Laptop Brightness

This may sound silly, but I am editing on my Macbook Pro which is calibrated using a Huey Pro, the only thing I am not to sure about is how bright to have the laptop to help better determine exposure.

It seems as though when I am PP'ing that I am questioning myself despite looking at the histogram!

Any help would be fantastic,

Thanks,

Matt

Does the huey provide a luminance reading? It should as most calibrators do. The correct setting depends on your room lighting as well as the temperature you calibrated to but typical household lights and a calibration at 6500K should have a luminance around 110cdm2. Some like it as low as 90cdm2 and some as high as 120cdm2 but at 110, you should be well within tolerance for accurate prints. You'll never be right for web viewing as there's no way of knowing if the viewer has a calibrated monitor (mostly they don't).

HankScorpio wrote in post #10332110
Does the huey provide a luminance reading? It should as most calibrators do. The correct setting depends on your room lighting as well as the temperature you calibrated to but typical household lights and a calibration at 6500K should have a luminance around 110cdm2. Some like it as low as 90cdm2 and some as high as 120cdm2 but at 110, you should be well within tolerance for accurate prints. You'll never be right for web viewing as there's no way of knowing if the viewer has a calibrated monitor (mostly they don't).

Good advice. I keep mine at 113 and it seems to be a very good balance for varying ambient light.

JH

I'm going to do a re-cal shortly but I don't remember any luminance readings, it did/does take ambient light readings.

It's mostly better to tell it what luminance and temperature you want rather than letting it measure ambient light and choose itself. I'm not familiar with the Huey but it should be possible to make it calibrate to 6500K and 110cdm2.

what color or brightness to set if I work with same laptop home, work or outdoors???
I mean laptops are portable and will be in different lighting all the time.

czynot wrote in post #10338892
what color or brightness to set if I work with same laptop home, work or outdoors???
I mean laptops are portable and will be in different lighting all the time.

6500K with 110cdm2 luminance but be aware that if you have excess glare on the screen, it won't be as accurate as it should be but will be close in most lighting conditions. There are portable hoods available for laptops like this one which I would recommend getting if you have to do critical adjustments outside of a controlled lighting environment.