Comments on: OSX Not Colour Calibrated

By: Roman Tarnavski

Roman Tarnavski — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:15:14 +0000

bubuli,

Absolutely - I can see what you mean. The image is extremely blue in Firefox, yet in Safari its purple.

It seems that OSX isn’t assigning the profile of the monitor that that image is being displayed on to the applications, and re-using the Default profile.

Thanks for sharing.

By: bubuli

bubuli — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:25:53 +0000

wow. for a while i thought i needed to upgrade my monitor calibration (i have the same one you have but the first version). this *somewhat* explains why this
photo shows up with a purple sky on Safari but not on Firefox. I said “somewhat” because I’m seeing this difference on my calibrated MBP display and not on an external monitor.

By: Roman Tarnavski

Roman Tarnavski — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:31:47 +0000

Dan,

The price point of the ACD makes it out of my reach.

Plus given the positive reviews of previous Dell screens made this one so attractive for me.

Do let me know how you go - I will be giving Dell a call tomorrow.

Mind you - I did notice - even on the calibrated MBP screen with the eye1 - some of the blues are out - and look purple.

Will have to do a final calibration tonight on both screens - and tomorrow will start getting it sorted with Dell.

Thanks for stopping by,

By: Dan Weil

Dan Weil — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:40:03 +0000

I am having similar problems, only with red, on the same model of monitor, which I bought last week. (see my entry on your DPReview thread.) I have been getting lots of advice from Colorvision, maker of the Spyder2 Pro calibrator that I am using. I’ll let you know what I find out. One thing is clear, don’t judge by how things look in the browser, especially Safari, which seems to kick up the red, thus giving you that purple.

I’m curious, why’d you get the Dell and not the Apple 23″ display? I am thinking of returning my Dell 2408 WFP if I cannot get this resolved finally, and blowing the bucks on the Apple.

Thanks.

Dan