Do you need a colorimeter to calibrate your monitor? Let’s see if we can make a monitor more color accurate without using a colorimeter.
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Index:
0:00 – Can You Trust Your Eyes?
0:32 – My Favorite Tests
1:10 – Calibrating The White Point
4:47 – Calibrating The Gamma
6:48 – Calibrating The Brightness
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My nightmare..I like to work on an lg 48inch TV screen that gives me glorious colours and contract but i suspect mots CGI buffs will be working on LCD standard monitors. I have an Asus which is such a PIA the arrrse to configure i don’t use it (it’s buttons are the MOST user unfriendly that I have come across) and also a 17in BEN Q..a very old GL2450 and They render results are wildly different…should I configre the Ben Q to look as good as the LG TV ? or vice girl versa ?
thanks alot bro,,,,,,,,
Do not use white paper… white paper is not true white at all. It has blue dye in it.
To answer the question, NO. There is a reason for using a colorimeter.
Dude I’ll get a load of hate for saying this but calibration for simply casual viewing isn’t really that important. Just take a Samsung smartphone especially those older ones like S4/S5 if you still have them and match the image. Some people will say it’s over saturated and whatever but Idc you’ll have the most appealing image and colours anyway especially if you’re using the same OLED technology.
In regards to white point and colour temperature, 7000K is still gorgeous even if it’s kind of a stronger blue. The thing is 7000K is extremely close to D65/6500K which is a slightly less (yet) cool colour temperature.
The thing is that obsessing about calibration is just something you do if you want to work as an artist or really just see the content without any distortion. But most people have always watched media in their smartphones with a slightly distorted blue yet fairly calibrated image in terms of contrast, gamma and all that.