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Friday, October 21, 2016

Tuning the LCD Display of the K-1

The default LCD display settings produce too bright colours and it has a blue cast. I therefore corrected it with the following settings, after checking against my carefully calibrated professional monitor, which is calibrated internally with an external colourimeter.


I checked two units of the K-1 and found that they are more or less the same and the above settings work. See if it would work for you and produce better and more accurate results! :-)
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VIktor · 438 weeks ago

"after checking against my carefully calibrated professional monitor" I'm not sure what it means. Could you explain in more details how you've got the settings in the picture?
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RiceHigh 110p · 438 weeks ago

First, I have a well calibrated desktop monitor, then I load same set of photos in my PC and in the K-1 to see them side by side and adjust the LCD display of the K-1 until they look closer with smaller difference. The K-1 can never be as accurate as the calibrated PC monitor, though. Its gamma is well off and can never be corrected for all greys.
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Viktor · 436 weeks ago

So you rely fully on your eyes. Not the best approach I would say. What I did previously is use a colorimeter connected to a PC to measure the white point on the K' monitor thus changing its settings to set up K6500 value. By far, it's the only what can be done to get more accurate colours on the camera's monitor.
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Alexei · 438 weeks ago

Maybe the K-1 display is not calibrated and it is too bright but images look stunning on it! Actually, I adjusted my desktop monitor to the look of the K-1 display :) Now, even when I browse my images on my desktop, they all look gorgeos!
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RiceHigh 110p · 438 weeks ago

A too bright monitor tends to present underexposed images to be correctly exposed, probably it is not a good thing.
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Alexei · 438 weeks ago

1. Taking into account that dark areas can be easily recovered, this is not an issue.
2. It's good to make different ,onitor profiles for different needs. If one needs correct brightness and colours for printing, he/she should use a profile A. If one needs a best looking colours and brightness for viewing on monitor, he/she should use a profile B.
The display on Pentax K-1 tends to represent the latter approach. On the display (and monitors with corresponding settings) photos look extraordinary good! At first, I couldn't manage to make monitor (an old ips monitor) to look same way. On the monitor all photos looked dull. I tried all settings but it was all in vain. I watched the K-1 display, a photo was great. Then I watched my monitor, the same photo looked awuful. I had to make a lot of corrections in Lightroom in order to make my photos look like on the display.
Then I bought a new 4K ips monitor and applied the needed settings to one of the monitor profiles (there are about 7 profiles in my monitor menu). Now I almost don't do anything to my photos in Lightroom, they already look incredible!
For printing I use another monitor profile. Photos don't look as great with it but it's well-known that RGB gamut is much more wider than CMYK. Why limit yourself with bad colours when viewing photos on a monitor?
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jaad75 · 438 weeks ago

Because your photos should look the best possible on every standard calibrated monitor, not just that one with some random settings you're using at the moment.

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