deadvoid · HackerTrans

11 months agodiscuss

i'm in post-production so lots of color spaces & monitorings. colorimeters drifted with age/usage, so annual check for the first two years or so is good enough but then gradually afterwards it's good practice to calibrate more frequent, and more likely there's a small fee for that. spectrometers (or spectroradiometer can't be sure) are still insanely expensive.

deadvoid

11 months agodiscuss

jesus fuck the whole discussion here is ptsd inducing... you need at least color accurate monitoring (including $25-30K calibrated monitor if you want to discuss rec2020-beyond) before judging if the output color looks "correct", and as correct here includes perceptually uniformity, then your monitor is crucial since light emitting technologies in the market are wildly varied.

this is _especially_ vital if you're not from color science & color correction industry, because that means you have no prior experience(s) with many problems & implications faced in the last 30 years of say, film post-production, which might have seen or solved some of these newly experienced "problems", which might've been caused by hardware choice(s) for example.

deadvoid

11 months agodiscuss

as post production guy living outside US/EU, a decade or so ago i was surprised that colorimeter was supposed to be regularly calibrated by another, more expensive, device.

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