Correct -- no ColorMunki, no Spyder.Lou Jost wrote:Rik, do you mean that you don't bother to calibrate or profile your monitor?
Mind you, I'm not philosophically opposed to monitor calibration. I just think it's way oversold, and I don't expect people looking at my photos to have done it.
What I do instead is just make sure that my monitors are adjusted to pass the commonly recommended and eminently practical brightness/contrast tests, for example at http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/contrast.php.
I also check, when preparing an image for public display, that it looks OK on some range of monitors that might be found "in the wild". This week, that's my 5K iMac, these Dell P2415Q, and an old Lenovo laptop. If what I want to show can be seen on all those screens then life is good. If it can't, typically because the darks are blocking up, then I have to consider altering the image in some way that probably lowers the impact on good displays, but then works OK even on lesser ones.
This whole approach no doubt has its roots in my focus on transmitting information, not artistry. I really have no idea whether anybody else's eyes see "yellow" exactly the same way that mine do, so I don't worry much about whether the yellow of their monitor-plus-environment is exactly the same as mine.
--Rik