Screen calibration how often?
Hey, a question for the specialists
You can calibrate laptops, televisions, and other devices, so the colors are adjusted to match reality. I know that with laptops, the calibration needs to be renewed every four to six weeks, as the colors on the screens change over time.
Do you have to do this with TVs too? Theoretically, yes.
Once a year is enough… especially since the settings usually don't change and can't change! < unless you play around with the screen! ^^+gg
The age of the device has nothing to do with it! < Unless you bought a very poor quality one!
I work in the graphics industry and use color profiles and calibration. I check my monitors once a year… I've had my three monitors and my TV for 4-5 years, and so far, EVERYTHING (!) has been perfect, and no recalibration has been necessary!
If I have to have my equipment checked and calibrated every 4 to 6 weeks, I'd rather throw the parts in the trash and buy new ones! < That would be cheaper!
Many professional photographers have purchased their own spider to calibrate themselves.
Is cheaper
Phew… bold statement…
Nope. Even the good devices, not for nothing do the most expensive EIZO monitors have a built-in calibrator that constantly measures and recalibrates the device
then you would think you should know much better
Do you think that you might be doing something wrong?
only if you buy cheap stuff otherwise constantly buying new things would cost a lot of money, especially if you think about it a bit and realize that the new device also needs to be calibrated first!
Once correctly calibrated, it should be sufficient for the average user for longer than just a few months, since the degeneration rate of the individual color components within the pixels in modern LCD or LED screens is no longer as high as it was in the early days of these technologies.
Sure, in professional image and video editing you could do this a bit more often, but even there, as far as I know, depending on the screen technology, it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be with the reduction in the luminosity of the individual pixel primary colors red, green and blue on the screen over the period of use of the screen.
But as I said, it also depends on the basic panel technology used and the age of this technology, or rather the screen itself, for professional purposes.
Calibration of a television is questionable anyway, especially when it's done by some idiot from Media Markt or something like that…
A TV like this should look good, so you don't have to do any color-correcting work on it, so it doesn't matter if the thing is a bit off.
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Begründung? 😊
What's the point of doing it more often? Once you've set it up, nothing will change.
Okay, I won't do it
Yes, but only slightly, and it takes some time. Hence, 4-6 weeks.
You don't notice it, but it is no longer calibrated
When mine is not
This is wrong… The screen changes its colors after a while