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<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1830607" data-attributes="member: 67742">I managed to find a Colormunki Display (which is actually a step up from the Colormunki Smile) for $100 Cdn.But reading up on it a bit, it doesn't seem to be that easy to actually use it - nothing like setting it up on the display, plugging it into a USB port and clicking calibrate.One think I just came across is a menu setting on the Dell U2412M monitor I'm using.There is a setting for Gamma which was set to &quot;PC&quot;. The other option is &quot;MAC&quot; (All capitals on the monitor, but I assume they mean &quot;Mac&quot;.So I changed the setting from PC to MAC and now the screen looks even brighter than before - and that with a brightness setting of 31%But what I was reading - and that's where I could use some feedback - is that the Mac originally used a different gamma than a PC, so having a PC and Mac option made sense.But now (I'm on ElCapitan), the Mac uses the gamma setting 2.2, same as a PC I believe - so I wonder if the gamma setting &quot;PC&quot; was actually correct at this time.Other general question - does anyone have experience actually calibrating a monitor using one of these Colorimeters?Like I said - seems more complicated than I thought initially; I don't want to lay out the $100 and then find out that the 10 minute calibration that's advertised ends up taking hours.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="krs, post: 1830607, member: 67742"] I managed to find a Colormunki Display (which is actually a step up from the Colormunki Smile) for $100 Cdn. But reading up on it a bit, it doesn't seem to be that easy to actually use it - nothing like setting it up on the display, plugging it into a USB port and clicking calibrate. One think I just came across is a menu setting on the Dell U2412M monitor I'm using. There is a setting for Gamma which was set to "PC". The other option is "MAC" (All capitals on the monitor, but I assume they mean "Mac". So I changed the setting from PC to MAC and now the screen looks even brighter than before - and that with a brightness setting of 31% But what I was reading - and that's where I could use some feedback - is that the Mac originally used a different gamma than a PC, so having a PC and Mac option made sense. But now (I'm on ElCapitan), the Mac uses the gamma setting 2.2, same as a PC I believe - so I wonder if the gamma setting "PC" was actually correct at this time. Other general question - does anyone have experience actually calibrating a monitor using one of these Colorimeters? Like I said - seems more complicated than I thought initially; I don't want to lay out the $100 and then find out that the 10 minute calibration that's advertised ends up taking hours. [/QUOTE]

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