monitor calibration LCD display/sRGB ??

hi !
i am wondering if anyone can give me some tips on how i should calibrate my display on my computer to the most acurate for viewing & working on the sRGB images - jpegs & RAW files from my EOS 350D.
i am using an apple mac G4 titanium powerbook,, LCD display.
In the calibration setup there is a preset for sRGB (2 different types actually) but the sRGB presets both look much more high contrast than the LCD display preset. And darker.. although it does kind of look better i think... it makes the LCD preset look quite soft.

At the moment i am working on the photo's in canon's Digital Photo Professional & Also photoshop CS.

...melissa

Welcome to POTN, Melissa.


Laptops never tend to calibrate that well, I'm afraid - the limited power and size available for the backlight tends to limit what can be done. I have a colorimeter based setup (Monaco OPTIX XR Pro), which tells me that three of the Gretag Macbeth ColorChecker colours are out of gamut on my laptop, a Dell Latitude D600.


That said, it's always worth getting as close as you can. As I'm a Windows user, not a Mac user, I'm not familiar with the choices, but it may be the gamma. sRGB is 2.2 gamma, the old Mac standard was 1.8 - but I gather Macs are gradually moving towards 2.2.

If you are embedding profiles in your files, the colour management system should deal with this, but the most standard set of settings for monitor calibration is D65 (or 6500K if your system doesn't support D illuminants) and 2.2 gamma.

David

Thanks for your help david !