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

[Jamie Pillers]

61-year old eyes, a brand new iMac, and a glass of ice and Kentucky bourbon scored a 7. 🙂

 

[Teus]

I'm "color blind", I fail the dots test. scored a 246 on a classic laptop TFT. especially my blue/purple hue discrimination was low.

I remember I once draw a night scene of something as a kid, people made fun of me because the sky was dark purple instead of dark blue

 

[akalai]

Score: 4
Apple Macbook Pro (2008 Gen.4)
Matte screen with generic sRGB profile (not calibrated).

This test will only really reveal if you have eye problems or a truly horrible monitor.

The computer I did the test on, while OK for general work, needs profiling if I was to begin to use it for photo specific work and then I would still want to check on a better external screen.

 

[jdos2]

"Colors."

Feh.

I STILL don't believe yinz.

 

[nksyoon]

Scored 3 with poorest discrimination in blue-green transitions. Dell 2407wfp 24" widescreen monitor calibrated with Colorvision Spyder.

Better result than I expected.

 

[ThatOneGuy]

I know for absolute certainty that this isn't worth a crap to test monitor calibration. I just scored an 8 on an old dell laptop with an extremely bad uncalibrated LCD. My monitor is so bad that I can't even use the gamma test charts because the different tones of gray show up as entirely different colors. Plus even a few degrees of variation in angle of view drastically changes the picture.

All this does is test the viewer's ability to sort colors, not useful at all for determining how close those colors are to matching some sort of standard.

 

[gavinlg]

I got a 4 on an intel 20" iMac, calibrated with spyder2express.

My downfall - all of my mistakes were in the green-blue transitional areas.

 

[EliasK]

Scored 0
Eizo S1932,
this test has nothing to do with monitors I think, but with the ability to see and process colour in your mind. For some people it is easier for some not so.
Same happens with music tones (my music score in a similar test would be 1000, I guess 🙂 )

 

[ChrisN]

56 on my first attempt, then ran the colour calibration tool again and dropped the score to 36. But I know I am partially colour-blind in the blue-green area, so I'm not too surprised. This is probably why I like B&W!

 

[bobbyrab]

Hey, I got a zero, age 46 and with a 23" mac wide screen which I've never bothered to calibrate, does this mean I don't have to bother?

 

[tensai]

Perfect score on a 5 year old CRT. I'm an illustrator and gotta say I'm happy to find I did alright.

 

[2XLX2]

score: 0
age: 40 [almost]
monitor: 15" laptop compaq nx 7400; uncalibrated [bought march 2007]

i was wondering whether i needed to get a 'proper' monitor to do 'serious' color work. hope i dont. dont have any money for fancy monitors in any case.

 

[matko]

4 noncalibrated 19'' mac

 

[dmr]

Okay, I'll bite ...

Results:

Based on your information, below is how your score compares to those of others with similar demographic information.

* Your score: 3
* Gender: Female
* Age range: 50-59
* Best score for your gender and age range: 0
* Highest score for your gender and age range: 1409

I'm very surprised I did that well. This time it's on an el-cheapo flat screen display. They replaced all of our CRT type monitors with flat screens a while back, and even though I agree with things like the energy savings of 200-some flat screens over 200-some CRTs, I don't think this one has the color nuances that the older CRT did.

Very interesting, however ... 🙂

 

[kully]

979.

I have no attention span.

 

[Stu W]

I scored a 10. According to the scores, it seems that RFF members are far superior than average people.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

3. I have good vision and a good screen. NEC 2190UXi with built in self calibration. It is very nice, though a bit more than I could really afford at the time. I'm glad I got it though.

 

[sepiareverb]

8, on a Powerbook G4 with a no-name replacement screen.

I knew the places where I was wrong, but couldn't discriminate well enough there to correct it. This is a great test, I may try it on a whole lab full of students at work.

 

[DelDavis]

Zero! Cheap Dell monitor that came with the computer. Eyes were inherited.

 

[jeff laitila]

I got a 6

I got a 6

Interesting test.