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

[Nick Griffin] "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.
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Absolutely!!! I certainly don't rely on computer monitors for much, but it's sure nice when you know they are in fact very close to your known references and to reality, and when you know that they don't generate any strange surprises.

BTW Nick, you should be able to calibrate that Apple Cinema Display in a way that factors out its excess red. While it may never perfectly match a video monitor, if you take your time with a Spyder, you can really fine tune almost any computer monitor to compensate for most color aberrations. But, it can be time consuming to get it just right.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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