Aug 26, 2014 - Remember, calibration and profiles are set on a per display basis. That means the internal display of a MacBook Pro would have a different.

I’ve been running an EIZO ColorEdge display for a couple of years, using EIZO’s bundled ColorNavigator software with a Datacolor Spyder3Express ‘puck’. I’ve never had much confidence in the Spyder3 hardware. I seem to get magenta-polluted deep shadows no matter what software I use with it (Datacolor, basICColor, EIZO). The ones that take longer seem to do marginally better, suggesting to me it might be a signal-to-noise problem. Also, running the monitor-validation process in ColorNavigator has always returned delta-E values on the high side of comfort.

Recently I got a MacBook Pro with Retina display. I’ve read the Retina displays are supposedly profiled at the factory to within spitting distance of sRGB.

At any rate, colours look reasonable out of the box, though not quite the same as my EIZO. Deep shadows are a little blocked up, though. Trouble arises when I use the Spyder3Express app. This software is extremely basic and gives next to no control, but disregarding that limitation, it is producing a profile that just ruins my shadows. Things go crazy-pink down there. Is there any point in persisting with the Spyder3 colorimeter in these circumstances?

Some way of overriding the Spyder3 profile only in the deep shadows, perhaps? If not, who makes a reasonably priced alternative that can accurately read deep shadows on a high-density IPS panel with LED backlighting? Al Valentino wrote: what is the brightness set to.

Eight clicks of brightness using the keyboard control (i.e. Half-way, which is obviously far less than half the energy output in nits). Handbrake for mac youtube. I have the EIZO set to 100 nits for photo work, or sometimes 60 nits for general web browsing in the evening (I’m not a fan of bright displays for reading). The Spyder3Express software doesn’t report the luminance in nits and can’t be used to target a specific luminance, but I can say the profile works slightly better (i.e. Less magenta in shadows) if I create it while at max brightness. However, I was worried the spectral energy distribution of the backlight would vary at different brightnesses, and that I would therefore get best results by making the profile at the desired brightness?

If the backlight doesn’t vary much across its brightness range, I could of course profile the display at full brightness and then just use whatever brightness I like. Sorry to hear of these issues your having.

But I don't want to emulate the keyboard with the pad because then there wouldn't be analog control. Each control method has its pluses and minuses though even Keyboard and Mouse. On the Mac I mostly use this method with Doomsday playing Doom or Heretic. And I have been mostly doing that on the PC since a lot of Mac FPS don't support gamepads at all and Halo doesn't let you use mouse and gamepad you can only choose mouse and keyboard or just gamepad. Mac support for xbox 360 controller.

With hardware this good, everything should be almost perfect. I'm working through an upgrade of monitors & pucks too so lack your experience but may be able to add a bit to the discussion. While researching new pucks, ran across a link in thread to a review of several brands of pucks & profiling software.