[filmscanners] RE: Monitor Calibration

["michael shaffer" <michael@shaffer.net>]

Howard writes ...

> ...
> When I look at my Windows(ME) StartUp folder there are absolutely
> no files in it of any sort.  I know that, for example, with Adobe
> Gamma (which I don't have), that there are files put in this
> folder. Is it correct that PhotoCal is not supposed to put files
> into the StartUp folder ...

  I use Win2k, but PhotoCal does put "photocal startup" in the startup
folder ... I suspect the same should be true for Win/ME.  Is there any
chance there is more than a single startup folder for WinME?  Possibly there
is a startup folder for "default user" rather than the login you typically
use(?)  Have you contacted Colorvision support.  They do respond, but it may
take a few days.

> Also, when you adjust the black luminescense with PhotoCal, the
> contrast is put up to 100% before the brightness is adjusted to
> allow the 4 dark boxes to be just separable from each other.  But
> then when I adjust the white luminescence to the appropriate
> value I need to turn the contrast down to about 79.  Is it
> correct that you  do not readjust the black luminescence with the
> brightness control once the contrast has been adjusted downwards?

  I also used the "contrast" for adjusting the monitor max downwards (...
much simpler than adjusting gun gain ...) but, you probably should also
back-up for making sure your "blackpoint" is still as you visually adjusted
previously (... or run Photocal a 2nd time ...)

cheerios ... shAf  :o)
Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland

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