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Monitor Viewing Differences?
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Hey there.
Well I thought my monitor was pretty well calibrated. My pictures look on my screen like how they look when I view them on the back of the camera. Yet today I showed two different people my photos (one in the photo industry and one not) and on both of their monitors my pictures looked a little dull and even between their two monitors there were differences again.
I have a flat screen PC monitor (which I’m hoping to replace when I can afford it admitedly).
The photographer friend was using a MAC notebook and my other friend was using a dell laptop.It got me thinking. If all three monitors were correctly calibrated would there still possibly be differences in them?
I hate the thought of my getting my photos to look as good as I want them too and then for some else to see them differently.
On a similar note, on EVERY SINGLE computer I used right across Canada I found the monitors were horribly dark! Anyone else have experience of this?
Pihjin.
I have a spyder2express calibrator
I’m happy with its calibrations
but, at work I have 2 computers with exactly the same screens (NEC 1760VM)
I’ve ran the calibration on both and even after calibration they look VERY different
one looks like I’d expected after calibration
the other one is awful, I’ve repeated the calibration many times but I always get the sameI don’t know what to say
is your monitor calibrated? how? how do you know the other 2 laptops were calibrated?
There are a number of sites that allow you to check basic white and black points-
http://www.displaycalibration.com/brightness_contrast.html
http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/There are better ones than this too-
just can’t find them at the moment-Most monitors are too bright for photo editing and viewing anyway, and will need their brightness reduced-
You’ll probably find that the viewing conditions where the monitor is situated are important too-
You won’t want to set up in a brightly lit room, for example-j
Oh my monitor isn’t calibrated using anything professional… I want to buy the Spyder but haven’t gotten the money for it yet.
Nor do I know if the other monitors where calibrated.My question was just an “if they were, is this still possible” type of question.
I was curious as to if there are fundamental differences in monitor appearances that can’t be attributed to correct calibration of the monitor.
I don’t know much about monitors so I was just hoping to learn.Pihjin
the theory says that after proper calibration all monitors should look the same under the same conditions
in practice that doesn’t happen
but a calibrated monitor will look miles better than a non calibrated one, CRT’s and LCD’s alikepihjin wrote:
Hey there.
Well I thought my monitor was pretty well calibrated. My pictures look on my screen like how they look when I view them on the back of the camera. Yet today I showed two different people my photos (one in the photo industry and one not) and on both of their monitors my pictures looked a little dull and even between their two monitors there were differences again.
I have a flat screen PC monitor (which I’m hoping to replace when I can afford it admitedly).
The photographer friend was using a MAC notebook and my other friend was using a dell laptop.It got me thinking. If all three monitors were correctly calibrated would there still possibly be differences in them?
I hate the thought of my getting my photos to look as good as I want them too and then for some else to see them differently.
On a similar note, on EVERY SINGLE computer I used right across Canada I found the monitors were horribly dark! Anyone else have experience of this?
Pihjin.
I just wrote something similar under one from my pictures. I have acer laptopand and his screen is completely not useful to processing of pictures.
Maybe different users have different sentence.
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