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No way of having a little more precision?
Authored by: berland on Oct 17, '07 06:57:47AM

This got my hopes up for a few seconds. But no, not what I was hoping for.

How do others work with monitor calibration tools like the Spyder?

I have the SpyderPRO for my Macbook Pro and when I'm asked to adjust the brightness, I hardly can and it's a real pain. Other than on the Cinema displays the built-in brightess controls of the Macbook Pro are exremely rough (1 point as seen in the bezel at a time opposed to 1/4 on the Cinema displays).

You can be more precise using the slider in the System Preferences. If you have a steady hand you can move your mouse pixel by pixel and make your adjustments.

Why the hell isn't there a simple text box to put in some numbers or something? I mean, the slider is just changing values, right? Just let me do that myself, *please*!?



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No way of having a little more precision?
Authored by: 44sunsets on Oct 19, '07 07:52:12PM

ColorEyes Display Pro by Integrated Color Corp lets you make fine colour adjustments to monitors such as the Apple Cinema Display, including adjusting the brightness down to very low levels.

For example, I made colour profiles that I can switch between to get 60 cd/m2, 80 cd/m2, 120 cd/m2 and so on.

I have very sensitive eyes, so I stick to 60 cd/m2 most of the time, except when I'm doing colour-critical work which is when I select the corresponding profile for the lowest brightness setting of my Cinema Display (which is actually still really bright).

I use ColorEyes Display Pro with my Spyder2, and it is leaps and bounds better than the bundled Spyder2 calibration software.



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No way of having a little more precision?
Authored by: rmddail on Nov 11, '10 07:32:08AM

Hi there, I am not sure, perhaps you know that, but
there are keyboard shortcuts for more precise brightness control ...

Opt+Shift+F1/F2

you get 4 stops for each white box in brightness indicator ...


Hope this could help you ...



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