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What Colour Temperature is your monitor set to?

+purmusic
10/13/10 6:34 PM GMT
Default setting of mine?

9300K.


Right, so? What's that mean, if anything at all?



"To get the best results from your monitor, it is important to understand the steps involved.

The first is calibration; i.e. setting your monitor to a well-defined, standard state. You need to select a color temperature to work with.


PC video cards and monitors are usually shipped with a white point set to 9300°K. This gives a bluish tint to everything. It is often used for CAD work stations or in video games where maximum color contrast is desired.

For photography, however, color accuracy is more important.

The next standard color temperature is 5000°K (or its close cousin D50). This is the color of lighting in art galleries, and approximates sunlight. On many PC monitors it produces white colors with a dingy, yellowish cast. For some Macs, it is a viable choice. A better choice is often 6500°K (or D65). Most monitors reach useful brightness levels much more easily at 6500°K/D65 than at 5000°K/D50. Also, some monitors display reddish highlights at D50. Play with your monitor settings and decide which looks best.

If you have an LCD screen and your calibration system allows using the native white point, do so. This preserves the maximum possible color range on LCD monitors."


(Courtesy of: DryCreekPhoto.com - "Monitor Calibration Methods")
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+tbob
10/14/10 6:16 AM GMT
Whatever it was set to when i took it out of the box it came in.Seriously I have no idea.
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.Tootles
10/14/10 1:16 PM GMT
On both my Macs -- D65 (6507 - native white point). No idea about the PC laptop. :-) I don't think I'll wake it from its sleep!

Interesting, though. My old Tiger Mac has more calibration options than my Snow Leopard, which seems to limits me to two Gamma points (1.8 or 2.2) and three colour temperatures.

Edit: Ah... the 'expert' check box wasn't ticked. :-) Now I can change the Snow Leopard's display to all kinds of bizarre configurations...
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.rforres
10/14/10 9:22 PM GMT
Thanks for sharing this! My husband has complained about the blue cast on his PC's monitor. I passed this info along to him.
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+animaniactoo
10/21/10 5:59 PM GMT
Well it also depends. When I was on a CRT monitor, I was *always* 6500, with manually adjusted calibration (using an installable control panel). Now that I'm on LCDs, I generally go for the 9300, and still fighting to make the calibration come as close to the CRTS I used to use as I can. Since I'm no longer doing Color Correction as part of my day job, it hasn't been as important to be persnickety about it.
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.rainydays
01/09/11 10:36 PM GMT
Thanks for the tip!
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+purmusic
12/31/11 9:02 PM GMT
~ le bump ~

To start the new year off on the right creative foot. :o)
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