Monitor calibrating

[Lovin]

Happy New Year ! to everyone !

I have a quick question :
How can I calibrate the monitor for my Olympus camera?

Thank you

[tirediron]

You don't calibrate your monitor specifically to your camera, rather you're calibrating your monitor to display the most accurate possible colours. The best possible way is by using a colourometer, such as the Spyder III (http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews/profiling/spyder3elite.html).

[Lovin]

Thank you. :)

[Marko]

T.I. is correct!

In the next few weeks I'll be testing 2 other (higher end) monitor calibration systems as well...and doing a podcast on them.

[Ben H]

Cool - this is one area where I'm *really* not sure about.

Some ideas for the podcast that I'd be particularly interested in - does using a hardware device really offer markedly different results to using the OS's built in monitor calibration routines?

Are the inbuilt routines good enough for general use?

Why do my images look different when I put them onto the web?

Why do my images look different when I print them out?

Is calibration *really* important?

Are hardware systems worth the price, if you're only going to use it once to get a "good" monitor profile? Can't I just download a calibrated profile for the monitor I own? Shouldn't the manufacturers offer this?

Look forward to the next podcast, as always - cheers Marko!

[Mad Aussie]

Our Spyder3Pro (http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews/profiling/spyder3pro.html) Calibration Device arrived today and we set about calibrating our monitors right away.

Great tool. I had my monitors set pretty well apparently, but for the life of us we hadn't been able to get my wife's laptop and her extra monitor calibrated by eye at all. Hence the Spyder3Pro purchase.
After 5 mins installing and running the device, Leanne's monitors both look great now. :)

For those Aussies here, we got ours online from this West Australian site http://www.qualitycamera.com.au/ which got ours to us today here in Brisbane, and we only ordered it yesterday. Not bad at all. Cost $300 incl postage and insurance.

[Ben H]

Hmm, I'd like to get a hardware calibration unit like this, but I kinda resent paying a few hundred quid for something I'm going to use once every couple of years...

[Mad Aussie]

Hmm, I'd like to get a hardware calibration unit like this, but I kinda resent paying a few hundred quid for something I'm going to use once every couple of years...
They reccomend calibrating more often than that. Any time the monitor is moved around or the lighting becomes substantially different apparently :confused:
All I can say is I wouldn't let my wife do ANY photo processing at all on her system before today ... and now after using this device I'm happy if she does.

[Ben H]

They reccomend calibrating more often than that.

Yeah I know, but you know what I mean...

I do quite a bit of things that get professionally printed, and I wing it and am not generally that far out, but it would be nice to get some confidence in my setup. I guess what I'm saying is that I wish the hardware calibration devices weren't so expensive...

[Marko]

This topic will be covered in the Next 2 podcasts. The first podcast will talk about this concept, in an interview with a colour expert and will likely answer common questions.

The podcast after that will review 2 systems that profile BOTH monitors and printers.

The first podcast will be released in the next few days. :fingerscr

Thanks all!
Marko

[Ben H]

Great stuff - will def be looking forward to those!

Thnx Marko