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Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
So I bought a Spyder3Pro and gave it a whirl on my Dell U2410. While it does make basically all the colors look a lot better, it really bothers me how it insists on on the brightness being 120 cd/m2, which as best I can figure is achieved by setting the Brightness to 0 and the Contrast to 48. Is this the generally accepted procedure to achieve what the calibration software is asking for? I can't help but feel that whites look a lot better at higher Brigthness settings, but seeing as this is my first time with a colorimeter I figure maybe it's just me not used to how things should be normally.

E: Hell could I just ignore the request to set it to 120 cd/m2 and just keep Brightness/Contrast at 50/50 and let the calibration proceed from there?

Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jan 22, 2011

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Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
It was really just that whites, well, didn't look white. I re-did the calibration with the room lights on (thus making the ambient light output recommend 180 cd/m2 instead), and I'm much more satisfied with the result. Only had to set the brightness down to 25 this time.

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