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Monitor Calibration in NYC?
I am curious to get the names of a few people / places that can come calibrate my 26″ Panasonic Broadcast Monitor here in New York City. I wonder what all the big and little shops here in NYC use for calibration.
Model:
BT-LH2600WWhat should I be looking for them to have tool-wise, and is it smart to just stick with this at my work station, or should I also add a thx panny plasma (VT25/30 perhaps) for the wall / client to view as well? I also do have a Dreamcolor on another system in the room which gets MiniDisplay port from an HDLINK3D via Decklink Extreme. I am curious to have that re-calibrated as well but I feel weary of the type true method for this different solution.
any help would be great.
thanks
andrew -
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Give Gregg Lowen a call from Lion AV (lionav.com) he a lead THX calibrator. While mainly doing consumer calibrations he’s been doing our displays for years and is totally comfortable with post and high end calibrations, he’s one of the best out there.
As far as the equipment a good calibrator would come ideally with a good spectroradiometer like a Photo Research 650/655 or similar. However some might also come with a high end colorimeter like a Klein K-10, Minolta CA 210/310 or similar. These are much chapter that a high end spectroradiometer however sometimes to need to be calibrated themselves with a high end spectroradiometer and offsets programed into the probe.
There are other probes of course, but thing to avoid is the cheap “puck” style probes used to calibrate computer monitors – these can’t read very well in low light and can cause some problems.
The other component is the software that is used to read information from the probe (if the monitor doesn’t auto calibrate with probe – For Example FSI’s will auto calibrate with a K-10 or CA 210) and allow you profile the display. Calman, Light Illusions and others are popular.
As far as matching displays the only way to get this spot on is with a probe even then though there is a phenomenon known as metamerism failure that comes into play (do a search here on the COW BRAM from FSI wrote about metamerism failure a few weeks ago).
As far as multiple displays in our rooms we have 55-65″ Panny Plasmas for clients (which are calibrated) and we use FSI’s as our reference monitor of choice.
Hope this helps
Robbie Carman
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