Setting up your monitor?

[Snakes]

Working with solely digital now, I suppose it is important that the monitor is set up properly. Has anyone got any links where I can download some simple software that will allow me to do this to check brightness/contrast settings like you have on some TV's/DVD's?

[Snakes]

No-one seen anything then?

[Bodo]

What exactly do you mean?
I have a digitally connected monitor, and the contrast/colour settings are not available, unless it is connceted on the analogue socket.

There is however a software setting that allows manipulation:

[Edt]

dpreview camera site has this useful lil image:


Ed

[Edt]

hmmm my tft seems a little dark !

Ed

[dcw@pr]

I have found that the only way to really ensure you have it all set up correctly is to use a hardware calibrator, like this one. Probably not worth it though unless you have a pretty decent monitor and are keen to get the last bit of benefit. I always thought there would be a big market for renting out these calibrators for say £20 a week. Better than paying £200 to buy one when you only need to use it once a year or so.

[ehasler]

I don't know about LCD screens, but it's recommended that you calibtrate and profile CRT screens every month or so as they can drift over time.

[dcw@pr]

Really? I will bear that in mind. I don't use the LCD for colour work now anyway, so that isn;t a problem luckily.

[nighthawk]

dcw@pr said:

I have found that the only way to really ensure you have it all set up correctly is to use a hardware calibrator, like this one. Probably not worth it though unless you have a pretty decent monitor and are keen to get the last bit of benefit. I always thought there would be a big market for renting out these calibrators for say £20 a week. Better than paying £200 to buy one when you only need to use it once a year or so.

I thought the same myself. how about you buy a spyder and i'll rent it for a week to set up my tft a little more accurately.

I really need to get a proper icm profile for my screen and then set up the printer to match the onscreen pic.

at the mo, my 960 prints a darker image and I need to set the levels to a far brighter level durng processsing to compensate.

Do we have a PH'er whos a print profile master in photoshop, every attempt I make seems to alter little, especialy at the print preview stage.

[dcw@pr]

Nighthawk YHM

If anyone else is interested in renting a calibrator email me.

[nighthawk]

dcw@pr

Got your mail m8.

Thanks for the offer, let me know your terms and we'll discuss further.

Sounds like a cool offer........as your a photographer, are you sure you want to be sending such a valuable piece of equipment across country as i'm in the north west.

if you could mail with your terms, we'll go further.
I need to sort something because my prints are much darker than both on screen and how I remember the scene.

Regards