One can buy a Huey Pro for $110 from B&H. It takes a minute to install, about a minute to run, and then you have a monitor that looks =the same= as any other calibrated monitor. It is vastly superior to software "calibration".
Calibrating a monitor with software is like measuring a car's speed by licking a finger and sticking it out the window. Rick --- Charles Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found an application this morning which has truly > helped me. > > I'd been going batty since switching from my old G4 > Powerbook to a > relatively-cheap 13" Macbook (not the pro model). > > The screen, while I can eventually get over the > glossiness, just had a > washed-out pale look to it, even when the brightness > was dimmed down. > The curves were all wrong. I hated it. > > No amount of tipping the screen back and forth or > running Apple's > calibration tool could help. I was beginning to be > really bummed > out.... > > Along comes this simple shareware: SuperCal. It has > a "wizard" which > walks you through about 12 steps to determine the > proper response > curve for your screen. I don't know if this is any > way to MATCH > colors for printing and whatnot, but I have to say - > it's managed to > give me a screen I am happy to use now. It's almost > as good as what I > had on the Powerbook (although the Macbook screen > still has a huge > variance in how it looks if you look at it from > overhead vs. > "underneath" such as when the screen is tipped way > back). > > Highly recommended for those of you using a Mac who > wonder if they > have it set anywhere near correctly. "Works for > me!" > > http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/ > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
