Re: Professional Color Correction Monitoring

For truly accurate color correction, the display needs to also be in an environment that is lit properly.

In a room where the displays are balanced to 6500, the lighting should be D65 balanced daylight as well. Since basic LCDs have a cold cathode fluorescent backlight, the daylight balance also happens help a typical LCD to at least function as well as it can when it's calibrated with a probe, and of course, set to 6500.

There are more and more options for LCD evaluation viewing, and not all of them are expensive. The HD Dreamcolor doesn't have an SDI input, but with an HDMI and a displayport input, a good display card or a video card with HDMI output can drive it. JVC's LCD monitors are actually very good for the price, and they have more traditional video inputs. Both of these options are in the $2-5K range and prices are coming down all the time.




TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,