I recently got a new LG LCD monitor and used my Eye One 2 to calibrate it. I tried both the Automatic and Advanced options. Strangely, both gave me quite different results. I have 2 questions here:
1. For Auto mode, what are the Brightness and Contrast values that we should set before calibration? during calibration, the Eye One software says there is no need for us to adjust them as it will do the adjustment accordingly. I find this surprising. Does it mean even if we set the monitor to Brightness 100% Contrast 100% the software will eventually adjust the screen brightness/contrast to the best values?
2. For the Advanced option, I followed the on screen instructions. At the last part I had to manually adjust the luminance using the Brightness control of my LCD screen. The software indicated that my screen's luminence was too bright (about 210 cd/m2) while the target should be 120 cd/m2. I tried adjusting the brightness down to 0% but I was still not able to achieve the desired 120 cd/m2.:dunno::dunno:
In the end, I had to bring down the Contrast value to something like 35% to get the Luminance target value. I'm puzzled cos I believe I should not be fiddling with the Contrast setting since the adjustment had already been done earlier??
Has anyone experienced this?
After the calibration, I also noticed that the screen looks darker using the Advanced mode compared to the Automatic mode. So which is the more correct one?
Anyone any suggestions?
Thanks.
1. For Auto mode, what are the Brightness and Contrast values that we should set before calibration? during calibration, the Eye One software says there is no need for us to adjust them as it will do the adjustment accordingly. I find this surprising. Does it mean even if we set the monitor to Brightness 100% Contrast 100% the software will eventually adjust the screen brightness/contrast to the best values?
2. For the Advanced option, I followed the on screen instructions. At the last part I had to manually adjust the luminance using the Brightness control of my LCD screen. The software indicated that my screen's luminence was too bright (about 210 cd/m2) while the target should be 120 cd/m2. I tried adjusting the brightness down to 0% but I was still not able to achieve the desired 120 cd/m2.:dunno::dunno:
In the end, I had to bring down the Contrast value to something like 35% to get the Luminance target value. I'm puzzled cos I believe I should not be fiddling with the Contrast setting since the adjustment had already been done earlier??
Has anyone experienced this?
After the calibration, I also noticed that the screen looks darker using the Advanced mode compared to the Automatic mode. So which is the more correct one?
Anyone any suggestions?
Thanks.