Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I should have mentioned that I do all photo processing using the LG monitor. > On Dec 13, 2019, at 8:18 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net> > wrote: > > Thanks for this, Brian. > > I use two monitors - the one on my iMac and an LG Ultrawide monitor. The > LG comes calibrated, but I still calibrate both monitors using the same > system you do. > > For the best prints, I use ImagePrint BLACK from Colorbyte Software, which > totally overrides the printers profiles, using it?s own which is based on > the printer AND the paper profiles. These also compensate for the > expected display lighting. The BLACK version works only with Canon and > Epson printers. ImagePrint RED is available to work with all printers, > but it uses the printer?s profiles. > > Jim Handsfield > >> On Dec 12, 2019, at 7:52 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >> wrote: >> >> I have never seen any computer display costing less than $1500 (just for >> the display) that came from the manufacturer with anything close to >> proper color calibration. >> >> I have never seen any laptop from any manufacturer whose color rendition >> is good enough that I would use it for serious editing of color >> photographs or producing color-calibrated InDesign files for printing. >> The display hardware used in laptops is just not good enough. Maybe >> someday Eizo will make a laptop, but today they don't. >> >> I have done a lot of critical color work in my life, including making >> museum-grade prints (of other people's pictures), making 10-foot by >> 20-foot color prints for trade shows, producing corporate annual reports >> for a large cosmetics company, restoring faded prints of historically >> important images, and taking pictures of my family. If you want the image >> that you see on your screen to look the same on someone else's screen, or >> look the same when printed on paper, then all of the devices involved >> need to be color calibrated. Service bureaus owning machines that can >> make 10-foot by 20-foot prints want print files with managed color. >> >> This article in Photography Life, about 4 or 5 years old, is the best >> introduction I know of to the issue: >> >> https://photographylife.com/the-basics-of-monitor-calibration >> >> and, unlike most things you see online, its comment section is mostly >> worth reading. >> >> >> This iMac-specific article from mid-2018 goes into specific detail about >> calibrating iMacs: >> https://photographylife.com/how-to-calibrate-imac-and-imac-pro-displays >> >> I am typing this email on an iMac Retina 5K (known in Apple documentation >> as "iMac18,3") that I have calibrated with the i1Display Pro device using >> the software recommended by that author. I don't reverify the calibration >> often enough, but I know I should. I also know I should floss my teeth >> twice a day. >> >> There are certain people on the LUG whose online pictures always look off >> to me. Off-color, off-contrast, off-gamma, whatever. I don't take this as >> evidence that they are bad photographers, I take this as evidence that >> they used an uncalibrated monitor to fine-tune their images, and that >> what they saw on their screen is not what I'm seeing on mine. If I could >> adjust my iMac so that its display matched the display of photographer X, >> I suspect that what I saw would look better. But I can't do that. The >> only choices are to live with wrong colors or to get everybody to use >> calibrated displays and managed colors. >> >> Even black and white images are vulnerable to mis-calibration distortion. >> The luminosity transfer function (which determines the shade of gray >> displayed for a given luminosity value in the image file) can be all over >> the map. Sometimes I see a monochrome image on the LUG that I like so >> much that I try to reconstruct the profile that the photographer must >> have been using so that I can see the same shades of gray the >> photographer does. It's too complex to try to do that with color images. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >