Re: Need help interpreting color test results

Ron,

I think we actually are in agreement on this point.

*If* the monitors are very well calibrated, then they will reproduce the
colours quite similarly. The point is that if you are trying your
experiment on an uncalibrated monitor then the results will be incorrect.

Of course, you could use your idea as a way of calibrating your monitor. If
you adjust the monitor so that the results are as you expect them i.e. the
output from the monitor matches the colour mix of the reference image, then
you have basically calibrated the monitor.

It is, of course, vital to this exercise that you don't have the camera
making any adjustments to the colour - you have to shoot in RAW.


Ken


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Take the file of the image you have generated and do your 'photographing
the
monitor' routine using a few different monitors. You will get different
output on each of the monitors unless they have all been calibrated
extremely well.

I disagree, I admit do not know, but I think even two very different
CRTs like a Sony Trinitron and a Phillips using whatever non-Trinitron
gun setup they use, could be set to reproduce color within 1 or 2
percent of each other - and maintain that setup for a half a year or
so.
Ron



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