RE: Monitor brightness setting

Richard,

> Rather than just picking an cd/m2 based on recommendations, I let the
> conditions that are unique to the combination of room, viewing booth
> and hard proof help determine the setting. 
> --
> Richard Booth

Congratulations! You are an astute color manager and practicing what I call
"active" calibration, as opposed to "passive" calibration. The idea is to
iterate calibration using our brain.

This is like bringing a printing press close to some stated aims and *then*
create calibration for it, rather than slapping an ICC profile at some
random condition.

Which reminds me of a LaCie 324 monitor I recently struggled with using
LaCie's own BlueEye ProofEdition. BlueEyePE asks for a target Luminance
level, a gamma setting (one cannot choose 'native') level, a target CCT
level and a target black point level. The software is pretty extensive,
iterating the white point and grays and black. But the result I kept getting
weren't stellar (maybe I have hands full of thumbs?). Anyway, I reached for
my faithful EyeOnePro instead and got marginally better results. Then, I
decided to bring in my Minolta CS-100. I remember putting in a GretagMacbeth
white card in my JUST viewing booth and measuring its chromaticities. The
problem is that BlueEyePE does not really allow entering custom
chromaticities (didn't work for me when I tried, and I have tried). Out of
desperation, I chose a CCT level that, when measured with the CS-100, gave
the closest match to the chromaticies I was looking for; my efforts were
well rewarded.

Had I thrown the towel at what the LaCie colorimeter was giving me I would
have walked past a very nice display. I was amamzed at the color this
display once calibrated to my taste.

I think a lot of color quality goes into the care and extent of calibration.

So, congratulations Richard, once again!

Best / Roger

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