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User profile for user: Stieglitz
Stieglitz Author
User level: Level 1
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What color space does Adobe's Cinema Display have?

I just calibrated my Macbook Pro with a Spyder3Elite and got a bit desapointed when I descovered that the best color space it can show is sRGB. After finding this, and since I've been thinking about buying an iMac for a while, I got a bit frightened. Thus, I changed my atention to Adobe's Cinema Display in hope that it has a larger color gamut.


The thing is I can't seam to find anyone that can tell me what color space does this displays can produce, iMac nor Cinema Display. If there's anyone who has already calibrated any of these displays, can you tell me what's the best color space they can work on?


Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), Macbook Pro 15' i7

Posted on Aug 19, 2011 12:10 PM

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User profile for user: Ledgem
Ledgem
User level: Level 1
60 points

Aug 21, 2011 6:55 PM in response to Stieglitz

Your question is unclear, at least to me. The monitor can work with any color space - the calibration doesn't have to do with that. The calibration creates a color profile unique to that monitor so that the monitor shows the same colors, whites, and blacks as other calibrated monitors.


Are you referring to the problem mentioned on this webpage? http://www.gballard.net/photoshop/srgb_wide_gamut.html If so, as I understand it, that webpage complains about colorspace issues for untagged images (images where a colorspace is not assigned to an image). It's unclear to me exactly what the author's problem is, as it sounds more like an issue with Mac OS X than with an Apple display (Mac OS X assumed sRGB for untagged images).


If that doesn't clarify things, could you rephrase your question?

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User profile for user: Stieglitz
Stieglitz Author
User level: Level 1
8 points

Aug 22, 2011 11:36 AM in response to Ledgem

Ok, I'll try to be clearer to the best of my abilities.


1st off, There are 2 kinds of color spaces. Device-dependent and device-independent. Hence, a display has a limited color gamut that it can produce, it has it's own color space.


When I calibrated mine, this was the result:

User uploaded file

Purple: Adobe RGB 1998

Green: sRGB

Red: Display's Gamut


The thing is, before I calibrated my monitor, I thought it had an Adobe RGB 1998. Got pretty desapointed when I found out it didn't... Nevertheless, what I'm looking is to know if there's any Apple display with a larger gamut than the one from my Mac or if they're all sRGB...


Hope to have been more clear this time.

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What color space does Adobe's Cinema Display have?

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