Monitor calibrating

[Lovin]

Happy New Year ! to everyone !

I have a quick question :
How can I calibrate the monitor for my Olympus camera?

Thank you

[tirediron]

You don't calibrate your monitor specifically to your camera, rather you're calibrating your monitor to display the most accurate possible colours. The best possible way is by using a colourometer, such as the Spyder III.

[Lovin]

Thank you.

[Marko]

T.I. is correct!

In the next few weeks I'll be testing 2 other (higher end) monitor calibration systems as well...and doing a podcast on them.

[Ben H]

Cool - this is one area where I'm *really* not sure about.

Some ideas for the podcast that I'd be particularly interested in - does using a hardware device really offer markedly different results to using the OS's built in monitor calibration routines?

Are the inbuilt routines good enough for general use?

Why do my images look different when I put them onto the web?

Why do my images look different when I print them out?

Is calibration *really* important?

Are hardware systems worth the price, if you're only going to use it once to get a "good" monitor profile? Can't I just download a calibrated profile for the monitor I own? Shouldn't the manufacturers offer this?

Look forward to the next podcast, as always - cheers Marko!

[Mad Aussie]

Our Spyder3Pro Calibration Device arrived today and we set about calibrating our monitors right away.

Great tool. I had my monitors set pretty well apparently, but for the life of us we hadn't been able to get my wife's laptop and her extra monitor calibrated by eye at all. Hence the Spyder3Pro purchase.
After 5 mins installing and running the device, Leanne's monitors both look great now.

For those Aussies here, we got ours online from this West Australian site http://www.qualitycamera.com.au/ which got ours to us today here in Brisbane, and we only ordered it yesterday. Not bad at all. Cost $300 incl postage and insurance.