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I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with
"free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. |
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newshound wrote: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. undo whatever you did and don't use some random website to calibrate your display again. |
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nospam wrote: In article , newshound wrote: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. undo whatever you did and don't use some random website to calibrate your display again. I think that there is a tool in W10 for calibrating the display by eye... Anyways: If you are spending more than £500 on your camera AND display then: https://www.parkcameras.com/p/V15870...x-rite/colormu nki-smile or something... If you're "savy" some extra features might be unleashed from this and other calibration hardware by this free softwa https://displaycal.net/#instruments -- teleportation kills |
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On 5/15/2017 3:05 PM, android wrote:
In article , I think that there is a tool in W10 for calibrating the display by eye... Anyways: If you are spending more than £500 on your camera AND display then: https://www.parkcameras.com/p/V15870...x-rite/colormu nki-smile Thanks for the suggestion, and the price doesn't seem unreasonable, but I have been using cameras for long enough to know that most of the nice "must have" gadgets won't actually make any real difference. I didn't know about the W10 tool, I am currently using the settings from that. or something... If you're "savy" some extra features might be unleashed from this and other calibration hardware by this free softwa https://displaycal.net/#instruments |
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In article ,
newshound wrote: I think that there is a tool in W10 for calibrating the display by eye... Anyways: If you are spending more than £500 on your camera AND display then: https://www.parkcameras.com/p/V15870...x-rite/colormu nki-smile Thanks for the suggestion, and the price doesn't seem unreasonable, but I have been using cameras for long enough to know that most of the nice "must have" gadgets won't actually make any real difference. a properly calibrated display *does* make a difference. a very big difference. in other words, such 'gadgets' are *well* worth the price. |
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nospam wrote:
In article , newshound wrote: I think that there is a tool in W10 for calibrating the display by eye... Anyways: If you are spending more than £500 on your camera AND display then: https://www.parkcameras.com/p/V15870...x-rite/colormu nki-smile Thanks for the suggestion, and the price doesn't seem unreasonable, but I have been using cameras for long enough to know that most of the nice "must have" gadgets won't actually make any real difference. a properly calibrated display *does* make a difference. a very big difference. in other words, such 'gadgets' are *well* worth the price. Accurate monitor calibration is only really necessary for pro use where colours have to match. For the general photographer as long as your pictures look pretty much the same on a range of devices then you're pretty much good to go. If you want to print easily to match what you see then creating a profile for your paper and ink combination is the thing to do. -- sid |
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On 5/16/2017 11:56 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , newshound wrote: I think that there is a tool in W10 for calibrating the display by eye... Anyways: If you are spending more than £500 on your camera AND display then: https://www.parkcameras.com/p/V15870...x-rite/colormu nki-smile Thanks for the suggestion, and the price doesn't seem unreasonable, but I have been using cameras for long enough to know that most of the nice "must have" gadgets won't actually make any real difference. a properly calibrated display *does* make a difference. a very big difference. in other words, such 'gadgets' are *well* worth the price. Total and complete agreement. -- PeterN |
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On 5/15/2017 2:18 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , newshound wrote: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. undo whatever you did and don't use some random website to calibrate your display again. Not "some random website". With a bit of experience, it is not too difficult to identify ones which seem to be covering the bases well. And I picked two which were clearly independent, and got similar results from both. I'm currently using settings from the Win 10 tool. A little "brighter" than my original manual settings, but better for text than the previous sites. |
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In article ,
newshound wrote: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. undo whatever you did and don't use some random website to calibrate your display again. Not "some random website". With a bit of experience, it is not too difficult to identify ones which seem to be covering the bases well. And I picked two which were clearly independent, and got similar results from both. yes some random website. you never mentioned which one and there are *way* too many variables for a web site calibrator to work properly anyway. worthless would be a better term. I'm currently using settings from the Win 10 tool. A little "brighter" than my original manual settings, but better for text than the previous sites. it will be better than some random web site but your display is still not calibrated properly. |
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newshound:
I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. Your Mac's built-in calibration utility System Preferences Displays will do an excellent job of calibrating your display. -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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