Monitor Calibration (Page 2): This is such a good site and you folks are always so helpful. It sounds like You can't go wrong with either Colormunki or Elite. I also got input from my...

JustMissedItDon Loc: Carson City, Nevada

This is such a good site and you folks are always so helpful. It sounds like You can't go wrong with either Colormunki or Elite. I also got input from my photo Buddy that the Datacolor Spyderpro is also a good calibrator.

Kearnes Branham

Save your money, use the calibration procedure contained on your MAC. It works as well. Remember to re-calibrate for any significant workspace lighting conditions...

sueyeisert Loc: New Jersey

I once tried to do it on window machine-it's soooo much easier to use colormunki display.

Kearnes Branham wrote:

Save your money, use the calibration procedure contained on your MAC. It works as well. Remember to re-calibrate for any significant workspace lighting conditions...

Kearnes Branham

The keyword is MAC, try it, Macintosh works well for me.

Pkfish Loc: Wilson Wy

Just got a ColorMunki and did the basic calibraition on my 27 inch iMac and epson r3000 and I am getting a lot better prints. I also turned down the brightness on my monitor. I feel that I'm in the ball park now.

csharp Loc: Massachusetts Berkshires

Kearnes Branham wrote:

Save your money, use the calibration procedure contained on your MAC. It works as well. Remember to re-calibrate for any significant workspace lighting conditions...

My monitor is in a room which gets some sunlight. Do you mean that I should calibrate my monitor during a sunny day, and again at night when the room is lit with those ugly compact fluorescents? Then when I work in Lightroom, I should tell my computer to use the appropriate profile?

Blaidd

If you do your own printing, spring for the ColorMunki that does both your monitors and printer. If not then the one that just does your monitor or a spyder3 should work. They say it can matter with the colors of the light that hit your screen makes a difference. I would just do it in the conditions your normally going to work in. I've used the older spyders and bought my ColorMunki when it first came out and don't regret the purchase. I use it on my 15" MacBook Pro and my Epson printer.

slickrock Loc: jacksonville

JustMissedItDon wrote:

I have a 2year old iMac with a 27 inch monitor and would like some opinions on which monitor calibration units work the best.

Price is a consideration, but I would like to consider them all

Spyder 4 elite from B&H.

Lundberg02

SuperCal on an sRGB display is plenty good enough. I think it's Mac only. 25 bucks, no hardware.

Wendy2 Loc: California

Kearnes Branham wrote:

Save your money, use the calibration procedure contained on your MAC. It works as well. Remember to re-calibrate for any significant workspace lighting conditions...

I tried that and it didn't even compare to the results I got with ColorMunki.

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

csharp wrote:

My monitor is in a room which gets some sunlight. Do you mean that I should calibrate my monitor during a sunny day, and again at night when the room is lit with those ugly compact fluorescents? Then when I work in Lightroom, I should tell my computer to use the appropriate profile?

Yes, unless you can provide one stable uniform light source at all times. the light source will influence your viewing of your monitor and the viewing of the color of the prints you are making. That is the essence of color management- stable and repeatable conditions. Did you ever notice that PPA Photo prints are judged using a mix of daylight fluorescent(CR91) and tungsten bulb illumination? The same lighting is used in the color booths of Pro photo labs, which are painted a neutral grey too.

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

csharp wrote:

My monitor is in a room which gets some sunlight. Do you mean that I should calibrate my monitor during a sunny day, and again at night when the room is lit with those ugly compact fluorescents? Then when I work in Lightroom, I should tell my computer to use the appropriate profile?

No, for best results, you should calibrate under fluorescent light, and not even TRY editing during sunlit times. Editing in a brightly sunlit room will drastically change the way you perceive the image on the monitor. And no light should shine directly on the screen.

Dun1 Loc: Atlanta, GA

JustMissedItDon wrote:

I have a 2year old iMac with a 27 inch monitor and would like some opinions on which monitor calibration units work the best.

Price is a consideration, but I would like to consider them all

Macs have a built in monitor calibration under the display setting in the system preferences portion.
If you wish to calibrate your monitor ColorMunki has a tool and software to calibrate your monitor, you can also purchase more deluxe versions that calibrate the monitor, your camera, and your printer by creating specific profiles for each device.
I just received the Color Munki Photo earlier this afternoon, I will install it later and see how it works. I have watched several webinars, and think this might work for me
Here is a link to the Xrite-ColorMunki display software and tool
They also have coupons for $$ off that are valid until Dec 31, 2013, the offer for the Xrite display is $25 off.

jelecroy Loc: Huntsville, AL

I have a Spyder 3 Elite, but I plan to sell it and muy a color Munki. The reason is that while the color Spyder does a pretty good job setting monitor colors, it is not usable for calibrating printer output. The Color Munki PHOTO will do both screen cal and printer cal (basically writing ICMs for your printer/paper choice, so the print colors are as close as possible to what you see on screen.

Kearnes Branham

Colorbyte is my choice of calibration equipment. No hassles, easy to use, saves time,not cheap.