Posted by Chris O'Reilly on December 14, 2010 at 3:49 PM
Hi All
I'm interested in purchasing a MacBook Pro to replace a PC system and will be using it with an Eizo monitor for processing images. However, on occasions I might need to edit on the road and therefore would like to know if anyone as any experience/thoughts on the following:
1. Does the anti-glare, hi-res screen lose much (any) contrast, colour depth, etc compared to the glossy version?
2. How have you found the accuracy for colour-critical work (after screen calibration)?
3. If you use Capture One software are there any significant issues with the combination?
Cheers,
Chris
Posted by Mark Green on December 15, 2010 at 4:26 AM
Hi Chris, answer to your questions
1) the Anti-glare screen is the only option to go for. it improves contrast and depth. much better than glossy screen
2) the screen is as good as any standalone PC screen. colour accuracy is excellent.
3) No issues with Capture one that i can remember.
Posted by Bob Johnson on December 15, 2010 at 4:30 AM
I have a Macbook Pro 13 and an Imac 27. Also I have a PC hooked up to an Eizo screen. A guy called Mike Fuller based in Essex has calibrated them all together with my projector and it works well when viewing the same image on any of the screens. I only use the the Macbook for storage, projecting, and checking images on the road but I would say that it I am delighted with the Mac screens and I think that you will be fine. Mike Fuller tells me that calibrating printers to the Mac can be an issue. However I print via the PC at the moment and so I am ok. I use Canons DPP on the Macs so cannot help with Capture One.
If you are shooting HD vid then imovie works very well with the Canon 5DMkII vid for basic editing and I also use Apples excellent Keynote for presenting slides & video for my talks.
Hope this helps.
Bob
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on December 15, 2010 at 2:24 PM
Chris, I am running a 15" solid state HD MacBook pro, full spec with anti glare when away, its extremely fast. The anti glare is perfect, but to my knowledge you can't calibrate the Mac, that is why all work is done on the Eizo on return home. Battery life isn't as good as my old 17" MB pro, so don't go to long without being close to a socket.
Not sure what issues you thought you would have with C1?
No problems calibrating a 17" glossy screen, don't see much difference between it and the desktop Pro - although I don't do much colour critical stuff on the MacbookPro. I did have some problems calibrating the 20mx10m projection screen I used it with earlier this year tho, had to eyeball that . I picked the glossy screen as I use it to show clients their images and it adds a certain level of 'pop' with nice blacks.
Seriously, you shouldn't have any issues with it - there used to be some issues with earlier versions of Leopard when using a 2nd screen as the profile for the 1st screen was used for the 2nd if two screens where used together. I believe that it's now been resolved in Snow Leopard.
Have had over 8hrs out of the 17" on a single charge (no wifi/bluetooth and lowest screen brightness) for downloading in the field, so happy with that too.
No probs running C1 (early versions though to 5, but don't use it much these days).
This MBA (new version) hasn't really taken a calibration well - its not bad but not perfect - I am looking for a different calibrator as mine is a bit old. That said I would probably do the critical stuff on the Eizo.
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on December 16, 2010 at 6:39 PM
Thanks for the additional information - very useful.
Cheers,
Chris
PS. Steve: Re C1 Pro - not sure either but when I can buy a similar spec PC laptop for a lot less I want to cover as many bases as I can before purchaing a Mac. I'm moving away from PC for the usual reasons but I just want to be sure I'm not buying into a different set of problems.
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7 repliesI'm interested in purchasing a MacBook Pro to replace a PC system and will be using it with an Eizo monitor for processing images. However, on occasions I might need to edit on the road and therefore would like to know if anyone as any experience/thoughts on the following:
1. Does the anti-glare, hi-res screen lose much (any) contrast, colour depth, etc compared to the glossy version?
2. How have you found the accuracy for colour-critical work (after screen calibration)?
3. If you use Capture One software are there any significant issues with the combination?
Cheers,
Chris
1) the Anti-glare screen is the only option to go for. it improves contrast and depth. much better than glossy screen
2) the screen is as good as any standalone PC screen. colour accuracy is excellent.
3) No issues with Capture one that i can remember.
If you are shooting HD vid then imovie works very well with the Canon 5DMkII vid for basic editing and I also use Apples excellent Keynote for presenting slides & video for my talks.
Hope this helps.
Bob
Cheers,
Chris
Not sure what issues you thought you would have with C1?
Seriously, you shouldn't have any issues with it - there used to be some issues with earlier versions of Leopard when using a 2nd screen as the profile for the 1st screen was used for the 2nd if two screens where used together. I believe that it's now been resolved in Snow Leopard.
Have had over 8hrs out of the 17" on a single charge (no wifi/bluetooth and lowest screen brightness) for downloading in the field, so happy with that too.
No probs running C1 (early versions though to 5, but don't use it much these days).
Cheers,
Chris
PS. Steve: Re C1 Pro - not sure either but when I can buy a similar spec PC laptop for a lot less I want to cover as many bases as I can before purchaing a Mac. I'm moving away from PC for the usual reasons but I just want to be sure I'm not buying into a different set of problems.