[filmscanners] Re: Monitor Calibration

["" <ron@sc.rr.com>]

Hi Michael,

Your message is coming to me. I hope it is also making it to the list.

Thanks.

Ron Erter

>On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:36:44 -0330 "michael shaffer" <michael@shaffer.net>
wrote.
>Howard writes ...

>

>> ...

>> When I look at my Windows(ME) StartUp folder there are absolutely

>> no files in it of any sort.  I know that, for example, with Adobe

>> Gamma (which I don't have), that there are files put in this

>> folder. Is it correct that PhotoCal is not supposed to put files

>> into the StartUp folder ...

>

>  I use Win2k, but PhotoCal does put "photocal startup" in the startup

>folder ... I suspect the same should be true for Win/ME.  Is there any

>chance there is more than a single startup folder for WinME?  Possibly
there

>is a startup folder for "default user" rather than the login you typically

>use(?)  Have you contacted Colorvision support.  They do respond, but it
may

>take a few days.

>

>> Also, when you adjust the black luminescense with PhotoCal, the

>> contrast is put up to 100efore the brightness is adjusted to

>> allow the 4 dark boxes to be just separable from each other.  But

>> then when I adjust the white luminescence to the appropriate

>> value I need to turn the contrast down to about 79.  Is it

>> correct that you  do not readjust the black luminescence with the

>> brightness control once the contrast has been adjusted downwards?

>

>  I also used the "contrast" for adjusting the monitor max downwards (...

>much simpler than adjusting gun gain ...) but, you probably should also

>back-up for making sure your "blackpoint" is still as you visually adjusted

>previously (... or run Photocal a 2nd time ...)

>

>cheerios ... shAf  :o)

>Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland

>

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