If you already have an iMac or Cinema Display, and don’t have a color-accurate monitor, I’d recommend getting a monitor profiling kit like the i1 Display 2 and using it.īased on my experience, most photographers are going to be more than happy with its level of accuracy. Where it fell short was in some of the reds, and subtle magentas. The higher end displays were more accurate, but the iMac was way better than some well regarded but not “color-accurate” monitors I’ve recently tested like the DELL U2410 or the NEC 231WMI-BK. We calibrated to a variety of white points from 5000k to 6500k and compared it to our NEC-2690WUXi2 and a 23-inch Apple Cinema Display (both calibrated to 6500K.) We settled on a white point of 6200K for the iMac, as this gave the closest match to our other displays. So, when one of the WCI staff members purchased a new 27” 3.2Ghz i3 iMac for personal use, I had him bring it in so we could compare it against our other color-accurate monitors. It works out even better if you already own or plan to buy an iMac, because the monitor is just part of the overall computer purchase price.Įven knowing this, I’m always hesitant to recommend buying an iMac for color accurate work because I don’t have the chance to test every model as they are released. That makes a purchase of an Apple display as a color-accurate monitor a bit of a gamble, but at a practical level, you can usually win. Apple can change the displays at any time, so you don’t have absolute certainty of getting a color-accurate monitor. The problem is that Apple does not market these monitors as being color-accurate, like NEC/LaCie/Eizo does, by providing specs. (We use a 23-inch cinema display at West Coast Imaging, and it’s a very accurate monitor.)
In particular, their Cinema Displays and some of the large iMacs (24” and up) have been color accurate in the past. If you have an Apple Cinema Display or an Apple iMac, you probably already have a color-accurate monitor.Īpple has a long history of offering top-grade monitors.
#Aspen creek photo batch order how to#
I’m not running a contest, but I can tell you how to see if you’ve won.
0 kommentar(er)
