Just picked up a new Auria 27" IPS monitor from Microcenter for my home system (5,1 flashed '09). This monitor has been much talked up because of the low price point ($399usd for a 27" ips WQHD) and I've read a lot of good and bad things about it. Since I needed a large monitor for my home system I was seriously considering it and finally picked one up when I saw several open-box units at the local Microcenter which were going for around $300. I didn't notice any problems with build quality, funky buttons or OSD controls, lack of controls, stuck pixels. It is of decent build quality and the display quality seems excellent so far, however it will take more usage to make a definitive judgement. The only negative for me is that it is not wide-gamut, but if it's well profiled I'm sure it will be good enough for my home work which will not usually include extensive correction.
I have a question regarding profiling. I have an old (5+ years) EZcolor with eye-one display 2 from X-Rite. The package includes the old (I mean old) i1 puck, EZcolor profiling app and Monaco Colorworks app, along with targets for profiling printers and scanners as well as displays. Unfortunately it won't profile my wide-gamut monitor in the office but it seems to be doing a great job profiling the Auria as X-Rite had software upgrades (kudos to them). After sampling colors the software asks to set contrast to maximum and brightness to minimum and then resamples. This is the final dataset before the profile is generated and an alert warns not to change brightness after profile generation. Reasonable, but it says nothing about not changing the contrast which it just prior set to maximum. Can the contrast be changed (lowered) after the new profile has been selected for the monitor, or is the new profile specific to brightness AND contrast settings which were set when generated? Also, I chose 6500º for color temp, which I believe would correspond to "normal" in the monitors OSD. Should this be OK? (My first attempt at calibration and profiling got me a color temp of 6485 which seems pretty close.)
Would greatly appreciate any shared experience offered.
ps- Apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum. I considered posting in special interests-> photograhy or graphics and design, but ultimately felt it was a basic MP hardware-software usage question.
I have a question regarding profiling. I have an old (5+ years) EZcolor with eye-one display 2 from X-Rite. The package includes the old (I mean old) i1 puck, EZcolor profiling app and Monaco Colorworks app, along with targets for profiling printers and scanners as well as displays. Unfortunately it won't profile my wide-gamut monitor in the office but it seems to be doing a great job profiling the Auria as X-Rite had software upgrades (kudos to them). After sampling colors the software asks to set contrast to maximum and brightness to minimum and then resamples. This is the final dataset before the profile is generated and an alert warns not to change brightness after profile generation. Reasonable, but it says nothing about not changing the contrast which it just prior set to maximum. Can the contrast be changed (lowered) after the new profile has been selected for the monitor, or is the new profile specific to brightness AND contrast settings which were set when generated? Also, I chose 6500º for color temp, which I believe would correspond to "normal" in the monitors OSD. Should this be OK? (My first attempt at calibration and profiling got me a color temp of 6485 which seems pretty close.)
Would greatly appreciate any shared experience offered.
ps- Apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum. I considered posting in special interests-> photograhy or graphics and design, but ultimately felt it was a basic MP hardware-software usage question.