A good Brightness setting will range anywhere from 80 to 120 cd/m2, depending on how bright your ambient lighting is in the room. If you work in a “cave-like” setting then you’d want your monitor brightness to be around 80 or less. If your display is sitting in a fairly bright office, then you’d want to go in the direction of 120. Sorry to be so vague, but our eyes get used to whatever brightness (and color) of room light we’re in and your monitor should reflect that. Otherwise a really bright monitor would burn your eyes out if you were in a dark room, and a dim monitor would look really flat in a bright room. Which ever setting you choose, the CN software will calibrate and profile the display to reproduce all the colors accurately according to your settings.
White point should be D65 for 1, 2, & 3.
Gamma should be L* (move the slider all the way to the right - past 2.6 - to get to the L* setting) for 1, 2, & 3…
Tone Curve priority should be Gray balance for 1, 2, & 3… You want your grays to be as neutral and accurate as possible.
Most people like to use the emulations you’re using: sRGB & AdobeRGB. Some will use this feature to have the display emulate the gamut of their printer, so that the whole screen becomes a “soft-proofer”. It’s also a good idea to have one additional target pointed at the Monitor Native setting of the display, so that once in awhile you can view an image in all its glory, using the full saturation that the display is capable of.
Yes, I was referring to creating a new target in CN and I was confused about a couple of points, especially b/c there was no Rec. 709 gamut setting to select… But then I found the custom entry option where you can easily define the RGB primaries for any gamut (sRGB & Rec 709 have same gamut anyways), so that makes it very easy…
GAMMA
Here’s how I understand Gamma for Rec 709 & sRGB:
Gamma for Rec 709 should be 2.4 (2.5 up top was a typo on my part) - that is what the ITU has set it to currently - that displays an end-to-end final image gamma of ~ 1.2 on screen…
Gamma for sRGB should be 2.2 which comes closest to the hybrid sRGB response function (slope offset and curve).
I think that would simulate these 2 color spaces pretty accurately… I’m not sure when you choose L* as tonal response curve, how close it would come to these 2 (although L* might be more realistic for human vision) - highest priority for me is to create a reference display for these color spaces.
LUMINANCE
Thank you for your input, I’ll stick with a compromise of 100 cd / m2. I’m still not sure about the brightness of Adobe RGB - recommended luminance is 160 cd / m2 - but as stated in the other thread once you go above 120 cd / m2 with the Eizo, the warranty is invalid…
TONE RESPONSE PRIORITY
What would you say about tone response priority ? Gray balance ?
