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Calibrating Color Temperature on Production Monitor
I just bought a used Sony PVM-14L5 monitor, and noticed that the white balance is slightly off. Do you guys have any advice on calibrating the white balance on this monitor?
I’m aware of how to calibrate using the color bars and blue gun, but even after doing this, I notice that the color bars are slightly green when using the D65 color temperature setting. I was able to manually adjust the gain and bias setting to get pretty good color using the old eyeball method. But it’s definitely not right on. So is there some correct procedure for doing this? Or some tools that will help, or maybe even a service that can do this for you? I don’t want to spend too much more money, but it would be nice to have a monitor that actually displays the correct colors.
In an earlier thread, I saw Tony Salgado mention that he uses a monitor probe to measure color temperature. If you’re reading this, Tony, what model do you use?
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I have a guy come in every few months to calibrate if for me. D65 is the right setting, but there are lots of tweaks that I leave to guys that know.
Shane
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The Sony probe for this monitor is the BKM-14L. There are several others available from companies like Barco, Minolta etc. that plug right into the front of the monitor and work through the menu system also.
Make sure you are not too near flourescent overhead lighting that produces a green tint or green walls etc. Warm up the monitor for 1/2 hour and try with the lights off or dimmed.
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I think he has a PVM monitor. so the sony probe won’t work.
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[CharlieX] “I think he has a PVM monitor. so the sony probe won’t work.”
why wouldn’t it?
That probe is made for that monitor.
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Shane, I’m curious, whats your contrast and brightness set to on your PVM?
I finally got one 2 weeks ago, great monitor.
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I may be wrong, I have the BKM-14L probe which only works with the BVM (as in Beta, not Pacaderm).
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Its supposed to support PVM but its listed as primarily a bvm probe.
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Thanks for the advice guys.
I’m pretty sure that Sony probe only works with the BVM monitors, simply because I don’t see a socket for it on my monitor. Was able to find some other color analyzers, but they’re not automatic like on the BVM. All are pretty pricey, so it might be better just to get someone to do the calibration now and then. I don’t think monitors go out of calibration very quickly.
By the way, the pvm seems a little darker than the regular tv set that I was using to monitor. Is this normal?
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I would definitely trust the look of a calibrated pro-crt over a television any day.
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Hi,
It just happens that I am hesitating on my monitor color temp as well.
I have a panasonic LH2600W and the LH1700W also.
I read everywhere that D65 is the proper setting, but if I am in a dark room and generate a BW ramp test signal and toggle between D65 an D93, the D93 looks white to me and the D65 has a warm amber color shift.
So technically, if I color grade in D93, my material will end-up too warm, and if I work in D65 it seems that it will end-up waaaaayyyy too cold on output.
Any words of wisdom from my temperature insecure mind?
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