Setting up monitor

Hi

Just spent a whole day shooting at botanical gardens.


Lots of flowers and animals.


After each bracket of shots I reviewed on the LCD to check results and I must admit that they looked really nice!

Just got home, uploaded to pc and they look crap!

Sharpness is ok but he pics looks washed out and overexposed as opposed to the LCD on the EOS.


Should I be calibrating my monitor to the LCD on the EOS? or is the LCD exaggerating the final image?

I must post process as all images shot RAW


Ian

What monitor do you have?

Benq E2420HD

I also use a 13" MacBook pro.

Post an image?
The camera display is pretty much useless for judging exposure: That's what the histogram is for.

Then again, usually the camera display is too bright…

That is an el cheapo monitor and I would not recommend trying to calibrate it. You should look into a quality IPS or MVA/PVA monitor that will give you accurate color reproduction.

TN monitors, what you have, are notorious for being washed out, bad viewing angles, too bright, etc.

Agree ^^^

The LCD is unreliable and your monitor is unreliable. If you fiddle around long enough maybe you can get them to resemble each other and then they can be unreliable together. Sticking a flower in a pig's ear won't make it Miss America, sticking a weed in its ear won't even make it Miss New Jersey.

tzalman wrote in post #12389824
sticking a weed in its ear won't even make it Miss New Jersey.

You sure about this? I think it would be a tight race.

Ian, like they say, inexpensive monitors are unreliable.

What you can do while you are looking to upgrade the monitor is lower the brightness of your monitor as much as you are "allowed" without turning the display to total mush. That's the least and maybe the best you can do. I do that right off the bat, which lets me "get by" with my little budget laptop. Otherwise, you will be tempted to pull back the exposure/brightness of your actual pics, which will tend to be disasterous once you try to print or view them "on the outside". We here would feel sad to see you posting dark images!