Jan 03, 2006 I just bought the Monaco Optix xr Pro and now I'm wondering if it was a waste of money. I'm sure it's not bc a lot of you here said monitor.

I just bought the Monaco Optix xr Pro and now I'm wondering if it was a waste of money. I'm sure it's not bc a lot of you here said monitor calibration hardware is the only way to go for serious digital photographers.something I'm striving to become. The question is, shouldn't I see some sort of difference on my screen?

Some way to know that their is improvement with color? My understanding is that even before calibrating with a lab's printer profiles (something I haven't figured out yet), I will benefit from calibrating my monitor. I don't see any difference. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks in advance! It would be surprising to calibrate your monitor and have it appear exactly as it did before.

I would mean that either you were incredibly lucky that the setup of you monitor out of the box and the ambient lighting in your workspace were a perfect match. Or that you've not followed the calibration directions correctly and that the calibration has not locked into place. When you created the monitor profile, did you save it by name? And when you go into Display>Settings>Advanced.>Color Management (Windows XP), is that the name of the monitor profile that is displayed and selected?

If not, then you're not running your new profile, and you'd only be seeing the old generic profile. Not sure if I've helped. The way I understand it, there is two benfits. The first is to calibrate your monitor to the best of it's ability.

Set the white point and black points, adjust indiviual RGB colors if possible. Then you profile the monitors as the puck reads the color your monitor displays and compares that against the values it expects. When you look at an image in a color managed environment such as in photoshop the colors you see will be adjusted for the individual quirks of the monitor. When I soft proof now after calibration I am no longer suprised by what is in the final print.

I didn't notice a huge difference in my monitors normal appearance but my printing pleasure has improved alot. I have purchased Eye-One Display 2 and has mixed feeling too. My NEC FP1350 has greatly improved grey now, but I wouldn't say my colour lab prints are much closer to what I see on monitor after calibration. I was able to get excellent prints before calibration (using Adobe Gamma back then), but now I have a little difficulty on determining the correct brightness for printing. On my old PC which runs 98SE, I can see no visible difference at all after calibration.

Still trying to figure what went wrong, or did it? Maybe I should buy the cheaper Spyder2 in the first place. Monster Hunter Iso For Ppsspp Roms Emuparadise on this page. The i1 Display 2 leaves me a little unsatisfied with its limited software. I would be kind of surprised too if the monitor looked exactly the same before & after calibrating. Using the Spydervision 2 I've seen a noticeable difference in my screen and have to say based on the prints I'm getting now and just the overall look of the screen, it's much more accurate than it was before.

I'm fairly frugal and really hesitated to spend money to calibrate my monitor, but now am very glad I did. I'm not sure how the Monaco softare work, but the Colorvision does show you the screen before & after calibration. William, If you are using Windows XP and were already using a profile from before (say created by Adobe Gamma), then right click anywhere on the desktop/wallpaper and go to Properties>Settings>Advanced>Color Management. Then with an image open in a software that uses the monitor profile (e.g. Photoshop or any decent raw converter) double click on the older profile.

You should be able to see the image displayed using the older profile. If the calibration went right, you should see a change, even if your original profile was ballpark correct. Let us know what happens. Joel, I too calibrate with Monaco Optics XR Pro and have a Sony with very similar settings. I have a single button control of color temperature and was able to set the monitor white point to around 6500K using the software calibration procedure. Upon calibrating my brightness setting was also high (in fact even higher than yours). I am not entirely sure whether that was correct.

My guess was that it was trying for a base luminance for the black point which is much brighter than �black�. I think the eye adjust to it in any case, and the end result is that we see a more consistent difference in the lower zones.