Re: Monitor calibration

["B.G." <smthopr@loop.com>]

> 
> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 10:13:18 -0700
> From: "Gary L. Hunt" <glh@srv.net>
> Subject: Re: Monitor calibration
> 
> I'll stick my nonqualified oar in on a couple of them.  I think any of 
> the monitor color temperature settings will supposedly work as 
> long as Adobe Gamma knows what setting is in use.  (By report 
> the settings aren't very accurate anyway.)  I had my monitor at the
> default, which was 9300K, for a while after I started playing with
> color management.  Then I re-did the whole thing using the
> adjustable setting (to somewhere between the 9300K and the
> 5000K, which looked REALLY warm to me.)  When I used the
> "measure" option in Adobe Gamma, it came back with 6500K
> (which was not one of the pre-programmed choices for me.)
> Frankly it looks pretty cold to me outside PhotoShop, but that
> may be because I also changed my Windows background to
> a neutral gray.

Monitor pre-sets are often inaccuarate.  And they
change with the age of the monitor to boot.

My monitor spec says it's set to 7500k but it is
really at 5000k.  If I set it to 5000k in adobe
gamma, then it comes out at 2500k or something
like that.  And that looks very yellow indeed.

I guess one really needs a puck and calibration
software to really get this right or you're just guessing.
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