If you stare at an iMac or possibly Apple monitor fro long, you will go blind. It is
bright. The problem lies in trying to match what you see to what you print. If you adjust an image to your liking with all that brightness, you end up with dark prints. Really dark prints. In my scatterbrained experience. If the brightness is turned down "scientifically" keeping the color values the same relative to each other, you will be lightening the image to please. In 100% brightness, it would look too bright and you'd cut the exposure. Wrong thing to do. That's where Dark Adapted comes in. It lets you control multiple monitors, each calibrated to the same values, by dimming then together, or not, and attempting (some say poorly, but not me) to keep the same values for your color spectrum. All I know for sure is 1. I love the monitor dimmed with no brilliant white blasting you in the face when you are not working images. 2. Whenever you change the monitor brightness, ganged or separately, a little grey block opens in the center of your screen with a red, green and blue dot, i … to just remind you that everything is ok, "I'm doing a good job for you." Others on this list are way more into this, and may have different opinions, or different software, or hate Apple. I frankly have an older ColorVision Datacolor probe 2 ? that won't do two monitors. But all this touching on the subject pressured me into buying a new model 4 Pro yesterday, just as the chatter about AstroTracking forced me to buy a new Pentax GPS-1 unit the day before. Gotta lay off the PDML for a while and let the cards rest until I get settled into my new digs and play with my new toys. Good Luck - over and out… On Sep 27, 2012, at 17:13 , Christine Nielsen wrote: > Thanks for your thoughts... I wonder about the Dark Adapted software...I'm > not familiar - Do you find that you need that extra intervention to get your > monitor to a low enough brightness level? Because you are working mostly in > the evenings, In the dark, I assume? My editing is usually during the > daytime - until 3pm, when everybody comes back home, then the party's over... > > On Sep 27, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > >> I too have both an Apple iMac 24" glossy, and an HP mate screen. I got the >> HP thinking it would be better for image manipulation, or watching streaming >> movies while I worked. In fact, I work and watch movies on the iMac, using >> the HP for windows, email, genealogy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
