Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] Display Questions
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:32:06 -0600
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On 1/21/2011 12:48 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 Jayanand Govindaraj<jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> We need a much more subdued viewing screen for our tweaking of 
>> photographs. It
>> keeps happening here - if you tell someone that his online postings look
>> flat, back comes the reply that it looks fine on his screen. Of course it
>> will, but on a dimmer, calibrated screen they look awful - and none of 
>> them
>> print anyway, so never are going to accept the truth!
> ======================================================================================================
> This seems a good time to ask how the tones of the pictures on my gallery 
> look to others, in general.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>
>
> I usually make them a bit darker and contrastier before uploading,  to get 
> them to look good when I view the gallery on my screen.
>
> Am I fooling myself that they are decent?
>
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
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They look fine to me (SyncMaster monitor calibrated with Spyder 3 
colorimeter and ColorEyes software on a PC).  It is very reliable for 
soft proofing.   I can see what I think is the added contrast, but then 
I like to print that way anyway.  The ones I viewed seem to have an 
excellent tonal range and really black blacks, but again that is my 
preference.

Ken


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