Monitor color correction

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pixelated

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Pantone (The definitive color standard for all things print) have a new device called a "Huey" which supposedly color corrects your monitor to match their standard palette. It consists of software an a little dohickey that reads your screen and its under $100. Is this the answer to the megabuck monitors I think it is or am I missing something????

Was kinda stumped where to ask this - monitors please feel free to move.....
 
Huey is the cheapest solution Pantone offers. To calibrate accurately you will probably need the 250$ PANTONE Eye-One Display 2
http://www.pantone.com/pages/products/product.aspx?pid=108&ca=2

This is also a very good 350$ product
http://www.colorvision.ch/products/prod_spyder2pro.php

I wish there was a comparison test.

Of what I have read so far (having no valid personal experience that is), providing you have a decent LCD monitor you need nothing more then one of those products to have 95% accuracy. So Color correcting is not a problem.


Andreas
 
pixelated,

If you are calibrating a computer monitor or projector being driven by a computer the calibration using a colorimeter is an excellent method and in the case of my day job, absolutely essential. I am a large format digital printer by trade and I calibrate all the computer monitors, projectors, scanners and printers used in our workflow with an Eye-one and I get extremely close to WYSIWYG throughout my workflow.

Using the Eye-one to calibrate the elements of my video workflow, I calibrate my laptop monitor, editing workstation monitors and my playback projecter. Once calibrated when I capture directly to my NLE I get excellent color monitoring. That said, I can't use the Eye-one on my field monitors directly attached to the analog outputs from my camera like the monitor I use with my camera stabilizer. The filtering/profiling that the Eye-one software generates requires a computer to work. Hopefully this information helps some.

Bob
 
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