Shall I take our Spyder monitor callibrator to SGL6?

[Helen]

We've got a Spyder 3 monitor screen display calibrator. I wondered if it would useful to bring it along to SGL6?

Helen

[RobH]

I'd be interested to see how you use it Helen.

I have one and it just makes a complete mess of my laptop calibration.

I tried another at SGL5 just to make sure mine wasn't faulty, but had the same problem, so I assumed that it didn't like laptops and haven't used it again......You must have got on OK with it then?

Rob

[Paxo]

I think there would be a lot of interest if you did.

Steve

[Helen]

Well, actually, it didn't work for Mike either, but like you we assumed it was something with his laptop. I thought at least if other people used it we'd get some value from the purchase!!

Helen

[RobH]

The conclusion I came to was that in order for them to work properly (I had a lot of conversations via email with the manufacturers), you really need full control over the screen you are calibrating, such as you get on high end displays and CRT monitors.

That reminds me....I was going to look for a good CRT monitor on ebay

Rob.

[MG1]

Sounds good....folk could set up different profiles for day, night, under canvass....bet it can cope with red film!

Of course when everyone goes home they would need to recalibrate for their room lighting, but cool gadget.

[MG1]

The conclusion I came to was that in order for them to work properly (I had a lot of conversations via email with the manufacturers), you really need full control over the screen you are calibrating, such as you get on high end displays and CRT monitors.

That reminds me....I was going to look for a good CRT monitor on ebay

Rob.

Doh! We've just recycled 4 large format CRT monitors from the studio. All with split channel BNC inputs. We are now using 24" dell monitors which are great and seem to allow all we need.

Most of the tweaking is actually done by the graphics card not the monitor. If you have anything above the standard you'll prob be fine with settings. A good nvidea or ATI is fine and most are well over spec for Photoshop (which requires little VGA processing) as they are tailored to games rendering. It's only if you're doing serious openGL or fly rendering that you really need the specialist and high end cards.