Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, the nearest Costco is 115 miles away
in New Jersey. But I just remembered I have a couple 12x24 prints of
Loch Fyne and Loch Lomond in Scotland made not so long ago which were
developed using this monitor. I just checked and compared them and they
are a pretty good match. It's interesting that the monitor must have
been profiled out of the box very close to what I have now. I did end
up reducing the brightness and contrast slightly to look a bit more
printlike but I think I'm good to go.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/13/2012 6:40 PM, David Young wrote:
>
>
>> The picture looks
>> great and I don't want to send it back. I'm just unsure about how
>> accurate it really is.
>
> Chuck... we have **got** to stop meeting like this! ;-)
>
> The way to test, is to set up a bit of a tricky photo so it looks good on your
> monitor. Send/take it to a lab that uses a Fuji Frontier printer.... they are
> normal set up to RGB standards... unlike many of the newer "dry" Noritsu's,
> which are often set up way out of the RGB colour space, to give "snappier"
> prints to the P&S crowd.
>
> Do NOT trust an print from a home printer, for this. You want a printer
> that's
> been set to the correct standards. Believe it or not, in my area, Costco is
> the photo lab of choice, for this! An 8x10 is a couple of bucks, and it's a
> quick& easy test. I email 'em in, and they're ready by noon the next day.
>
> Allow for the fact that a print does not have the same dynamic range as a
> screen, but if an 8x10 looks very close the the image on your monitor, you're
> likely OK. If not... probably time to consider returning it.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> David.
>
>
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