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Subject: [Leica] Shiny Screen iMac Calibration Question
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:01:21 -0400
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Marty - How do you turn it off? 

Regards, 

Dick



On Apr 07, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Marty Deveney wrote:

> A few things to watch out for with new Macs - you absolutely need to
> turn off all the monitor calibrating software in the OS before
> starting and you cannot change screen brightness using the settings
> panel.  Otherwise you mess with the calibrations.  Dimming the room is
> very important or you can get reflected room light affecting the
> calibration device.
> 
> Eye One's software for its calibration devices also has some serious
> issues with Snow Leopard.  Serious enough to consider not upgrading OS
> unless you really need to, until it's fixed.
> 
> Marty
> 
> On 4/8/10, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>>> Mark - I'll take a look at some of them when I get home tonight.  The 
>>> only
>>> files I checked initially were from the last year - and, as I mentioned,
>>> Lluis
>>> and Nathan's websites.  It's a good question.
>>> 
>>> One thing I have noticed though, is that after doing the calibration my
>>> recent
>>> images wanted more exposure correction upward and my pictures look
>>> brighter as
>>> a result.  I didn't think of them as being muddy before and no one on the
>>> LUG
>>> said they were, but to my eyes, they now look muddy unless I increase
>>> exposure. g
>>> 
>>> I *really* like they way they look now and that's true of both my color
>>> and
>>> B&W images.  The B&W ones in particular have taken on a snap they didn't
>>> have
>>> before.
>>> 
>>> The pictures I posted this morning were brightened this way.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Dick
>> 
>> 
>> My shiny screen might the whites a bit blown out and the blacks just a tad
>> crushed.
>> Bu the bottom line is I trust Steve Jobs. These are the screens they are
>> making. And Mac as not the first with them LED"s fight for you!
>> I guess if the pix people are seeing on my LUG gallery are all funny 
>> people
>> will say something.
>> Meanwhile I"m cramming on Dreamweaver.
>> 
>> I believe I can make it through the next two weeks.
>> 
>> [Rabs]
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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