3/19/2023 0 Comments Hardware monitor calibration![]() ![]() ![]() Plus it's a very reliable brand and their customer support and tech support are excellent. The good thing about SV is it's good and more affordable than 3rd party options. Other brands that have LUTs may offer their own proprietary SV equivalent, or may recommend 3rd part equivalent. Some midlevel NEC moniors have built in LUTs, but do not include SV, so then you can (at a later time) buy SV for $90, or buy 3rd party software to do same as SV. Some highend NEC monitors that have LUTs (hardware calibratable monitor) come with SV software included. Mid and highend NEC (and other brands) monitors are available with built in LUTs. This means owning a monitor with built in LUTs, an external colorimeter, and some type software to allow colorometer and built in LUTs to communicate/coordinate, such as NEC Spectra Vision (SV) software, or 3rd party software. The 3rd (and best) method is hardware calibrating the monitor. This is better than the first method you described. The second method you describe is hardware calibration of video card. The first method you describe is software/eyeball calibrating the video card. The only thing you can do with them is calibrate the video card by a software or hardware method (as you described). Monitors without built in LUTs do not have monitor hardware calibration capability. In this scenario you are calibrating the monitor, not the video card. With this type monitor you can then use a colorimeter to achieve best possible results and this doesn't need to be redone as often. I was referring to monitors with built-in color look-up tables (LUTs) as hardware calibratable monitors. For instance, the NEC PA271Q-BK-SV monitor has "14-bit 3D internal programmable lookup tables (LUTs) for calibration." (The "-SV" denotes that this is a package including the monitor plus calibration hardware and software.)įor what it's worth, NEC's definition of hardware calibration involves "making changes to a monitor's electronics" and "requires a monitor with a built-in look-up table."īut you still need a hardware colorimiter to measure the monitor's color characteristics, and to determine the values to store in the monitor's look-up table. Some monitors – mostly high-end ones – provide calibration profile storage in the monitor itself. Without a profile set in Windows, software just has to guess the characteristics of monitor (and will often guess wrongly). Ideally that is created by calibrating and profiling a monitor with a colorimiter, but if the monitor maker profiles a profile that might do. So I guess this one will remain.įor colour management to work (and most photo programs except from Microsoft are colour-managed) you need a colour profile set in Windows. I'm not sure what that means in this context. Hardware calibration allows best possible color depth. ![]() We can compare pretty well two objects in front of us, and say one is more or less red than the other, even if the difference is very slight.Įdited in Later: After some more Googling I found the info. Our relative sense of colour is much better. We can see that something is red, but not in absolute terms how red. Our eyes have only a rather relative sense of colour. You can get a very appoximate tone response curve (TRC) but you can't adjust the white point to a specific value and you can't create a profile this way (needed for any colour management). Software calibration by eye only is not accurate. hardware calibration: using a hardware colorimiter (i1 Display, Spyder etc) and the supplied software from the colorimiter or monitor manufacturer, or third-party calibration/profiling software such as Argyll.This calibrates by eye, without any hardware device such as a colorimeter. software calibration: using the Windows calibration feature (Control Panel -> Color Management -> Advanced tab, Calibrate Display.Just checking we're using the same terminology, I'm assuming you mean: Is hardware calibration better than software calibration? ![]()
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