I am colour blind and I had a hard time comparing the colours viewed from the camera LCD and the laptop screen. The colours from the laptop seemed bluish. Then I realised the laptop was using 6500K colour temperature while the camera was using 5200K. No wonder the laptop colour was much “cooler”. I tried to lower the colour temperature to 5200K to match the camera but there was no setting (neither in the graphic setting nor the bios setting). I googled the Internet and I found F.lux.
This little program makes the colour of the computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. I entered my GPS location and the time zone and it automatically set the temperature of the display according to the time and location of my home. But this was not a feature I wanted. I dragged the day and night coloured temperature and fixed it to 5200K to match my camera. Haa… now my laptop screen displays colours closer to what the camera catches.
by Dennis Lim, on April 20 2010 @ 1:58 pm
This is a good post. I able to set my desktop nearest to the DSLR color.. then better the quality in editing.