Hello, all-
Just found this forum, and it's been great to sift through the messages. Hope to be a frequent visitor & contributor.
I've been a bit unhappy with the difference between displayed images on my monitor & those printed professionally. I narrowed the problem to a monitor calibration issue.
I purchased Spyder2PRO, as I found a good deal. My monitor is a Dell E193FP
, which I purchased long before I became interested in digital photography. It has an analog input only....no DVI. I cannot adjust the white point directly by selecting the white point in degrees K, but can only adjust RGB separately.
Now, I plugged in the Spyder, set all to factory defaults, and went through the Spyder's routine. When I finished, the screen still doesn't really match a test print (I used this image, which I had printed at the local lab after telling them to turn off the auto color correction on their printer). Basically, the image on the monitor is still a bit too bright compared to the print....maybe a function of being an LCD, but it's really quite a difference.
In addition, the "white" now appears to have a very slight red hue, which I don't really understand, since when I adjusted the R, G, and B separately in the Spyder's utility, the intensity of each fell into the desired range (my "difference" was about 0.3).
Now the Spyder software suggests that with monitors that only have RGB adjustments (not white point selection), it may be best to NOT adjust RGB & just stick with the factory defaults. I haven't tried this yet, but I'm wondering why I'd even want to use a Spyder if the best option is to just stick with the factory defaults!?
OK, this message has become plenty long. I hope that some of you color management experts can help me out.....do I just need to scrap this monitor??
thanks,
jim
