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To be honest, I am also clueless what the heck is going wrong, but I can assure you, that we are not hallucinating ;) I am having these problems since I got my macbook, back in November but started to look into it just a few days ago as it was driving me insane...

 

Bad profiles could be sure the issue. I will try to find an updated version of the Spyder software and investigate in this direction.

Andrew, who describes the same problem at the luminous landscape forum, suggests that this could be a color management bug related to the Core 2 Duo CPUs. Godfrey, does this Macbook of your partner have a Core Duo or a Core 2 Duo CPU? It's a wild guess, I know, but this is at least a possibility who would point out why there aren't many more people having the same problem, while there are at least two.

Yes, this seems to be the same problem. I'll contact him and will post any results we can work out. Thanks for the hint!

Godfrey: I just rechecked, but exactly these settings are active and hopefully working. Unfortunately colors in Lightroom look the same as in Photoshop, as both programs are just ignoring the profile setting from Mac OS.

 

I know this sounds crazy, but I checked everything at least three times. I recalibrated the display multiple times, ensured the ICC profile is active and working. Still no effect, the same appearently wrong behaviour from all Adobe applications. As if they don't know the display is using a color profile...

Well, on my windows system I can view any image in a website or by loading into Photoshop, and the colors stay consistently the same, of course only when I take colorspaces etc. in account. But when I do that, colors are consistent.

 

When I view an image on a Webpage in Firefox/Windows and compare it to my color managed Mac running Firefox or Safari, colors are the same. If I open that picture with Photoshop on Windows, colors stay the same. If I open the same picture in Photoshop on the Mac, colors suddenly change until I active the soft proofing and select the color profile created by the Spyder software. Then the colors match again.

In OS X the color profile is stored in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/. I can access it via the ColorSync Utility and it does not contain any errors.

Hello everybody,

 

I am having serious trouble getting the color calibration stuff to work under

MacOS X. On my older Windows Box, I am successfully using the following setup:

The display (Samsung Syncmaster 900NF CRT) is calibrated with a Spyder2, this

profile is loaded at windows startup. Running any Adobe applications (normally

Lightroom and Photoshop) gives me always the corrected color for my display. My

color workspace is ProPhoto RGB. Before saving for any web application, I

convert the colorspace to sRGB. This works consistently and normally flawless.

 

I used the same approach for my new Macbook, but this doesn't work out as

expected. After the calibration of the display (with a gama of 2.2, as in

Windows) the new ICC profile is selected in the color tab of the display

settings. When I view any image with my web browser, it shows the same colors as

my windows monitor. When using any Adobe Application, the situation is

different. Any picture, in Lightroom or Photoshop, is displayed without the

color corrections. After I soft proof the image with View->Proof Setup->Monitor

RGB, the colors match again. This would solve my problem when using Photoshop,

but in Lightroom there is no such option - but I don't think this is the

intended behaviour of color management on the mac, or is it?

 

I really tried to understand the principles of color management, color working

spaces and calibration, but I fail to understand why this does not work - it

does on windows (yes I know, Windows is broken for a lot of color related stuff,

but this doesn't look broken to me). Please point out any mistakes I made and

feel free to call me a moron if I oversaw something obvious or didn't RTFM

enough ;-)

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Manuel

I'm also still a film shooter, but now it's only a matter of money until I'll be off to digital. Here's my current Canon lineup:<br />

<br />

<ul><li>Canon EOS 3 - I absolutely <i>love</i> that camera!</li>

<li>Canon EOS 30 - apart from the dim viewfinder an excellent camera, but a bit too light for my taste.</li>

<li>Canon EOS 300V - my first SLR, bought in summer 2002.</li>

</ul><br />

Next to them I also own a Canon AE-1 with a 50mm/F1.8 S.C. which broke down a few months ago and some other non-canon manual focus cameras. <br />

Consider the Crumpler bags - I am using the Crumpler Daily L which fits your equipment nicely. It's comfortable and is built very durable. They give lifetime warranty on the material and workmanship. Check their webpage: http://www.crumpler.com.au

Just turn the handle until it won't go any further. If the mechanism still works correctly, you should have advanced the correct amount of film to the next exposure.

 

It's a great camera, have fun! :-)

I am very fond of the crumpler bags. I am currently using the Daily L, which fits two bodys, two extra lenses and of course accessoires and features a laptop compartment.

 

Crumpler has a large selection of sling bags and backpacks in several sizes and colors. The quality of their bags is outstanding and the material resistant against water und dirt so you can take them on your next trekking trip ;) I can highly recommend them.

A very good, open source gallery software is "Gallery" in its Version 2. It runs with PHP and has a lot of powerful features, but still runs quick. Very good for larger galleries! You can get it here: http://gallery.menalto.com/

 

Manuel