Man, this is such a pain in the butt. I had a meeting with a client a week ago who was conderned about how one of our shots looked on her monitor. I actually thought ALL of our shots looked like crap on her monitor. We talked a bit about calibration but she was like, "I have no control over how this stuff gets presented by the Architects, and they use all different projectors in all kinds of conditions..."
Oh man... Prints I can guarantee.....files? Is there a lowest common denominator? I thought about getting a cheap PC and leaving the monitor at the out of the box settings to preview work on.... maybe putting a second folder of images on the disc entitled "Adjusted for your crap display"
Seriously, though.... when I first calibrated my Cinema Display with my i1 Pro, it had me drop the brightness from 100% to like 40% for a luminance of, what was it.... 120? If all these monitors are jacked up out of the box, then how are the few of us who actually calibrate our systems going to produce files that look decent anywhere else? Even Graphic Designers I work with rarely have calibrated screens..... frustrating indeed
My chromes always seemed to please clients whether they were viewing them with a Macbeth lightbox or a dirty window....
-CB