Boathouse Dawn

[Rob C]

It´s one thing to make nice pictures, but it´s quite another to post monitor challenging material that causes great consternation in the breast of the lesser confident!

A ploy to increase the sales of calibration devices?

Rob C

[michael]

Looks good on my screen.  

Seriously though, this is one of the dirty little secrets of photography on the web – a lot of image simply look like crap when they're reduced in size to 800 pixels, reduced in gamut to sRGB, and otherwise massaged for the web.

I used to not post images which were likely to be problematic for viewers. Now I figure that its the viewer's problem, not mine.

And, as for people that try and judge camera IQ based on small web images, well, the less said the better.

Michael

[kaelaria]

Looks great to me!

[NikoJorj]

A ploy to increase the sales of calibration devices?
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No, a good way to show people what they actually need.

[Rob C]

Umm.. before we go ape, this WAS meant to be tongue-in-cheek on my part. Maybe I should have employed one of those horrid little faces to labour the point. That said, I admit that monitors should be calibrated and I have no doubts that the image looks good on Michael´s screen- he would hardly have published it otherwise!

Rob C

[David Mantripp]

Seriously though, this is one of the dirty little secrets of photography on the web – a lot of image simply look like crap when they're reduced in size to 800 pixels, reduced in gamut to sRGB, and otherwise massaged for the web.
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Oh, THAT's a relief!!! I thought it was just that my photographs were plain crap. Now I know it's the web's fault.  Phew.  

[picnic]

It´s one thing to make nice pictures, but it´s quite another to post monitor challenging material that causes great consternation in the breast of the lesser confident!

A ploy to increase the sales of calibration devices?

Rob C
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LOL---I just looked at it with my laptop monitor (I had looked at it with my calibrated monitof I use for photographic processsing).  By george, it does look like crap (I am using Adobe gamma for it because my old Monaco Optic XRe  doesn't appear to have a driver).  I've tried others workarounds, etc.--so I just need to decide whether its worth it to buy a new calibrator just because of the laptop Vista OS or just (as I do now LOL) view images on the calbirated mornitor and continue just to use the laptop just for web browsing and email.

Diane

[Rob C]

LOL---I just looked at it with my laptop monitor (I had looked at it with my calibrated monitof I use for photographic processsing).  By george, it does look like crap (I am using Adobe gamma for it because my old Monaco Optic XRe  doesn't appear to have a driver).  I've tried others workarounds, etc.--so I just need to decide whether its worth it to buy a new calibrator just because of the laptop Vista OS or just (as I do now LOL) view images on the calbirated mornitor and continue just to use the laptop just for web browsing and email.

Diane
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Hey, nice to see one of the girls back again - wish there was more input from all of you.

Rob C

[Rob C]

Michael, have you changed/tweaked anything about the picture? I have done nothing to my screen, but I seem to see more detail in the framework of the shot...

Rob C

[michael]

Nope.

Michael

[KeithR]

LOL---I just looked at it with my laptop monitor (I had looked at it with my calibrated monitof I use for photographic processsing).  By george, it does look like crap (I am using Adobe gamma for it because my old Monaco Optic XRe  doesn't appear to have a driver).  I've tried others workarounds, etc.--so I just need to decide whether its worth it to buy a new calibrator just because of the laptop Vista OS or just (as I do now LOL) view images on the calbirated mornitor and continue just to use the laptop just for web browsing and email.

Diane
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I'm running vista and using the Monaco XR Pro. I'll see I can find the driver that I got from the Monaco site for this. The other alternative is to get ColorEyes.

[Rob C]

Nope.

Michael
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That´s worrying: I have been seeing a sort of wavey pattern happening sporadically towards the bottom of my monitor - a venerable Diamondtron - and I hope it isn´t a warning of things to come. Whilst I still have a monitor, do you have any personal suggestions for a non-CRT type, good enough for image working, that´s about 15 inches wide and not over about a grand ($)? This thing I have is great, if it lasts, but it forces me to sit sideways to the bench and that gets pretty damn uncomfortable. I need something flat to hang up on the wall in front of me. No, not a picture, in case anyone is tempted, a screen.

I know there´s a wealth of material written up about these things, just wondered if you could name something off the cuff.

Rob C

[bcooter]

but it forces me to sit sideways to the bench and that gets pretty damn uncomfortable.


Rob C
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That is the best sentence I have read on this forum in the last 5 weeks.

[Rob C]

That is the best sentence I have read on this forum in the last 5 weeks.

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Glad to be of help!

Rob C

[Peter_DL]

That´s worrying: I have been seeing a sort of wavey pattern ...
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Something seems to be wrong with the IQ here, even for a small jpg.
8x8 blotches are quite pronounced – measurably and visibly (for me).

Peter

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