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The Offset Podcast EP024: Calibration
We hope you had a great holiday season! The Offset Podcast is back for Season 2. We publish an episode every two weeks, and for Season 2 (2025), we’re excited to discuss a wide range of exciting topics.
In this episode, we explore a subject that should be important to everyone who cares about image quality and accuracy—calibration. While this episode is not encyclopedic, it should give you a high-level overview of modern calibration.
Topics covered in this episode include:
- The importance of calibration & why calibration = the truth
- Using color bars to set a monitor baseline isn’t calibration
- How standards guide calibration
- Calibration and monitor perfection is unattainable - the goal is to eliminate visual deviations from reference as much as possible.
- Understanding the parts of a closed-loop calibration system
- Colorimeters
- Spectroradiometers
- Creating display-specific offset matrices for a colorimeter with a spectroradiometer
- Pattern generators
- Pattern/Patch size and understanding the basics of loading behavior
- Calibration software
- Direct device control within calibration software
- Meter placement
- Challenges of calibrating projectors vs. direct-view monitors
- Understanding what calibration can’t do & recalibration considerations
- Is auto calibration any good?
- Hiring a professional calibrator
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