Well I thought that getting a much better monitor would help solve some of my processing challenges and it has, to some extent and added other problems I didn't expect. On getting better color balance and seeing color problems it's helped a great deal. But now I'm working on just luminance and the difference in black levels between the two is amazing and a problem. I bought a used NEC MultiSync LCD2490WUXi professional monitor and recalibrate the monitor every 7 days. The calibration is stored in it's own hardware LUT. The other connected monitor (Hanns HH251) is calibrated via software and the video card. Same color calibration hardware/software but entirely different means of saving and reading the calibration as I understand it. There is a very clear difference in the display of any image between the two.
Long story short for me, now that I'm working on a luminance image of M51 I see even more differences in the background levels. M51 being an image that has varying background levels anyway depending on where on the image you look. In my orientation the lower section of the image is lighter. I could "correct " this using DBE but it is natural for this image. If I use Masked Stretched and choose a background level high in the image (darker) or lower in the image (lighter) there is a big difference in outcomes. I'm curious how to proceed and keep a balance between the two. The difference is rather dramatic between the two as I can clearly see when I drag PI between the two monitors (Extended desktop). I've attached 2 images with M51-1 looking correctly on my NEC monitor and M51-2 about the same on the Hanns. Hopefully the differences should be evident.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
