Can an LCD computer monitor be calibrated? I had a Spyder Pro2 and went through the whole process three times. Each time, everything turned a not so lovely shade of blue. I gave up and sold the Spyder on eBay. I have since read that you can't really calibrate an LCD monitor.
What's your experience with this?
Thanks.
2007-09-14 17:08:36 · 1 answers · asked by Picture Taker 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
I didn't think about the pressure sensitivity issues. My monitor is "nearly" upright - like about 89 degrees to the desktop - but it was resting on the screen. The directions tell you to insure contact, if I recall, but I had it over a year ago and maybe the LCD issues had not surfaced yet. Thanks.
2007-09-15 07:14:05 · update #1
The Spyder should work on an LCD. There are reviews on the we b of it working well on LCD monitors and notebooks.
LCDs are pressure sensitive, so you need to make sure that the sensor is not pressing on the surface of the screen, or anything for about a half inch around it. Alternatively maybe it was a defective unit.
The colour range of LCDs is less than that of CRTs, which is less than that of what you can see. So while you can calibrate your monitor to produce more accurate colours within the range it can produce there is no way to reproduce a really deep blue, or other highly saturated colours.
It would be very interesting for LCD manufacturers to start publishing their colour gamut figures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_gamut
2007-09-15 02:11:25 · answer #1 · answered by Simon T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋