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A Good Monitor Calibrators?

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imported_darkpegisus

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Wondering witch would be a good hardware monitor calibrator?

LaCie blue eye pro $349.00
GretagMacbeth EYE-ONE DISPLAY 2 $249.00
ColorVision Spyder2PRO Studio 2.0 $299

I'm looking to bring some new life to my old Samsung SyncMaster 753DF monitor.
But not sure witch one to get. It's ben a realy good monitor for many year, but it's
slowly going dark and it has slight red tint to it.

I use my computer for game, dvd's, and tv.
 
If your monitor is failing, you need a new monitor. Hardware calibration is pointless if your monitor has drifted that much, and will only be a band-aid solution that lasts for a short time. The proper reason to get a hardware calibrator is if you want accurate reproduction of photographic images for photo retouching or graphic arts work. I use a Gretag Macbeth Eye One Display 2 to calibrate my Samsung 213T and Powerbook G4's LCD with success.

Thus, while hardware calibration can be a great thing if one needs it, it sounds like you would be better off just getting a new monitor, as this one is probably going to die soon, and nothing that you're doing needs a higher level of color accuracy than you could get by going to some web site with calibration images and adjusting the screen visually.
 
I know I need new monitor, but can't find one as good as this one was. I know i'm being overly picky, but i'm am theone going to use it all the time. so I just want to keep this one going untill i'm forced to buy new one. Plus weather or not I do photographic images for photo retouching, a good color accuracy has alway ben importent to me.

Some crt that I have tried are either to washed out on the colors or the color red look like the color orange (or orange with slight red).
 
Unfortunately if the CRT is on its last legs there is no way you around going to get red to look like red again. What's a good calibrator? Sorry, I'm not sure. For software there is the Nokia calibrator and DisplayMate, but I don't know which one is generally preferred. All I've heard of for hardware is Gretag and Spyder...
 
Originally posted by: darkpegisus
I know I need new monitor, but can't find one as good as this one was. I know i'm being overly picky, but i'm am theone going to use it all the time. so I just want to keep this one going untill i'm forced to buy new one. Plus weather or not I do photographic images for photo retouching, a good color accuracy has alway ben importent to me.

Some crt that I have tried are either to washed out on the colors or the color red look like the color orange (or orange with slight red).
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This may sound harsh, but I don't mean it as an insult: get over your sentimentalism. Your monitor is dying, and it now fails to function properly. No calibrator, hardware or otherwise, will be able to bring it back. By definition, since it isn't working properly, it would be very easy for you to find a monitor that is better, for the same price as a hardware calibrator. Then, use that Nokia monitor testing program to eyeball the calibration yourself; you'll have saved money, gotten a new monitor that will last another many years, while yet being able to easily get color that's more than acceptable for anything except color critical tasks (the kind of stuff I do, for example, like color correcting an image on the monitor and then sending it off for a $50 print without the luxury of as many tries as I'd like to "get it right").
 
well i'm not sentimental about my monitor. I just can't find another monitor that fits my requirements, and your not insulting me at all. Any suggestions on a good monitor would be appreciated.

One that has good vibrant colors, not so bright that your eyes burn in thier sockets and has a good contrast that doesn't give a white haze in front of what your looking at (or something like that, hard to describe what i wont in a monitor).

Highest price i can afford is $450.
 
This Samsung CRT gets good reviews, and is well within your budget. If you want to go with an LCD, you'll want a graphics card with DVI output to get the full advantage of crisp display quality. There are a tremendous number of options; since I mostly follow the higher end LCD market that is targeted at designers, photographers, etc., I am not really equipped to advise you on the best 17 and 19 inch LCDs available today that fit your budget. I'm sure if you ask in the form of an appropriately titled thread, you'll have more responses than you could hope for (or maybe some suggestions to search the archives) in very little time. 🙂
 
I tried that Samsung CRT and the colors were washed out to me (mybe i just got a bad one). I have a Geforce 6800 gt video card. I was realy thinking about the Samsung 970p lcd until i heard that it was a 6 bit pannel, and a 6 bit lcd does not work to well for viewing tv on (at least in my opinion).

I guess i will need to do more research on monitors. Mybe i will get the LaCie blue eye pro, looks to be a good one. I know it may not do anything this monitor at all, but when i do get a new monitor it can help make it more what i think a monitor should look like (seems like manufacturer's are trying to get then to the as fast as they can and line there pockets as much as they can while quality of the product goes way down). but that's a big maybe.

Thanks for the info I appreciate.
 
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