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• Hi,

  What colorimeter should I buy?

  I’m a bit overwhelmed by the available choices. What would you suggest to buy? It is important to me that I can use it with open source software, so the less hassle it causes with DisplayCAL, the better.

  Color management is completely new to me. Actually, I also have to buy a new monitor (should be 24″), and I want to establish a color managed workflow for photography. So suggestions for monitors are welcome as well.

  For Monitor and colorimeter together, I’d like to stay below 1000€.
  For warranty, I’d rather not buy second hand.

  OS: Linux
  Raw converter: Darktable
  Use case: DSLR still photography

  Thank you very much!
  Stefan

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  On a budget Colormunki display is a solid choice. Do you intend to do prints of your photos?

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  Unless you want to make your own prints your money is better spent on Colormunki display and the monitor. You want to look at wide-gamut IPS displays. I’d start here http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/monitor_panel_parts.htm after you find a size and resolution you like (with <90% Adobe RGB coverage) go to panel search and look for local deals on models using that panel part.

  Do you intend to do prints of your photos?

  Yes, I want to have prints look more like what I see on the screen (or vice versa).

  In that case, a spectrometer is pretty much a requirement, because you can’t use a colorimeter for reflective measurements. But the type of printer also plays a role, e.g. inkjet is more easy to profile (doesn’t drift as much) as color laser, for example.

  Measurement takes longer on on low intensities. Is this true? Is this a problem (I don’t mind if it takes a few hours?)

  It is true that affordable spectrometers (which includes both the ColorMunki aas well as the i1 Pro/Pro 2) are relatively slow and less precise on lower intensities in comparison to a reasonably fast and sensitive device like a ColorMunki Display (even moreso compared to an i1 Display Pro). If this is a problem or not depends a bit on the display technology. Spectrometers usually can’t read as low as a good colorimeter, and this may impact overall precision. I wouldn’t recommend a spectrometer if the display’s contrast ratio is over (roughly) 1000:1. Also, you may have to take the instrument off the screen after a certain amount of time to refresh the self-calibration, which can be a bit of a hassle (you’ll get a prompt asking you to do it).

  How does spectrometer self-calibration work?

  Usually by putting the instrument on a reference tile (often made out of ceramic) and measuring it. In case of the ColorMunki Photo/Design, the instrument has a built-in reference tile, and you rotate the instrument’s dial to “self-calibration” position to do this measurement.

  Oh, I’ve caused a misunderstanding with above statement: I intend to have a select few of my photos printed by a proffesional shop.

  It can be hard or even impossible to match monitor & print if the printing process isn’t tightly controlled by the service provider (unless you talk about contract proofs where this is typically the case). Ask them if they provide print profiles for the type of printer and paper you intend to have prints made on, and ask them about typical deltaE variance of their printing results (you can probably consider yourself lucky if they even know what the latter means).

  wide-gamut display plus colorimeter on the other [1].

  I consider this to be less of a problem because:

  1. Devices like the ColorMunki Display come with (generic) spectral corrections that usually lead to acceptable results, and
  2. The main challenge in a good screen-to-print match comes from having an accurately profiled printer and stable printing process as well as matching the paper white simulated on screen (using softproofing) closely to the appearance of unprinted paper under your viewing illuminant. The former (printer) is largely outside your control if you use a service provider, but the latter can usually be achieved relatively easily with a bit of patience and careful setup.

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• Hi, I’m calibrating my monitor (Acer XF270HUA) using a ColorMunki Display. After reading the documentation, I see it says to use a colorimeter correction for the best results. I imported colorimeter corrections for my ColorMunki Display as well as checked the colorimeter corrections database and found a matching CCMX here. My question is, which one would be the best to use? I currently have my monitor calibrated with “None” correction and using the sRGB settings. It looks great imo, but I wonder if it could be improved using one of the corrections. I’ve noticed that measuring the white point with the three different corrections (None, LCD White LED, AcerXF270HU by 4KM) gives different adjustments. I’ll post a screen shot of each one, note: the screenshots were taken after calibrating my white point to the “None” correction. Thank you in advance for anyone who helps me out and I’m deeply sorry if this has been asked before.

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  In order of preference:

  -CCSS from community and your particular display model (beware emulated gamut CCSS for some widegamuts, it is not your situation), unless it is a backlight type with narrow spikes in spectral power distribution and you have a 10nm CCS (not your situation)
  -Bundled CCSS for yout backlight type (common sRGB WLED for your Acer AFAIK)

  I would avoid using 3rd party CCMX not made by you, or for your colorimeter (unit, not model) and your display.

  So if there is no CCSS for your model, use generic WLED CCSS.
  If after calibration you see some color tint in white (at the center, where you measured), you can use visual white point editor.

  Thank you for the help. I’m confused though, what’s a CCSS? Where would I find a CCSS from the community? Sorry for my ignorance.

  CCSS is a spectral power distribution sample for R,G, B channels and full white (emitted power per wavelegth ~ “number of photons of each wavelength”). With this information since i1d3 colorimeters from Xrite store its own spectral sensivities in firmware is possible to compute an individual correction for each unit on the fly.
  CCSS are “generic” per display model so they can be shared, but this translates to individual colorimeter correction once loaded in displaycal for i1d3.

  If AcerXF270HU is a sRGB only LED display, default White LED CCSS bundles with DisplayCAL should do the job.

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