I run Windows so I had the option of the calibrite software and DisplayCal… I played with both. Initially I went with the Display cal profiles that I made and I was experimenting with all the various options to try to assess the impact …The results were okay but felt like a dog chasing its tale…
Then after some reading…I went back. I set my monitor to its default state…I went in and disabled the black boost sharpness etc etc and just ran the simple Calibrite software. I loaded that profile and to me it had the best blacks, color and contrast so that is where I have landed…
I may go back and try Displaycal again but for now I am happy with where I landed…
So for me I just went with the default 120 and that is okay for my room….your monitor should not be the brightest thing in your room…usually you calibrate to standards and try to control your room light but if not then you might need to adjust if you are in a very bright or very dim editing area….
Thank you for the link. I saw that 6-bit color in Windows somewhere but I was confused about it and didn’t want to believe it’s true. That might explain banding I saw yesterday right?
I think I’m never buying anything display related from Dell again
Actually I think some of their Ultrasharp monitors are consistently highly rated but I can’t say how they outfit their laptops… I just got a new one at work…its provided by the university… its a Precision 3480 vPRO…so a decent one with 32 GB or DDR5 and Nvidia graphics and a 13th gen i7 but the screen is nothing to write home about…I just plug it into a dock on my desk and use an external monitor and hardly ever use it as a laptop so maybe it can be configured to look better than what I have it now which is basically the default…
Yes, I agree, I overreacted.
I think I’ll need to pay more attention at display specs next time I buy a new laptop.
Anyways, this is going off-topic now.
Well maybe yes and maybe no about off topic…its probably a bit like garbage in garbage out sort of thing…if you don’t know the specs going in then you might expect some dramatic improvements from the calibration but really its only helping for the most part to get the brightness whitepoint and colors profiled and it won’t make a bad monitor a good one… and if the monitor is not great it will be harder to achieve any decent result. On the other hand you might have a whiz bang monitor and it might actually look okay visually vibrant etc but it might not be that color accurate until profiled…once you get that done you have then harnessed those great specs and made them color accurate …
