Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff, every colour management reference that I have encountered says use 2.2 for both PCs and Macs. If screen display is your priority, there are many more Windows systems out there than Macs. How many of those would actually be calibrated is a different story. If prints are your priority, and you are using the system to photo edit, then accurate soft proofing is affected by your setup. One vote here for 2.2 anyway. Cheers Hoppy (PC system) -----Original Message----- FSubject: [Leica] What gamma are y'all using for Mac monitors these days? 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.