Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: sbpmedia on September 18, 2015, 08:35:16 am
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Hi.
I want to buy a device to calibrate my monitor. After some research I'm in balance between X-Rite i1Display Pro or ColorMunki Photo.
I know that one is a colorimeter and the other is spectrophotometer, I also know that colorimeters are usually better to calibrate screens but some spectrophotometers might be better than some colorimeters ;D
My current monitor is a wide gamut display, Dell UltraSharp U2711.
Considering that for a few dollars more I can get printer calibration also it's really good but my main concern is the quality of the calibration for my monitor.
My question:
It will be a real difference in monitor calibration between this two products?
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it's not really 'just a few dollars'. the i1 is in the low $200's whereas teh CM is low-mid $400's.
That $200 delta buys a fair number of custom paper profiles and you're still ahead of the game.
The CM does a pretty good job in reality although spectrometers tend to be a bit noisy in the darkest shades vs. colorimeters.
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Hi.
I want to buy a device to calibrate my monitor. After some research I'm in balance between X-Rite i1Display Pro or ColorMunki Photo.
I know that one is a colorimeter and the other is spectrophotometer, I also know that colorimeters are usually better to calibrate screens but some spectrophotometers might be better than some colorimeters ;D
My current monitor is a wide gamut display, Dell UltraSharp U2711.
Considering that for a few dollars more I can get printer calibration also it's really good but my main concern is the quality of the calibration for my monitor.
My question:
It will be a real difference in monitor calibration between this two products?
there was a research once = http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/Calibration/MonitorCalibrationHardware.html
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My question:
It will be a real difference in monitor calibration between this two products?
IF you need to only calibrate the display, better to go Colorimeter. Here's why:
http://www.lumita.com/site_media/work/whitepapers/files/xrite-wp-3a.pdf
IF you need to also create paper profiles, then go Spectrophotometer.