Wanna know how your monitor rates against others? Check here.

Sent Detrimental_hp2335LCD_​Spyder2express.icm

Also, you could have a really top notch graphics card driving a mediocre monitor. This will result in nothing better than onscreen mediocre images.

Be example I've got a pretty decent card that came bundled with the system - has 128MB of RAM on it which is good but not a lot - and when I upgraded to a better monitor I could tell the improved image difference.

snake0ape wrote in post #3087051
Wouldn't you need the graphics card associated with the monitor so as to compare?

sent mine

Sent mine for the Dell 24.

Sent for --- snake0ape_ViewSonic VX2025w_Spyder2pro.icm

DocFrankenstein wrote in post #3083340
In the end I will be able to actually say: "dells have a small/large gamut and such/such cheap model really seems to stand out and this one is overpriced"

Um, not exactly... you'll be able to tell what calibration systems or techniques produce what results and to what extent. However, that will be useless without each individual contributing their calibration process, and at best, others will be able to decide their own personal opinion based on these very uncontrolled conditions.

You're trying to measure different profiles, made by different application or users and in different environments. What you are trying to accomplish can only be done in controlled conditions with the same measurement device and the individual monitors themselves from the same computer and graphics processors. What you are doing is actually a waste of time and will not produce any discernable test results.

What you'll actually be able to say is "Here is Joe's calibration system's gamut... Here is Sue's calibration system's gamut in comparison... etc". You will be able to say "Joe's calibration system gamut reaches further into the greens than Sue's calibration system's gamut", but you will not be able to tell which "monitor actually produces better results" without a controlled environment with a single dedicated testing reference and device/tool.

But as for your first question...

Yes, you will be able to do that.

amonline wrote in post #3093750
Um, not exactly... you'll be able to tell what calibration systems or techniques produce what results and to what extent. However, that will be useless without each individual contributing their calibration process, and at best, others will be able to decide their own personal opinion based on these very uncontrolled conditions.

Yes, people will be able to form an opinion in the end. I am hoping for that much.

I agree with the waste of time.

1) Graphic cards don't matter, as I explained in my earlier post.
2) If the colorimeters are worth their money, then it doesn't matter which one you use. All they do is take some photons and translate it into LAB color space. The more expensive, the better the results, but overall it should be pretty close.
3) What does a processor have to do with it? Nothing.
4) Conditions are controlled. The puck is on the monitor's surface and the lights are "normal working environment"

There will be SOME variation from the colorimeter you use and from the graphics card. But the main difference in the size of the gamut is going to be due to difference in monitors.

If you put a 6K eizo or a NEC which includes the whole AdobeRGB gamut and compare it to a 200 dollar ACER, which one do you think will have larger gamut?

Thanks.

I'm looking forward to the results.

Watch my 30 year old monitor rate up high. I would die if it did. It actually seems to have an awesome color rendition. I have had a lot of monitors, and this junky old CRT I have seems pretty good for image editing.

just pictures Gateway FPD2185W Spyder 2

when will there be some results posted?

grinchy wrote in post #3098229
when will there be some results posted?

After may 6

I am in the middle of exams right now and then I'm off to photograph new york for a couple of days. I don't want to mess up (further) my exam session.

Thanks for doing this. I sent mine for a Viewsonic VX2025wm calibrated with a Spyder 2.