30" ACD - Trust the Buying Guide?

[Michael73]

Yesterday I became the proud owner of a 30" ACD. The size and resolution are awesome. The guy at the apple store who I've dealt with before was great. He said they sell very few of the ACDs...just 3-4 a month, if that. He said the sell more MacPros. He was so happy I bought the monitor he said, "I want to give you a hug." We hugged in the store with like 250 people milling around...very funny and bizarre at the same time 😀

Anyway, now that I have the monitor at home, the color seems a tad bit washed out. I decided not to get the Huey Pro until I tried the ColorSync first. Any tips on calibrating this beautiful monster?

 

[Hmac]

are they hard to use ?? because i was wondering if its worth it to mess around with the color profile

I have two ACD 30's on my Mac Pro. They have been exceptional monitors and I'd buy again in a heartbeat.

I do a lot of photography (Nikon D3 in RAW only, editing with either CS4 or Nikon Capture NX2. I use the CinemaHD profile and have had absolutely zero complaints for color accuracy.

 

[Transporteur]

Any tips on calibrating this beautiful monster?

I've set my Gamma to 2.2 (which is the native of the display), looks much better now.
I don't know which OS you're running but IIRC, Tiger and Leopard both set a Gamma value of 2.0 as standard.