Autor-Archive: Arno Wirtz
A recent afternoon of people watching at Wernigerode Castle certainly seemed to bear that out.
People were spending their time creating memories and also capturing them in their snapshots.
Has there ever been a more democratic device than the digital camera?
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I’ve had a go with the ColorMunki Photo monitor/print profiler and must say I’m happy (so far).
The first monitor calibration of my MacBook Pro looks good.
That’s something I’ve never achieved with the last profiler I used, an older profiler from x-rite with the i1Match software from about a few years back.
So the ColorMunki did well.
The contrast and colour looks good and it seems that the profile is a decent (although not perfect) match for the sRGB colour space.
The profile clips the greens and reds a bit – compared to sRGB – but extends the blues.
I think the clipping is due to the screen limitations of the MacBook Pro rather than the ColorMunki’s capabilities.
So overall the match is fine for non-critical work and to publish to the web.
I uncaged the munki using the NEC SpectraView Profiler 5 software (made by BasicColor) and the profile created is a slight improvement with better gradients and a slightly flatter gamma.
SpectraView Profiler 5 offers a decent report with lots of information re targeted and achieved colour values. It also gives good information re achieved delta e values.
The software uses far more colour patches than the munki software to create the profile, so I assume it would have to be slightly more accurate.
According to the SpectraView Profiler software the munki hardware did well as a measuring device.
The ColorMunki software is too limited to offer much post-calibration and profiling information. But it’s a consumer product, not a full professional device, so that’s to be expected.
It’s targeted at the kind of user who wants a nicely balanced screen, but doesn’t have enough technical knowledge to understand much of the data that gets generated during monitor calibration.
I’ll probably upgrade to the BasicColor Display 5 software (same as the re-batched NEC version) and live happily ever after.
I might also get something like the NEC Spectraview 241 monitor – with extended color gamut – for colour critical work. This has the (re-batched BasicColor Display 5) software supplied as part of the package.
To sum it up.
Happy with the tool as a monitor calibrator as is, but still happier when combining it with more sophisticated software.
If it does this well when creating printer profiles than it’s a worth while investment for the photographer who needs a good match between display and output.
As a bonus, the device is roughly NZ$600 here in Germany and that’s a lot cheaper than what it goes for in NZ.
So in this case, paying peanuts and getting a munki is a good thing.
