Everyone! Come in and test your monitor's colour calibration

[haagen_dazs]

hey all
i found this website really useful
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

come on and try and test your monitor's colour reproduction
see if your photos are what you see =)

post your scores.
lower scores = better

i scored a 12

 

[photogdave]

I honestly don't understand how this works!

 

[dougiec29]

11

(most recent macbook)

Although I feel like it has a lot to do with the person taking the test...

 

[haagen_dazs]

just click and drag your squares
line up the squares in the correct colour gradient
if your monitor is calibrated, its easier and you WILL see a gradient
if you dont, thats just bad =(

 

[haagen_dazs]

11

(most recent macbook)

Although I feel like it has a lot to do with the person taking the test...

not necessarily
if the screen doesnt show proper gradients, its impossible to arrange the squares...

 

[blackwave]

That was surprisingly fun

I scored an 8 (closer to zero the better.) I think it's more a test of my brain and eye calibration, though.

*edit* I should add that my monitor is 1) super old 2) gasping for its last breath 3) embarrassingly out of calibration in both color and tone. That seems like relative info for this test though.

 

[Red Rock Bill]

age 65 ....score 8....interesting but I didn't do it over

 

[infrequent]

i got an 8...what does it mean?!

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

 

[Fuchs]

not necessarily
if the screen doesnt show proper gradients, its impossible to arrange the squares...

It certainly depends on a normal color vision! A person with some color vision defect, even incomplete, will not be able to do well on this test. The Farnsworth test we ophthalmologists use to find color vision defects is based on a somewhat similar principle.

BTW, I scored 12 on an early 2007 macbook.

 

[photogdave]

Okay! I figured it out. Scored 8.
I have a two-year-old Samsung 19" SyncMaster 940BW that is (somewhat) calibrated with X-Rite.

 

[dazedgonebye]

7
I should torture my 2 color blind sons with this.
Ok, maybe not.

 

[maelswarm]

Perfect colour vision
Age 24, Intel Duo Core iMac

 

[dazedgonebye]

Perfect colour vision
Age 24, Intel Duo Core iMac

Well smarty pants. Give it 20 years and get a pair of grandpa glasses...then we'll see.

 

[Avotius]

5! good to know my eyes are not as bad as I thought they might be, also my monitor is very well calibrated for printing use so I sort of expected a good result. I thought the third grouping (the blue green one) was the hardest though and that is where all of my mistakes were, there are some very subtle tones there.

 

[mhv]

12, on a 12" PowerBook, which is now about 5 years old.

 

[mh2000]

16... guess I lose... good thing I only shoot b&w!

 

[maelswarm]

There's a trick, move the blocks forward and backward one space to see if the colour brightness changes when you move it. That's how I differentiated the more subtle shades. In the end that's what saved me cuz all the colours started to look the same!

 

[tmfabian]

1...i lost one in the magenta-y area, which makes sense...I always had a harder time color correcting in the magenta range than the other colors.

 

[benmacphoto]

150 on a macbook pro, which I run a huey color calibrator on every time I edit.

But alas I am color blind

 

[mh2000]

PS as the current loser... I want to also say that I kind of got bored with the whole thing halfway through...