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Capable, approachable calibration bundle.
"I don't know what's good, but I know what I like." It's an old adage that usually describes an outsider's approach to appreciating art, but it could work as well for a well-calibrated display. When colors are strong and accurate, onscreen content can seem to sing in visual harmony. The trouble is that it's extremely difficult for the average person-heck, even for the experienced expert-to just eyeball changes in color, hue, and tint.
That's where a professional calibration tool like Milori's ColorFacts CF6500 ($2,999) comes in. Using light and color-sensitive meters to measure and report values, calibrators can help match the vision of the content creator with the images on the monitor-be it a plasma, a projector, a CRT, an LCD, or something else. When it's done and done right, skies are blue, grass is actually green, and the picture can be worth the proverbial thousand words. With large-screen display products increasingly being installed both for business and home theater, more users are looking to get the most out of their investments, and calibration is an important business opportunity for knowledgeable AV contractors.
COLOR ME HAPPY
Color and brightness calibration can be a tedious science, but Milori has built a reputation for developing easy-to-use and relatively affordable Windows software featuring graphics that are easy to read and to understand. Thus far that software primarily has been bundled with third-party colorimeters and spectroradiometers. In its new ColorFacts CF6500 bundle, Milori matches branded hardware with a new v. 5 of the ColorFacts software toolkit.
The ColorFacts interface now features about a dozen different test instruments, including a standard CIE chart, histograms, luminance and color temperature meters, color tests, and a built-in test-pattern generator. Forv. 5, Milori adds to the existing thorough gray-scale calibration with new measuring and calibration tools for primary and secondary colors. ColorFacts' CIE chart can also now be viewed in CIE 1931 and uniform 1976 UV space. There's also a new DLP projector color reference.