+Abhiraj Narsinghia thanks for the feedback.

if you're not into photography or video work or creating stuff to publish you might not need to calibrate

Right.

+klepper00 That's the key reason to calibrate and then leave it plugged in to adjust for ambient at set intervals. I leave mine to measure ambient every 60 minutes and when the computer turns on.

Why do calibrators use Cinema mode? I find it has a yellow tint to it? I like using standard mode because the colors dont look like they have a filter added on to it.

Hugh Jazz Hi Hugh, there is a good chance that whatever "movie mode" you are refering to has too little blue in its grayscale, giving the black and white image under the color a yellowish tinge to it. This is what calibration can fix, among other things.

Calibration will adjust to true color. Your perception of shifted colors will be influenced by the color in your work environment. Change the temperature of lights in the room and your eyes will be tricked into seeing colors on the screen differently. Make a print and you'll find true colors as well.

+CompetaJohn I don't think he dismissed it, he just said he'd never done it. As he said though, if you do prints or work with others etc then it's good to know what you're sending is accurate to life (or as accurate as your monitor/GPU lets it be).

+TalesOfWar If you watch the interview carefully you will see a wry smile as he states, "I have never calibrated my monitor." If it is important for printing, working on different monitors etc., why was it not important when RAWTalk 145 was uploaded? I would just like to know what has changed his opinion and why?

+CompetaJohn monitors generally come calibrated to a certain percentage or sRGB if you want 100% sRGB or even a high AdobeRGB calibration then you either have to buy a monitor that is calibrated to that spec with a certificate stating so, or you have to calibrate it yourself. I'm not sure what the stock calibration is on an iMac retina screen but it may have been calibrated from the factory and not needed it.

+CompetaJohn You have entirely too much time on your hands.

BlahBlahMoose You can't calibrate a monitor to a given colour space, it has to be supported at the hardware level of the display itself and the GPU and OS driving it need to support it too.

Mark Lyell exactly the same thing happened when i tried the Spyder Pro 4 !

You owe it to yourself to create an ICC profile of your monitor in its "uncalibrated" state. Might be what you"re looking for.

generally due to the laptop not being able to use the profile with its on board graphic card

A lot of people think natural colours look bad because they're used to over-saturated images with way too much blue. What the Spyder5 is doing should be very close to correct. Don't blame the tool because you're used to an inaccurate image.

any ips that can get 100% sRGB

I didn't have an issue myself.

+Jared Polin I found the settings I missed (setting gamma and temp) and corrected them. It worked great after that. User error as usual!

Audun Jemtland Just go into the control panel and uninstall the program .

Chhoun Bunleng when ambient light source changes.

Never heard of that idea.

just edit one for calibrated display. if it is viewed from non calibrated display, its the viewer's problem.

Did you figure out a solution for this?

@@ruzainiroosfa6543basically every person in the world is viewing from a non calibrated monitor so jokes on you

+Piotr Dejneka - Fotograf The i1 Display Pro does like exactly the same thing as the Spyder 5. You usually can't change any settings on the display panel on laptops. With an external monitor you can also set custom RGB levels / brightness / contrast during the calibration process. The Eizo does the same thing, just automatically as the sensor is built into the monitor and is able to change the internal settings of the monitor too.

+Dominik Hlaváčik I never did.

+Jared Polin Oh OK thanks ;-)

+Dominik Hlaváčik That's not exactly the best advice. Some monitors are default set to a "display" setting or something way brighter/more saturated than is good for accurate color and tones. If you absolutely can't get a calibration device at least see if your monitor has a default "RGB" setting or "neutral" setting. There are a lot of different things from different manufacturers. Honestly though you can use something like a used Spyder that doesn't have to be the latest version. You don't need the latest Spyder 5 or whatever. I have a Spyder 3. They all basically do the same thing for general sRGB monitor calibration.

+Gijs Westerneng It can be, it depends on your monitor and how you set it up. A lot of people go for the "this looks good to me" settings but that doesn't necessarily mean they're accurate.

An appropriate level.

On strict colorimetric ground, any instrument can "match any monitor to any monitor". That is the naked truth. But how do these numbers translate visually? Different monitor makes, different LCDs, LEDs, colorants, spectras... All hell break loose.

Roger Breton if by strict colorimetric grounds, you mean purely the Kelvin temperatures then I agree, but that isn't saying a lot IRL.

I mean, any colorimeter, ANY, are able to hit the same CIE 1931/2 x,y chromaticities.out of ANY monitors. That's a cinch. But what about the "appearance" of those common calibrated chromaticities accross the said "calibrated" monitors, all of a sudden?

"less capable sRGB"?????? In the digital world sRGB is the standard. Sending to Getty, Adobe Stock etc sRGB is it. Other people viewing your images also calibrate to srgb

Are you still using it now.

Marcos Enrique Ruiz Rivero II How accurate this calibration is depends on the color depth. So the best result would be a good monitor and then calibrate this.

i understand, but what is a good monitor except srgb monitor which are over $1000. would you a samsung or lg 4k is a good monitor? thats what i mean if this color calibrator would take the image to the accurate color level?

+Isaac Kennedy Probably the wrong white point? Normally you would calibrate to D65 (6500K) and that should be OK for most applications, anything else and you might get red /blue cast on your monitor. Don't count on your iPhone screen to be calibrated either ;)

+Evens Lamarre I'll lend you mine! Live anywhere near Toronto? Lol... I'l even do it for you for 20 bucks. :)

+Randy Levine all I'm saying is that Mac screens are close enough for me compared to the mess I had to fix with the cheap dells I've had in the past. I've never had surprises with prints. I live in China btw.

+Evens Lamarre Sorry, I think I replied to the wrong person! ... It's late here. :)

+Randy Levine to be fair I'm from Montreal, Canada. I've just been living abroad for a long time. good night!

+Evens Lamarre Lol! Fellow Canadian, eh? ... Well nice meeting you...Good night.

The software that comes with Pro is supposed to be better, but a lot of people don't recommend using Spyder software whatsever. Use the Spyder calibbrated and download DisplayCAL for free. It's a MUCH more thorough and accurate calibrator software.

+heinz meins well, there are standards out there, like the sRGB. Sure not all monitors are equally calibrated, and there will be differences, but I'd like to think that they're still trying to aim for the same thing/standard. Unless the 3rd party viewer (customer or someone else viewing the picture) monitor is totally off the scale, it would be very good idea for the photographer to have his monitor as-close-to calibrated level as possible, since I assume the other monitors are trying to get into same sRGB , even if somewhat different results depending on the monitors. They aren't completely off the charts unless the user has been twidling with the settings alot. My monitor has a sRGB mode I can select, but I'm sure selecting that mode alone wont be as effective as doing a proper calibration. Regardless, it's probably still better than nothing, as the said sRGB mode restricts any changes in brightness/contrast or color levels, it's been selected in factory.

Hahahahaa

have you tried turning off your workspace lights. I have the most reflective 4K monitor on the planet (Monoprice) and it calibrated it correctly.

Cesar Camacho of course I tried everything and it didnt work. I also calibrated my monitor in the dark. Same story. Macs are not really good monitors for photography if we want to print. The best idea is to by designed monitor like eizo or nec

bruh. this is more comedic than you got credit for

+NicholasG28 to see/edit smoother dark/white transitions

Why are you bothering watching the video in the first place?

Why are you being extremely insensitive to one's disability? Especially on a comment that's well over a year old

Photoshop actually has two color-blindness proofing modes, one for protanopia, and one for deuteranopia, so you can compensate all your images for your particular eyes. This won't work as well as it could without calibrating your monitors first.

+FUEL UNITS Optimus Prime.

+FUEL UNITS zoom. 24-70 equiv

***** hes weak af

The color calibrator is useful basically only for two situations. 1) You do prints. so you softproof the image before spending $2-50 per print. So you get quickly a correct printing out as it was on screen. (this is the essential reason) 2) You have multiple devices that you want to use to watch your photographs and can be color calibrated (accepts color profiles, like televisions don't if not connected to computer). (This is lousy reason to own it but if having multiple computers...) And then comes the bonus round: 3) To see more accurately (like in 90% accuracy) what others who have calibrated their displays, show in their Flickr page etc. But the third one doesn't really work as most doesn't have a calibration tool. Most doesn't have a color calibrated workstation but work in outdoors or in normal room with normal lighting. So the benefits are like non-existing for online use or to view others work, limited for itself when having multiple computers, but essential and really REALLY required when doing printing, unless wanted to get random prints or first order some small samples and then adjust images based the small sample in hand. Point is, No one should expect that others work is done with same calibration conditions, or that calibration is magic that fix all the photos if your editing environment is not calibrated. And no, the calibrator lighting sensor on it doesn't fix a thing. It helps a lot when sun rises at morning and warms up your room, then at middle day it is again different color and when sun goes down and room artificial lights starts casting more and more the green/magenta then it compensates to that. But look like Capture One, Lightroom etc. they are colored neutral as much as possible. because middle gray (18%) or darker gray (64-96/128) allows to see the colors in editing better. But then people have a bright colored wallpaper, table, reflective display that cast colors from room etc. And all those things ruins the color reception, it is like flashlight at night ruining your night vision.