Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel, Laptops are virtually impossible to calibrate IMHO. You need a desktop with a decent screen - a 19'' Samsung/Viewsonic etc will do, and spend some extra money on a Spyder3 or equivalent. LaCie or Eizo are total overspend for amateurs. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for this. > > It's time for me to update my work-machine at home and I've been > wondering about the screens. > > What is the experience of their laptops screens? Anyone with some > experience? > > Daniel > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:36 PM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I bought a 24" aluminum iMac a week ago and that evening, as I tried to > calibrate the screen I started having problems. I'd pulled up a B&W image > in > PS and filled the screen with it, and had Apples calibration software > window > open and dragged to the side. I could'nt get things to work. I opened a > full > screen white window and saw why: the white point in the center third of the > screen was warm, and the left and right thirds were cool - a definite pink > to blue shift. > > > > I took it back the next morning and when they replaced the screen, screen > 2 had a blue line running through it. Screen 3 had horizontal bars of > uneven > luminosity, which the tech people showed me as being evident on all of the > iMacs on the floor when a white screen was pulled up. You could probably > get > away with it working on saturated color stuff, but with B&W it would be > very > distracting, for me at least. > > > > Long story short, I'm getting a new/old stock matte screen 24" white > iMac, plumped with a full ram upgrade, and $200 bucks back. It should > arrive > this afternoon, having been overnighted from Louisville. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >