Monitor Calibration 6500 or sRGB?

padi89

Got a Spyder 2 recently and used to to calibrate my monitor with great results esp in color.
My question is should i calibrate it in 6500 or sRGB?
The manual says to set your monitor to default to calibrate and this is 6500 but the end result is a little too bright for me.When i calibrate in sRGB i still get great results but it is more comfortable on the eye.
Il stick with sRGB for comfort but i am wondering if this defeats the purpose?

AlanMooneyPhoto

Hi Padi,
Not sure I understand your question, but if the choice is calibrating to 6500 or srgb choose srgb.
Most likely your printer is calibrated to srgb also and this is what you want, uniformity between the monitor you see and the images you print.
Alan

quilmore

Use NATIVE (N) if available, none of the other can be as good as native

Saggitarius

Please don't mix this two things: 6500 and sRGB!
The 6500 value is a color temperature and the sRGB is a color space!
6500's value means the normaly Daylight color temperature
sRGB is standard RGB color space and some photo machines can handle the Adobe RGB which can cover a bit bigger color area.
If you want to dig in yourself a bit deeper you can find HERE some information.

Originally a monitor calibration is a bit expensive and long procedure. It's need a special equipment.
You can tune together your line from photo machine till printer.
I copyed from Photoshop help:
"Calibrate and profile your monitor When you calibrate your monitor, you are adjusting it so it conforms to a known specification. Once your monitor is calibrated, the profiling utility lets you save a color profile. The profile describes the color behavior of the monitor—what colors can or cannot be displayed on the monitor and how the numeric color values in an image must be converted so that colors are displayed accurately.

1. Make sure your monitor has been turned on for at least a half hour. This gives it sufficient time to warm up and produce more consistent output.
2. Make sure your monitor is displaying thousands of colors or more. Ideally, make sure it is displaying millions of colors or 24‑bit or higher.
3. Remove colorful background patterns on your monitor desktop and set your desktop to display neutral grays. Busy patterns or bright colors surrounding a document interfere with accurate color perception.
4. Do one of the following to calibrate and profile your monitor:
   • In Windows, install and use a monitor calibration utility.
   • In Mac OS, use the Calibrate utility, located on the System Preferences/Displays/Color tab.
   • For the best results, use third-party software and measuring devices. In general, using a measuring device such as a colorimeter along with software can create more accurate profiles because an instrument can measure the colors displayed on a monitor far more accurately than the human eye.
   Note: Monitor performance changes and declines over time; recalibrate and profile your monitor every month or so. If you find it difficult or impossible to calibrate your monitor to a standard, it may be too old and faded.

Most profiling software automatically assigns the new profile as the default monitor profile. For instructions on how to manually assign the monitor profile, refer to the Help system for your operating system."

padi89

Cheers for the replys. I tried 6500 again but it got uncomfortable so im sticking with sRGB.