I did pick up the Apple Display and it is gorgeous! I also did grab the Spyder2 yesterday, and after my wedding, I got home and hooked it up.
Going thru the steps, I couldn't decide if I should leave the monitor to full briteness or not, so I
left it at full minus 3 bars.
I also went with the default setting to calibrate to 2.2 (recommended by the Colorvision software)
and noticed my screen went darker. So, it went thru the steps, blah blah, and read the shades of R,G & B + Greys with the little Spyder hanging from my screen. Then it created my new profile, it seemed to neutralize making it appear that I had a red cast before the calibration, you know how your mind adjusts, etc.
Then I loaded all 700 shots from the wedding onto my internal, and upon playing around with them in PS Filebrowser, I noticed that while the Histo's looked pretty decent, everything was very dark.
Now, this morning I tried to do the same proceedure on my Powerbook (G4) and noticed something I missed in the opening steps, and that is when you choose the gamut, 1.8 or 2.2, the 1.8 said "Native". I'm thinking I should have left my Cinema Display at 1.8? Then my shots would have looked like before the calibration. Or at least a lot closer.
Keep in mind that I did not hit "2.2" on the Apple Display prefs, but rather upon Spyder's prompting (by default). I would assume that by running the Apple version on the install CD, it would have taken my better choice into consideration.
Any experience or suggestions with this? Should I re-run the Spyder under 1.8? How will this affect Windows viewers seeing my web-pages and e-mailed proofs, etc?
thanks!
-matt
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