If it looks good, and the same, before and after calibrating with the old
technology, and people on the list aren't whispering about the wacky colors
in your posted photos, then I'd say you're good to go.
That said, I suspect the old CRT sensor won't work with flatscreens, so I
don't think you're getting a proper calibration. The only test would
require either spending money, or borrowing someone else's software and
hardware to see if current technology would make a difference.
I confess to having gone overboard on color management in the past. I
suspect I went to a lot more pain than actually was necessary, but it made
me feel better to know I was adding extra steps to my workflow and taking
years off my life. <g> I also softproofed my images with icc profiles for
each paper I used, and downloaded the profiles from Miller's and Bay for
the stuff I set away to the lab. Did it make any difference? Damned if I
know. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Damn! I thought I was going to learn something profound about calibrating
> flat screens. Well, I guess I did but not what I thought.
>
> Now this is the real Reader's Digest version. I have an old X-Rite
> EZ-Color Suite bought in the land of CRTs. Then I bought my existing Dell
> 24" IPS flat panel screen. Colors looked great out of the box. I applied
> the EZ-Color puck and software and somewhere recall reading/hearing/seeing
> that this CRT thingy might not work so many wonders on the flat panel. It
> did allow me to go through the process but I don't know that anything ever
> actually changed. The color looked good going in and looked good coming
> out. So, I have not a clue whether the ancient CRT era thingy works at all
> or does anything of value. The color still looks pretty good to my eye and
> I haven't been inspired to do anything else. What do you think?
>
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