I have a BenQ SW240 monitor. I calibrated it for the Adobe RGB color space using Palette Master Ultimate and a datacolor SpyderX Elite colorimeter. Today, I was playing with the buttons on the front (lower right) of the monitor. I pushed the far-left button (it says "Color Mode Hotkey") and the "sRGB" option was selected. If I push the button twice and select "Adobe RGB", the colors of the monitor change drastically. I wonder what that means. Does it mean I have been wrong in the last weeks thinking that my monitor is displaying in the Adobe RGB color space when it still displaying in the sRGB color space? Your comments will be appreciated. Thanks for your excellent videos.
Those are pre calibrated color mode from the factory. I would take a look at this th-cam.com/video/Ipuaf5yHrog/w-d-xo.html and this th-cam.com/video/Cgo2p7jF3n0/w-d-xo.html and if you have any questions please post a new comment :)
Hello, very good content as always. I have a question I hope you can help me, I have the BenQ SW270C and I am using the PMU with Colorchecker Display Plus and using the Photography (Adobe RGB) profileI only made one modification and enabled the Enhanced Gamma Calibration checkbox, when I do the calibration with that option activated the images with gradients has banding and without that option everything looks fine, any suggestions? Thank you very much.
For now I would use it without that option, can you send me the file that you are setting banding via wetransfer? Also what computer, OS, display cable connection and etc?
Hi Art I’m having a issue with trying to use PMU to calibrate 2 SW272U monitors. At first the software recognizes the two monitors and has a pop up for me to identify them by clicking the name with a (1) or (2) behind it based on which screen is blinking to bind them. I do that step but when I select the monitor I want to calibrate the PMU software window jumps to the opposite monitor from the one I assigned based on the blinking screen. This puts the calibration process on the opposite monitor. The work around was selecting the opposite monitor on the first step so it calibrates the first monitor and ICC profile gets attached to it but when I’m trying to clone the other monitor based on the first calibration and do the same step 1 (pick the opposite monitor to bind them) once calibrated the icc profile to that monitor doesn’t get automatically assigned but instead gets assigned to the first monitor I calibrated and measured to clone. Not sure if you have tested this, I’m on a Mac Studio M2 Ultra on Mac OS 14.0 and latest PMU software with (2) SW272U’s connected via usbc, the monitor firmware was updated before calibration.
I have tested a scenario close to this but not exact. I'll have to give this another run. For now, best to do is calibrate 1 display at a time. Do this by disconnecting the display cable from the one that you are not calibrating completely. Calibrate one and then swap the display. Just make sure that you use the same respective ports on each of the display. i.e. if display 1 is using USB C - calibrate it with USB , if display 2 is using HDMI then calibrate it with HDMI. Don't swap to a different cable connector after the calibration.
@@ArtIsRight thanks for the quick reply I’ll give this a shot. I’m also using one pick for both monitors my assumption is that if I do it one at a time and assign each calibration to slot 1 hopefully they retain their respective icc profile from the calibration. I’ll try this in the next couple days. Thanks again.
Hi Art, after viewing your video here i recently tried to use the display cloning to calibrate 2 SW272u monitors. Everything works perfectly well until i tried calibrating the second monitor as per your video at 9.15. Then everything messes up.. while calibrating the second display from measurements taken from the primary monitor, the calibration will effect the primary monitor to the extend it will change the colour gamut and parameters of the primary monitor.. then the calibration of the second monitor will fail. The colours in the primary monitor will also be effected to the extend that i had to recalibrate the primary monitor. Anything I am doing wrong?
@@ArtIsRight Thanks Art. I calibrated each of my SW270c monitors yesterday. They both passed the validation with flying colours but one of them is giving me sunburn because it's so bright. I was unaware of the ability to match displays, so should this be the way I go? I use one monitor for editing in Lightroom with the other as the large preview so I can see what's happening fullscreen. Should I calibrate the main editing screen and clone the other?
I have a BenQ SW240 monitor. I calibrated it for the Adobe RGB color space using Palette Master Ultimate and a datacolor SpyderX Elite colorimeter. Today, I was playing with the buttons on the front (lower right) of the monitor. I pushed the far-left button (it says "Color Mode Hotkey") and the "sRGB" option was selected. If I push the button twice and select "Adobe RGB", the colors of the monitor change drastically. I wonder what that means. Does it mean I have been wrong in the last weeks thinking that my monitor is displaying in the Adobe RGB color space when it still displaying in the sRGB color space? Your comments will be appreciated. Thanks for your excellent videos.
Those are pre calibrated color mode from the factory. I would take a look at this th-cam.com/video/Ipuaf5yHrog/w-d-xo.html and this th-cam.com/video/Cgo2p7jF3n0/w-d-xo.html and if you have any questions please post a new comment :)
Hello, very good content as always. I have a question I hope you can help me, I have the BenQ SW270C and I am using the PMU with Colorchecker Display Plus and using the Photography (Adobe RGB) profileI only made one modification and enabled the Enhanced Gamma Calibration checkbox, when I do the calibration with that option activated the images with gradients has banding and without that option everything looks fine, any suggestions? Thank you very much.
For now I would use it without that option, can you send me the file that you are setting banding via wetransfer? Also what computer, OS, display cable connection and etc?
@@ArtIsRight Hello, I don't know if there is something wrong, I replied with the wetransfer link but was deleted.
you can dm me the wetranfer link or use my email which is listed in the about section of my page.
@@ArtIsRight Thank you for your time answering my question, I just sent you an email with all the information. Have a great day!
Hi Art I’m having a issue with trying to use PMU to calibrate 2 SW272U monitors. At first the software recognizes the two monitors and has a pop up for me to identify them by clicking the name with a (1) or (2) behind it based on which screen is blinking to bind them. I do that step but when I select the monitor I want to calibrate the PMU software window jumps to the opposite monitor from the one I assigned based on the blinking screen. This puts the calibration process on the opposite monitor. The work around was selecting the opposite monitor on the first step so it calibrates the first monitor and ICC profile gets attached to it but when I’m trying to clone the other monitor based on the first calibration and do the same step 1 (pick the opposite monitor to bind them) once calibrated the icc profile to that monitor doesn’t get automatically assigned but instead gets assigned to the first monitor I calibrated and measured to clone. Not sure if you have tested this, I’m on a Mac Studio M2 Ultra on Mac OS 14.0 and latest PMU software with (2) SW272U’s connected via usbc, the monitor firmware was updated before calibration.
I have tested a scenario close to this but not exact. I'll have to give this another run. For now, best to do is calibrate 1 display at a time. Do this by disconnecting the display cable from the one that you are not calibrating completely. Calibrate one and then swap the display. Just make sure that you use the same respective ports on each of the display. i.e. if display 1 is using USB C - calibrate it with USB , if display 2 is using HDMI then calibrate it with HDMI. Don't swap to a different cable connector after the calibration.
@@ArtIsRight thanks for the quick reply I’ll give this a shot. I’m also using one pick for both monitors my assumption is that if I do it one at a time and assign each calibration to slot 1 hopefully they retain their respective icc profile from the calibration. I’ll try this in the next couple days. Thanks again.
Hi Art, after viewing your video here i recently tried to use the display cloning to calibrate 2 SW272u monitors. Everything works perfectly well until i tried calibrating the second monitor as per your video at 9.15. Then everything messes up.. while calibrating the second display from measurements taken from the primary monitor, the calibration will effect the primary monitor to the extend it will change the colour gamut and parameters of the primary monitor.. then the calibration of the second monitor will fail. The colours in the primary monitor will also be effected to the extend that i had to recalibrate the primary monitor. Anything I am doing wrong?
Which monitor is the i1 plugged into?
does not matter - you can plug it in to the computer as well.
@@ArtIsRight Thanks Art. I calibrated each of my SW270c monitors yesterday. They both passed the validation with flying colours but one of them is giving me sunburn because it's so bright. I was unaware of the ability to match displays, so should this be the way I go?
I use one monitor for editing in Lightroom with the other as the large preview so I can see what's happening fullscreen. Should I calibrate the main editing screen and clone the other?
Yes try to display clone