HP LP2475W Owners Thread

I have a question for the HP LP2475w owners regarding the calibration of the device.

Currently i use a Huey Pro calibrator to calibrate the display. Will i see real improvements if I purchase the Spyder 3 Pro calibrator?

Suedezu wrote in post #10504318
I have a question for the HP LP2475w owners regarding the calibration of the device.

Currently i use a Huey Pro calibrator to calibrate the display. Will i see real improvements if I purchase the Spyder 3 Pro calibrator?

I cannot recall if the Huey Pro is wide gamut or not. I will assume not based on your question and focus on what I think is the underlying question of "will I see real improvements with a calibrator designed for wide gamut displays". The answer in my experience (and what you read online) is yes.

I perviously had a Spyder 2 Express and when upgrading to the HP LP2475w I thought I better upgrade my calibrator so I went with the Spyder 3 express for cost reasons.

In my comparison there was a dramatic difference. With the Spyder 2 calibration the black areas of images were 'crushed' and lacked detail. They were condensed from several shades of gray into straight black or far fewer shades of grey which caused color banding. That alone was enough to sell me on the new calibrator. At first I thought the info on the Spyder website stating that they did not recommend using anything older than a Spyder 3 was a sales pitch but from a technology and real world perspective is makes sense and holds true.

Hope that's what you were looking for

DigitalOxygen.ca wrote in post #10505155
I cannot recall if the Huey Pro is wide gamut or not. I will assume not based on your question and focus on what I think is the underlying question of "will I see real improvements with a calibrator designed for wide gamut displays". The answer in my experience (and what you read online) is yes.

I perviously had a Spyder 2 Express and when upgrading to the HP LP2475w I thought I better upgrade my calibrator so I went with the Spyder 3 express for cost reasons.

In my comparison there was a dramatic difference. With the Spyder 2 calibration the black areas of images were 'crushed' and lacked detail. They were condensed from several shades of gray into straight black or far fewer shades of grey which caused color banding. That alone was enough to sell me on the new calibrator. At first I thought the info on the Spyder website stating that they did not recommend using anything older than a Spyder 3 was a sales pitch but from a technology and real world perspective is makes sense and holds true.

Hope that's what you were looking for

This was exactly what I meant and what i was looking for: a calibrator that works on wide-gamut displays.

At the moment I am torn between The Spyder 3 Pro and the
X-Rite EODIS2 Eye-One Display 2.

Thank you for giving me such useful explanations!

I use the EyeOne Display 2 with this display. I previously had a spyder2 pro.

I personally like the calibration software from xrite better than what I've seen of the newer spyder.

Can two computers be connected to this display, say one by DVI1 and the other by DVI2 inputs?

Yes that's what I have here. 2 connected.

Excellent, thanks very much!

yeah you just swap it in the menu

I used a Monaco Optix XR to calibrate this and found that there is no differentiation between highlight tones.

Is this a monitor issue? Or a calibrator one?

Any thoughts welcome.

i

IanWorthington wrote in post #10688570
I used a Monaco Optix XR to calibrate this and found that there is no differentiation between highlight tones.

Is this a monitor issue? Or a calibrator one?

Any thoughts welcome.

i

Only anecdotal data, but if you're using the old (and excellent!) DTP94 puck, then I would say it's a monitor issue - at least with your monitor. I also calibrate with one and have no issues. With Lum set at about 90 (using Monaco EZColor), my prints come out 100% excellent on an Epson 3800. Also, when I purchased the 2475, I called xrite and asked if there would be any issues using the puck with an 8-bit panel and they said no - should work fine. Hope that helps.

Thanks CH. It is the old DTP94. But I found that adjusting the brightness/contrast didn't have any effect of one of the slider's positions in the s/w, so maybe I need to upgrade that? Sounds like a call to xrite may be in order.

thanks,

i

Would you say this monitor is showing pink on the right side as well, it looks like it to me and I tried the suggestions above to verify it. This is the second time I replaced it and will need to contact them for a third.

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Got 4 replacements to this monitor until they finally sent me a new one, it still isn't perfect but a lot better than the replacements. Support for this monitor is very bad. I also can't get it to calibrate with a Spyder 3 Pro, constantly gives me color casts even with 2.2 Native.

Because that particular model has been out for several years while HP has introduced many new models, I would demand they replace it with a newer model.

I've had this monitor for almost a year now and I have yet to get it to calibrate well and I can never trust the color on the display. It never quite looked right even after calibrating it 100 times with the Spyder 3 Pro 20 different ways.

I had a lot of problems trying to get a replacement before, I had a spot behind the panel and it took five replacements before I got a usable replacement from HP. Almost 2 months dealing with it.

I've been doubting my photography skills a lot lately, many images just look "meh" when I was expecting a lot more. Yesterday I picked up a new iMac and the display on it is amazing. Images that I thought looked meh (sharpness & color mainly) look amazing on the iMac display. I am running Lightroom 3 side by side and images on my HP are way off in color and I cannot seem to ever get the colors to look perfect when moving the WB sliders. The images not all that sharp, although I do have some that seem to be sharp a majority of the images just had a "meh" feel to them.

I calibrated the HP last night, and the white balance is about 500 temp lower than the iMac and about +7 red. I tried to adjust the white balance to match what I saw for color on the iMac. This was as close as I could get in terms of matching how accurate the colors are. It still looks off but moving the slider it is like I can't find that spot where they are accurate.

The difference in the display is so much that I feel there is something artificial about the Apple display, even my 6400 ISO images look quite good.

At this point, I would never buy another HP display, not after the support I dealt with, the calibration issues, and the fact it just doesn't look all that great. It seemed like such a big upgrade from my Samsung TN display, but after seeing this iMac screen it changes everything.

I am really worried it is just artificial though, like the glossy screen making things look way sharper than they really are, but looking at lots of images and they look like what I expecting from the camera, but when I got them and opened them in Windows LR looked just ok. I am getting to the point where I was considering giving up photography because the more I learned the worse my pictures looked. I've been trying to get really sharp detailed images and was constantly let down with "ok" images. All those images look really good on the iMac display now, there is no question some of it is because the HP display is nothing as good, but how much is what I am questioning.

It is like boiling a frog, if you drop him in boiling water he jumps out immediately, you slowly increase the temperature he will boil to death. I've been looking at it for a while I knew it wasn't perfect but I didn't realize how bad it was until I got something different. $600 on a single display isn't cheap, and the the HP display was the best quality monitor I bought to date, I always bought good monitors never value monitors, but this isn't very impressive at all.