dark 2.2
gamma Windows PCs are so fond of using, instead of the Mac-traditional
1.8.  Is this some sort of trend, or did I just run across a few bum
leads?  If one's using proper color-managed applications and tagged
images, should it even make a difference?  The display's target gamma is
encoded somewhere in the profile such that it can be compensated for,
right?

Confused in Jersey City.
Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] What gamma are y'all using for Mac monitors these days?)
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