Monitor Calibration

spicynuts — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:35:39 -0800

Monitor Calibration Issues - why is my 225 dollar software making my colors look worse? Recently I bought a Greta Macbeth Eye One Display 2 monitor calibration/profiling package for use on my CRT monitor. When I run the software I consistently get results telling me to set my monitor's brightness at around 75%. This ends up totally washing out any black at all and making everything look underconstrasty (if that makes any sense - I don't know what the term for not enough contrast is). This happens regardless of what I set my target luminance at. I've tried settings of 60, 70, 75, 80 and 100 (recommended for CRT) and in each instance I'm told to set the brightness at 75 or 78%. Before the system is even done creating the profile I can tell that the monitor is going to be way off because, as I said, the black immediately gets washed out.

So, my question is, am I doing something wrong or is my software screwed? Here is some more info on my settings:

White Point: 6500K
Gamma: 2.2
Luminance: as stated above, I've triend multiple combos
Contrast: 100 (as determined by the software)

The software has no black point feature.

I work in a mostly dark room. I've used a couple of different test images downloaded from www.chromix.com to look at my end results.

Any advice is appreciated. I've tried the Fred Miranda forums and the Chromix forums and all were dead ends.

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