anoldsock
Established
Hey guys, I wasn't sure where to put this, so I put it under photoshop. I just re-installed windows and had to re-calibrate my monitor with the Pantone Huey thingy, and I think my monitor is warmer then it should be. When I look at my black and white photos, or view other people's b+w photos on flickr they tend to be a bit warm. This is different from my previous calibration before i re-installed windows as it presented my photos as being a more neutral b+w.
Will someone with a properly calibrated monitor do me a huge favor, and check my flickr site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpt782) to see if my black and white image comes out a bit warm? Can someone please confirm this for me? I can't figure out if the Huey deivice thingy is malfunctioning.
If you do it karma will pay you back for me.
Will someone with a properly calibrated monitor do me a huge favor, and check my flickr site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpt782) to see if my black and white image comes out a bit warm? Can someone please confirm this for me? I can't figure out if the Huey deivice thingy is malfunctioning.
If you do it karma will pay you back for me.
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tmfabian
I met a man once...
looks fine to me, but I haven't calibrated my monitor in about 4 months...wasn't paying attention when I was house cleaning and stepped on the thing :-(
daveywaugh
Blah
Looks fine to me also - neutral. Very nice pics BTW. My OSX colormeter gives equal RGBs (I know this doesn't always mean things are OK). I use a Colortron to calibrate my monitor for what it's worth ,although recently have been relying more on the inbuilt Apple profiler and use the Colortron to "read" printed values. No expert, but to my eyes they look great.
deepwhite
Well-known
When I first calibrated my monitor, I thought everything too warm too. Then I realized that the monitor was "too cold" before the calibration, too much blue roughly speaking, and therefore when it got calibrated I couldn't get used to it and thought it was too warm.
After one day it looked fine to me.
Your photos look neutral here too.
After one day it looked fine to me.
Your photos look neutral here too.
anoldsock
Established
hmmmm...in my case, I dunno if that is right. I mean my monitor was calibrated before i re-installed windows, and I didn't notice it to be too warm. It's just on this go around, during calibration, I notice the white balance wasn't right, and it came out to be noticeably warmer.
Has anyone have problems with the Pantone Huey?
Has anyone have problems with the Pantone Huey?
yanidel
Well-known
I use that link to calibrate my screen as my Spyder colormeter just screws up my whole computer (Lightroom just hangs up):
http://www.markushartel.com/blog/tech-stuff/screen-calibration.html
What do other members think about it ? Is it a good enough approximation methods in your opinion ?
http://www.markushartel.com/blog/tech-stuff/screen-calibration.html
What do other members think about it ? Is it a good enough approximation methods in your opinion ?
David Goldfarb
Well-known
Looks neutral to me.
dmr
Registered Abuser
The upside-down B&W image looks neutral grey to me. Of course I'm not sure that this is a calibrated monitor by any means. It's a newer flat-screen that they recently upgraded us all to, which does appear to have a sane color response to my eyes at least.