Calibration/Brightness Poll

#1

Take a look at this image, and see if you can read all the letters A-F and U-Z in BOTH upper and lower columns:

If you are missing any, please vote on how many letters you can’t fully read.

-jeremy

#2

I put down 2 missing, even tho i can read Z and Y. They are quite faint tho.

#3

Can’t read ABC.

What are we supposed to see and not see ? Because I would have to put my luminosity to 100%.

Maybe I did not use Adobe gamma like I should have. Anyway… My colours must be good since they print the same at professionnal printers.

:sad:

#4

I can see them all, but only on different bits of the screen :slight_smile: Got an LCD monitor, and the black ones look fine near the bottom where I’m looking down on them, scroll them up an they disappear. The white ones OK at the top where they’re at eye level, scroll down and they vanish too. Shows how wierd LCDs are!

#5

I can’t see any of the letters in black (A-F).

#6

i can see all on my Trinitron, but then with my Samsung Sync Master, i lose 2 on both ends.

i have contrast all the way up and brightness at 40% [i don’t use adobe color gamma]. i only use the setting within the nvidia settings if i need to match the two monitors.

#7

I can see them all, but I know my machine hasn’t been calibrated… I just have my brightness and contrast cranked to full…

…

Is that a bad thing?

#8

I can see them all, but only on different bits of the screen :slight_smile: Got an LCD monitor, and the black ones look fine near the bottom where I’m looking down on them, scroll them up an they disappear. The white ones OK at the top where they’re at eye level, scroll down and they vanish too. Shows how wierd LCDs are!

Hey Jeremy. I have an LCD too. I seem to have enough contrast that I can tell what all the letters are. On ther other hand though, all of the white box’s in each row look alike. :shrug:

-b

#9

You should be able to see all the letters, ideally. Otherwise, you are missing out on parts of your images. If you are missing from both ends, maybe the contrast is cranked up too high on your monitor. A really old monitor will get dim and you’ll lose the darker tones, sometimes things can be adjusted to correct for that, other times not. People working in too bright a room with a lot of glare or direct sunlight entering the room will usually miss a lot of letters just from the light pollution. I’m actually surprised on a graphics-oriented site how many people are missing a lot of the tones, this is a problem.

-jeremy

#10

I think it depends what you’re calibrated for. I’m looking at the chart on a very expensively calibrated monitor and can’t read the darkest 2 boxes, but in my case that’s because the monitor’s calibrated for an additional look-up on rendered pictures. My point is just because you can’t read it in your web-browser doesn’t mean that you image viewing app of choice is wrong too, and that you aren’t seeing all you should for “important stuff” - like work for example.

A

#11

I can see all the letters. Of course, there is a bit of eye-squinting involved when i read the black ones. But, it’s ok. Can see all of them.

#12

Andrew -

I know what you’re talking about, I have different software doing different colorspaces at work too, but I think most people are replying with what they see on the same basis as what they see in their 3D programs or photoshop or when they critique images posted on CGtalk, and that we are seeing that half the people viewing and discussing images here are missing some of the bright or dark tones of all the images.

-jeremy

#13

A-F are almost not visible… F is there if I look hard. The white ones to the right are visible, but are very feint. I purposefully keep my monitor darker so that it doesn’t hurt my eyes… As an artist, I’m very sensitive to the lighting environment around me. Bright monitors hurt my eyes and give me a headache… My brightness is around 48% and Contrast is 60% on this Dell machine here at work. At home, on my photoshop/lightwave emachine it’s a little closer to 50/80

#14

Jeremy,
That image you posted is fine for calibrating contrast and brightness, but how do you calibrate for color?

#15

what is the deal? the more the better? or the less the better?

#16

Im having real problems calibrating. When my brightness is full blast and im using adobe gama and full contrast i still cant see some of the dark ones. Anyway good idea with the poll and all.

#17

Im having real problems calibrating. When my brightness is full blast and im using adobe gama and full contrast i still cant see some of the dark ones. Anyway good idea with the poll and all.
I had the same problem. But after tweaking some settings in the Nvidia Display Settings, I managed to get some good results and now can see all of the letters (A- just slightly).

And it really makes a difference in images like these. Before calibrating I could hardly se the lower right part of the image.

#18

i can see the lower rigt part of that image fine but read the a out of the question weird. MAybe my monitor just cant handel fine tone changes. maybe its time for a monitor upgrade. i dunno.

#19

Hah. At work on my professionally calibrated montior I can’t see A-F at all. At home I can make out all the letters.

#20

I think color depth has also something to do with it.
With 32 bit i can see all letters clearly (Uncalibrated LCD Samsung SyncMaster213T)
but with 16 bit its almost impossible to see Z.