SpectraView II and i1 display pro for wide gamut monitor?

[leonard shelby]

Hello,

i am a Photographer and I want to calibrate and profile a NEC PA-242W and a Macbook Pro Retina using the retail Version of the Xrite i1 Display Pro Colorimeter. When i calibrate to a D65 Target Whitepoint the NEC Display looks very greenish to me. I am guessing that's because the retail Version of the iOne Display Pro does not have the corrections for wide gamut Displays when using it with SpectraViewII. Or maybe because i am just used to Macbook Displays and they tend to have a magenta cast?
Anyway, I have tried to set a custom whitepoint in CIE coordinates that visually comes close to a neutral white in SpectraView II. Is that okay to do or can i run into problems when i go for prints? I don't really know what those corrections do, but it's more than just a shift in whitepoints, right?

Alternatively i could calibrate and profile using dispcalgui and use either the factory corrections from Xrite (Spectral: RGBLED HP SOYO <RGBLEDFamily_07Feb11.ccss) or a file from their database (Spectral: NEC PA242W (X-Rite i1 Pro 2) by vitavision.pl) as Corrections and adjust the NEC to a whitepoint/brightness setting manually using the OSD.

What would you recommend?

Also, when i connect the NEC Display it runs in 30bit Mode. And the default LUT in OSX is also 10bit/channel.. has anyone already tried to use Bootcamp on a Macbook Pro Retina and see if it is possible to Output in 10bit in Photoshop?

Thanks!

[digitaldog]

You can try adjusting the green bias in SpectraView's custom white balance options (edit x/y).
D65 may very well be the wrong answer anyway:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/why_are_my_prints_too_dark.shtml

[leonard shelby]

Yes thanks, that is what i have done. I was just worried about the lack of corrections for the i1 display pro when calibrating with SprectraView II. But i have just profiled it using DispcalGui using corrections and the resulting profile seems to be pretty linear. So i'm guessing that whatever the corrections actually do, besides changing the whitepoint it seems to result in just minor adjustments that i don't need to worry about a lot.

Your linked article is an interesting read and i think it just nails it, it's the light situation in which you look at your prints that is important.

[PeterAit]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that SpectraView was an NEC-specific product that could be used only on NEC displays.

[digitaldog]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that SpectraView was an NEC-specific product that could be used only on NEC displays.

The software can only drive a SpectraView. The software supports a number of instruments. The NEC branded Colorimeter can only work with the SpectraView software.