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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: Louie on February 03, 2020, 09:56:46 am

Title: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: Louie on February 03, 2020, 09:56:46 am

I am wondering about the best way to proceed with my aging but reliable CG241W. As far as I can tell it is really holding color quality quite well. At least as indicated by the calibration reports that I get out of ColorNavigator.

Eizo has dropped support for this monitor in ColorNavigator 7. So, do I stay on Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave) so that I can build and maintain profiles with ColorNavigator 6 or do I upgrade to 10.15 and start making profiles with i1Profiler?

What are the pros and cons of each?

tks, louie

Title: Re: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: digitaldog on February 03, 2020, 10:58:18 am

You really, really want to be using ColorNavigator to take advantage of the entire Eizo display hardware.

Title: Re: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: victoria_lightroomqueen on February 03, 2020, 11:13:27 am

The new Basiccolor 6 supports hardware calibration for the CG241W and I've never had cause for complaint with it.

Title: Re: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: Louie on February 03, 2020, 11:45:18 am

Thanks Andrew for the quick response.

Hi Victora, Imagine seeing you over here... ;)

BasicColor  was the first monitor profiling tool I used way back when I first started working with Photoshop and I was scanning my 35mm slides.

Does it build and load the LUT that i believe this monitor uses?

Andrew, any thought on this option?

I did post a feedback to Eizo complaining about  dropping support for this and other older devices. I did suggest that they should at least recompile CN6 in 64 bit to continue support.

-louie

Title: Re: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: victoria_lightroomqueen on February 04, 2020, 12:13:24 am

> Does it build and load the LUT that i believe this monitor uses?

AFAIK yes.

Title: Re: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: digitaldog on February 04, 2020, 10:35:21 am

i1Profiler absolutely cannot control this product like you can with ColorNavigator, including the ability to produce multiple calibrations and profile's, load them into the panel and swap the profile used.

Title: Re: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: victoria_lightroomqueen on February 04, 2020, 12:19:42 pm

Andrew, do you remember whether Basiccolor can do it all?

Title: Re: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: digitaldog on February 04, 2020, 12:20:35 pm

Quote from: victoria_lightroomqueen on February 04, 2020, 12:19:42 pm

Andrew, do you remember whether Basiccolor can do it all?

I don’t believe any software other than that which comes from the manufacturer can do so.

Title: Re: Eizo CG241W on Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
Post by: MauriceRR on February 04, 2020, 05:30:21 pm

Quote from: digitaldog on February 04, 2020, 12:20:35 pm

I don’t believe any software other than that which comes from the manufacturer can do so.

Basiccolor had acces to the sdk from eizo.
As Nec display.
Performances from basiccolor display 5 were outstanding on good eizo and Nec screens, with excellent accuracy, and no primaries problems as i ever found on colornavigator.
Not all screens had the possibility of gamut emulation however, only very high end eizo if i remember well.
If basiccolor 6 runs on catalina and hardware calibration is available, you can expect excellent results imho.