This is all slightly above my head, in technical terms, because I have as simple a way of working as I can get; I even have two Brightness settings for the monitor: 42.1% for Hahnemuehle papers and 46% for Jesops! It works very well for b/w but needless to say, colour gets me into trouble a little bit, but I´m mainly into b/w so I put up with it.
However, this display of innocence is not what this post is about. The purpose of the post is to tell you of a strange phenomenon that I have experienced recently.
To set the scene, let me say that I use a single monitor which has a splitter to allow it to function with two computers: one is connected via broadband to the web and the other is NOT connected to the web and it is the one I use exclusively for image working.
Using the non-web connected one, I made a short CD of JPEG images which I wanted to send off to somebody. Playing this CD back on the computer where it was created gives me exactly what I saw on the computer prior to recording; putting the same CD into the web-connected computer, on the other hand, appears to play the CD back with a decidely brownish tinge to the images. These are all black/white pictures.
Can this mean that not only do monitors cause perception differences, but also computers have such an input? In other words, can you really be sure that an image you record and send to another person can EVER look the same, regardless of how well calibrated the screens?
Is this a unique experience or have others found the same or similar? Even more to the point, is there a solution?
Rob C