LaCie's blue eye 2 is a complete monitor calibration and automatic ICC profiling tool that ensures accurate color rendering. Manual hardware calibration of. The LaCie Blue Eye calibration is intended to calibrate settings relative to the Gamma, Color Temp, and Luminance values that you select. It's based on your preference, so there is no one correct setting. I went through days of this when I calibrated my first monitor.
It’s funny in a way. PC enthusiasts will spend hundreds of dollars on a graphics card, and hundreds or even a thousand dollars or more on a large widescreen monitor, along with who-knows-how-much on powerful CPUs and RAM. We do it to make sure our games look their best and run their smoothest, to edit our big digital photos and videos quickly and easily on a nice big screen, and to have a more fluid and responsive multitasking environment while working.
All this, and many of us—perhaps even most of us—are looking at colors that are all wrong. We have our monitors jacked up to eye-hurting brightness levels, a messed-up gamma curve that is blowing out bright whites and crushing dark grays, and color temperature that is all over the map. For all our nit-picking over anti-aliasing quality or the subtle visual differences some new game may present with DirectX 10, we’re often not seeing things the way the content creators intended. We blame our digital cameras when our photos don’t look right on our PC screen, or our printer when the printout looks different.
In short, color calibration matters. You certainly want a good monitor with a wide color gamut, proper gamma curve, and fast response time. But if it’s not set up properly, you’re not seeing things the way they’re meant to be seen. This is one reason we put so much into our lab testing on monitor reviews. But how do you, at home or at work, calibrate your PC monitor for proper gamma, brightness, and color without spending thousands of dollars on colormeters and software? Well, you get one of the small “puck” or “spider” style color calibrators.
Today we examine LaCie’s $400 Blue Eye Pro. Continued…
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