Spyder 3 Calibration.. Help me!!

TheBionicDan

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Hi all

Just got a Spyder 3 Pro calibration device and it really is causing me some grief.

I have a 13" MacBook Pro and a 20" Imac and both were running a very similar gamma and colour temp before I used the Spyder 3 this morning. Since calibrating with the Spyder the Imac is now running a very cool colour temp and the MBP has gone the other way and is now a warm temp. I've run the calib wizard several times on both machines and in various ambient light situations and the results are the same every time.. Images look compeletly different on the two macs now :(

Can anyone help, am I doing something very wrong, is this normal?

Dan
 
I've not done a full calibration for a while now, but don't you have to set the gamma etc first?
 
Gamma is set at 2.2 for both screens in the initial spyder setup, so I suppose it's the colour temp that the software is changing. Just don't know why it is so bloody different. To be honest neither looks anywhere near right now!
 
Not sure this is possible with Mac Chaz. No in screen menu with either, all monitor settings are controlled via OSX which is what the Spyder software is recalibrating.

Going to try again with 1.8 native gamma (which apparently is a mac default?!?!)
 
Or send both the profiles to Colorvision and they will be able to analyse them.
 
Asking the obvious but are both calibrating to the same target gamma, white point, etc?

Also, are the monitors different tech, eg one LED and one LCD? I don't know if the Spyder handles LED or not?
 
Well i did my imac with spyder 2 all ran fine then the other week it booted up very cool,
I scratched head then went into applications, system settings, display then sellected colour and noticed for some reason it had sellected srgb just sellected the spyder2 profile and all hunky dory.
It was that simple for me as you say on a imac you dont get access to temerature settings.
Just my experiances.
 
I have a MBP and a 24" external monitor. It's not possible to get the MBP to match the external monitor . It's close but the MPB runs a bit warmer. Looking at the curves you can see why, there isn't enough gain in the blue channel. Now the external I can adjust the RGB values on the monitor, but there are no such controls on the MBP. So I live with the differences. The MPB is OK for very close proofing but for accuracy it gets plug into the 24"
 
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