Screen Calibration w/ Colorimeter

[xep]

Has anyone tried using a colorimeter with the SD? If you have, how'd you get it to work, and does the SD load ICC profiles in game mode?

[THE DEATH]

You can use colorimether ofcource. Just install DisplayCal and use any compatible colorimether. When calibrated, use it's profile from monitor color options and it should used every time by default.
Anyway Steam Deck have IPS panel and calibration already a good panel will not make it better. Calibration are for bad/cheap TN panels, and for old panels witch loses colors/brightness over time.

[THE DEATH]

If you have already a colorimether witch are not compatible or not full supported by DisplayCal, you always can calibrate it from Windows and use calibrated profile over Linux.

[ProtaeusNass]

Originally posted by THE DEATH:

You can use colorimether ofcource. Just install DisplayCal and use any compatible colorimether. When calibrated, use it's profile from monitor color options and it should used every time by default.
Anyway Steam Deck have IPS panel and calibration already a good panel will not make it better. Calibration are for bad/cheap TN panels, and for old panels witch loses colors/brightness over time.

You should ALWAYS calibrate, EVERY display you get (no matter how high-end it is) due to panel differentiations during the production procedure. Even an OLED model like the LG C2, with proper calibration, can get from a score of 8.2 (pre cal.) to a 9.6 (post cal.).

[bnr32jason]

Originally posted by THE DEATH:

You can use colorimether ofcource. Just install DisplayCal and use any compatible colorimether. When calibrated, use it's profile from monitor color options and it should used every time by default.
Anyway Steam Deck have IPS panel and calibration already a good panel will not make it better. Calibration are for bad/cheap TN panels, and for old panels witch loses colors/brightness over time.

I know this is a little old, but I came across this while researching calibrating my Steam Deck. Holy crap this is a terrible take.

1) Every display should be calibrated, OLED, IPS, TN, CRT, etc.

2) The Steam Deck screen is IPS, but it is NOT a good screen and could probably really benefit from a calibration.

[ingramli]

Originally posted by bnr32jason:

Originally posted by THE DEATH:

You can use colorimether ofcource. Just install DisplayCal and use any compatible colorimether. When calibrated, use it's profile from monitor color options and it should used every time by default.
Anyway Steam Deck have IPS panel and calibration already a good panel will not make it better. Calibration are for bad/cheap TN panels, and for old panels witch loses colors/brightness over time.

I know this is a little old, but I came across this while researching calibrating my Steam Deck. Holy crap this is a terrible take.

1) Every display should be calibrated, OLED, IPS, TN, CRT, etc.

2) The Steam Deck screen is IPS, but it is NOT a good screen and could probably really benefit from a calibration.

I am not an expert in color management industry, just a hobbyist, but I doubt much could be done to the objective image quality with the control we have over the SD hardware.

Let's say it this way, if you have invest some time in the color management, you should know professional monitors for color management workflow like Eizo's ColorEdge lineup, does utilize high precision LUT (Look-Up-Table) SoC in their premium monitors (CGXXX or CGXXXX), which allow adjustment of signal in the monitor, when measurements are taken from colorimeter or spectrophotometer, the appropriate adjustment offsets are calculated by the internal LUT of the monitor, the PC could send the bit-perfect color signal to GPU without being modified (preserving full 8 or 10 bit resolution per RGB channel), which is known as hardware calibration.

On the other hand, cheaper monitors that are not built with color management in mind, while they could still "adjust" the color, those are usually performed by modifying the signal sent to the GPU and subsequently the monitor, you could get more accurate white point temperature and gamma (usually 6500K, 2.2 for typical sRGB standard), at the cost of color banding, the tradeoff can have significant negative impact to the image quality as the display of SD is not a 10bit one, but only 8bit (or most likely a 6bit + FRC) without internal LUT, performing software calibration on these low quality monitors could HURTS the objective image quality a lot.

You may or may not aware, human eyes do adjust themselves to color temperature, so that won't matter a lot for people not performing color critical task on even if it is a little off, on the other hand the color banding caused by software calibration will just stay and bothers you, especially if you really cares about the image quality and have good eyes.

If you really want to enjoy best possible image quality with SD, I would say external (high end) monitor is the only way to go, spending time tweaking the low gamut LCD on the SD (AFAIK that is less than 70% sRGB gamut coverage) just won't do you much good IMHO....