Re: Diplomatic approach to clients with badly set-up monitors

We recently received a new, fully Spectroradiometer-calibrated professional video monitor. When I set it up for playback off one of our NLEs I immediately noticed how much more red was in the Apple Cinema display than the calibrated monitor -- a disturbingly excessive amount. So I got out a Spyder which had been sitting in a drawer and set about creating a calibration profile for the Apple display.

Well it's better, but still has slightly more red than the video monitor. Long and short of this, as far as I'm concerned, is that low end monitor calibration is certainly better than nothing but still nothing which can be relied upon for serious cc work.

This ties in fairly well with a discussion held in this pasture a few weeks ago about whether or not one could "get away" without a real external monitor. It all depends on how critical you need to be. Or perhaps more accurately, how critical your clients are.