[Leica] MacBook display calibration

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Apple has now reverted to offering a matte screen again, but only for 
the 15 and 17" models. I don't know how these compare with the older 
flourescent backlit screens of which I'm using one, but I do know 
that if I ordered a MacBook Pro today it would have a matte screen. 
The latest glossy screens have not appealed to me.

I've profiled my screens with a Spider 2, and while they are 
certainly not of Eizo CG quality, they're at least useable. If my 
work required accurate colour I would certainly get a good wide gamut 
screen. Fortunately it's not that critical, but I do want the gamma 
and step wedges to display correctly.



At 3:14 PM -0400 8/25/09, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>Mark,
>I concur with the suggestion of several people about using the Display
>calibration procedure in the System Preference panel to adjust your new
>MacBook. When you open the calibration program, click on the Expert box. The
>computer takes you through a step by step procedure, taking no more than
>five minutes, to set the display up the way you like it, Overall display
>color and brightness contrast can all be adjusted. Incidentally Apple's move
>to a higher contrast display is to compete with the displays of PC laptops.
>Side by side, the PCs appeared to have more "punch" than the Powerbooks,
>color fidelity be damned. The sales force demanded it. Regrettably few
>salesmen are photographers. This is reminiscent of the war between Fuji and
>Kodak about the color rendition of slide film a generation ago.
>
>Larry Z
>


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