X-Rite Colormunki & i1 Display Pro LCD Calibration Tool Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to an unboxing that is actually pretty fascinating for me so this is a
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this is going to be two different unboxings at the same time this is going
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to be the color monkey from xrite and the i1 display Pro from x-rite these are
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both uh display calibration devices
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which have a couple of different well differences so the color monkey for
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example for starters can be used for either displays or for
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projectors and it can be used in a couple of different ways to achieve that
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the whole setup process takes about 5 minutes and it is useful for a number of
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different things so number one is it actually allows you to so it has a
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sensor that you here and I've opened this before I've
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actually used it already so I'm pretty impressed with the results so I decided
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to do a video about it so it's got a color sensor here which you basically
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put up against the the screen and then it takes some readings it changes what's
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on the screen and then it basically adjusts the profile of your of your
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video output in order to make it match as closely as possible to what's real
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now what's cool about this is that you then take it and stick it on your desk
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where it acts as an ambient light sensor and it will continue if it's still
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plugged in by USB to your computer it will continue to adjust your monitor
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settings according to what the ambient light situation is to make sure that
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you're always looking at as accurate an image as possible which is very cool
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like outstanding um so why would you want the most accurate possible color
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well if you're working with anything to do with print then you want to make sure
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that these colors are as calibrated as these colors and they're both as similar
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as possible that's very important um if you're doing anything to do with graphic
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design you want to make sure that whatever you're working on is going to look correct no matter where it's being
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viewed or as close as possible and you want to again be working with as
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accurate as possible colors and no this will not turn your TN panel into you
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know a perfect display for graphic
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design and photo work unfortunately not you will still need a good highquality
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display and there's no getting around that but this will take your nonf
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factory calibrated Monitor and almost no monitors unless they're very high in
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professional ones or something like ASUS's PA series we got one over there
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that we use for our uh monitoring while we're filming right there Pro art um
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those come factory calibrated but most of them do not so here you go you got a
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monitor calibration ambient light measurement as well projector
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calibration by setting it up on a little stand like this there's a there's
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a way to do this you're going to have to trust me on this there you go you can uh
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calibrate your projector that way very cool stuff so before and after automatic
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display control y y y new state-ofthe-art etc etc it's also not
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that expensive I mean it used to be it wasn't that long ago that any kind of
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color calibrator device was going to be running a couple hundred bucks but
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that's not really the case anymore so something like the color monkey is something you could actually buy just
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for home use no big deal now the i1 display Pro the biggest difference that
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we found was oh oh right it can be right so it can be used for FL fluorescent
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back lights LED as well as wide gamma
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LCDs so you don't have to worry about what kind of LCD you have you know is it
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going to work is it not going to work it will work so this guy right here not
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only can It calibrate your display or your projector it can also be used for
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qcing displays so let's say you are a I
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know graphic design studio or something and you're not buying you know $1,500
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each monitors that are come pre-calibrated and are perfect so let's
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say you're like you know a real company that's not running on like a baller
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budget you grab one of these and then the displays that you bring in you can
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use this to QC them you can go okay um I
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hold on just a sec right so you can specify what kind of Deltas you expect
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and you can actually display quality check and trending over time so that's
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really cool because you can get it to pay attention to oh yeah right and you
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can actually Match multiple monitors and work groups as well so this is all neat
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because let's say you have like a lab and you're buying 10 monitors every quarter or whatever else you can use
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this to keep track of are they getting better are they getting worse are they
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all matching so that if someone moves from one workstation to another one
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working on a project day one to day two they don't have to make a bunch of
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adjustments and they won't think that something's wrong so that's the
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difference between the more professional oriented one versus is the color monkey
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so there's also okay what else they got here so you guys can see what they have
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going for them you can actually check out the xray site if you want to get
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more information um trending over time
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trending over time is more of an issue with um ccfl backlit monitors LEDs don't
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really suffer from that nearly as much um as well as projectors that's a big
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deal with projectors and I think that pretty much
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covers it so thank you for checking out this dual unboxing of the i1 display Pro
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