Trying to calibrate my monitor. Need Help!

I'm using a Samsung CRT monitor for my photo editing. I just purchased the eye-one calibration tool so that I could get accurace colors.

Well, when I tried to calibrate I didn't get the results I had hoped for. When I did a ambient reading, it said my ambient light temt was 2400K. That seemed a bit odd, so I ran the test a few more times, and I got variances between 2400K and 3400K. However, the 2400K seemed to be the most common result. Ambient light luminance was 40.

When I went to calibrate the contrast brightness, I had to set them both into the high 90's to get them what the EYE One said was the appropriate result.

When I had to calibate the RGB, the target luminance was 87. The best resulting luminance I could get was 72.

I'm all new to this photography and photo editing hobby. However, I'm sure these readings don't indicate I can get good results with my setup. I'm planning on chaning all the bulbs in the room to the daylight bulbs, but I don't think that is going to help with all the problems I'm seeing.

Do I need to consider buying a new monitor or graphics card (or both)?

Any help is appreciated.

Welcome to Color Management !!
How old is your monitor?
The lights in your room should be dim but usable. Standard bulbs are fine.

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Read this
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=296149
Also, read the book: Real World Color Management, Second Edition (Paperback)
by Bruce Fraser (Author), Chris Murphy (Author), Fred Bunting (Author)

After you read the sticky then try calibrating your monitor again.
Sounds like your monitor is drifting, If your monitor is 4 or 5 years old it might be time to get a new one. Or your puck is seeing stray light.

Thanks!

The monitor is about 5 years old, so I gues it may be reaching end of life.

I tried calibrating again, and got pretty much the same results. I then hooked up the monitor to my laptop. Again I had problem. My laptop allows me to edit the color, contrast, and brighness through my graphics card. I played around with it a bit, and I was still having problems keeping the contrast where it was supposed to be. If I get that right, and I moved on to the brightness, it was no where close. If I played with the brightness settings in the video card, I would go back to the contrast check and it would have problems all over again.

It's getting late, so tomorrow I'm going to try and calibrate my laptop monitor. Maybe the one eye device is defective, and hopefully that will identify it.

Good luck.

BrianAZ wrote in post #3230482
Thanks!

The monitor is about 5 years old, so I gues it may be reaching end of life.

I tried calibrating again, and got pretty much the same results. I then hooked up the monitor to my laptop. Again I had problem. My laptop allows me to edit the color, contrast, and brighness through my graphics card. I played around with it a bit, and I was still having problems keeping the contrast where it was supposed to be. If I get that right, and I moved on to the brightness, it was no where close. If I played with the brightness settings in the video card, I would go back to the contrast check and it would have problems all over again.

It's getting late, so tomorrow I'm going to try and calibrate my laptop monitor. Maybe the one eye device is defective, and hopefully that will identify it.

First off: Do not adjust the settings on the graphics card!

If the monitor has a setting for 6500K, try that. Then adjust the R, G and B setting to get an 'okay' in the i1 software. Target luminance should be about 100 cd/m2.
Don't worry too much about the ambient lighting for now.

If a CRT can't reach about 100cd/m2 at 6500K it might be time to replace it.
Otherwise, following these steps should give you a decent monitor profile...

Also, did you remove Adobe Gamma?

Thanks.

Yes, I removed adobe gamma. I only used the video card settings on the laptop to see if it could get where I wanted it.

I tried it again this morning, and rather than using a custom luminance. I set it to get to 100 cd/m2. With brightness and contrast both to 100%, it wouldn't get above 64 cd/m2 with the white point at 65000K. If it set the monitor white point to 93000K, it would get to 72 cd/m2.

The monitor doesn't have adjustments for R/G/B. It can only adjust the white point.

Use it as a secondary monitor then. Nice for palettes in PS...
My 2nd monitor won't go above somethink like 70 cd/m2 either. It will calibrate, but it's a bit too dark. Fine for palettes though...