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[Mikhail Puzyrev]

Hello Michael! Did you find that a human eye is more precise tool? Or you going to quit color grading forever for something more interesting? ))

[Michael Cinquin]

Hi Mikhail

nice to read you.

well I did buy an FSI monitor (which cannot be calibrated by the end user), and also I’m buying a new projector ProjectionDesign, (which is supposed to come hardware-calibrated), and whose white point I can adjust by comparing to the FSI.

And I need the cash to open a second office in the other region of Belgium (Wallonia).

And I found where I can rent a CS-2000 😉 (scientec.fr)

[Jake Blackstone]

What do you mean by “FSI monitor (which cannot be calibrated by the end user)”?
Of coarse it can be calibrated, just like any other type of LCD monitor…

[Michael Cinquin]

Well, you sure can adujst white point, saturation, brightness, chroma, luminosity. But you can’t tweak the CMS nor the grayscale balance without renting the calibration kit from FSI, and they don’t rent outside the US.

[Clayton Burkhart]

Pointless to calibrate for the color on the FSI, that remains relatively stable over time. Aside from a 20K calibrator, you are likely to make things worse with a calibration unit rather than better for a video monitor. Mostly it’s the brightness levels which diminish. If you measure only the luminance from the moment of purchase you will be able to see the drift over time, provided you use the same tool and lighting conditions. This you can adjust manually on the screen, remeasuring until you arrive at your original values. Leave the serious calibration to the big boys.

[Jake Blackstone]

The point was made, that FSI monitor “which cannot be calibrated by the end user” is completely wrong. Any professional monitor, including FSI can be calibrated with the right tools.

[Michael Cinquin]

so as not to infuriate M. Blackstone, and for the sake of completeness, let’s change
“which cannot be calibrated by the end user”
into
“which cannot be calibrated by the end user unless she owns (or rent inside the USA) FSI’s calibration kit

[Robin Erard]

Certains membres de ce forum sont un peu chiants parfois.

Peux-tu m’en dire plus sur le projectordesign, prends-tu un projecteur avec lampe xéon ? Toujours dans un espace REC709 ou DCI.

A plus

Robin

réalisateur, scénariste, monteur, étalonneur
http://www.robinerard.ch

[Jake Blackstone]

You absolutely CAN calibrate the FSI monitor, just like any other monitor with number of available hardware options from Klein or Minolta and can create a profile LUT in order to build a viewing or print LUT with something like Cinespace or Light Illusion for use with all software offerings, like DaVinci, Image Systems, Autodesk etc..
People are buying this monitor outside of US and they are able to calibrate it themselves, without need to send it back to US for calibration at the factory.

[Michael Cinquin]

[jake blackstone] “You absolutely CAN calibrate the FSI monitor…
You sure can profile your FSI monitor with whatever probe you have, then build a LUT with whatever software you have, then use whatever software or hardware to apply the lut, and you’re free to call the result “calibrated”. Of course that will not change the internal settings of the FSI, it will merely put a LUT in top of the internal LUT of the monitor.