Wildlife Photography across the Water: Hardware - Samsung Netbook Colour Balancing

Monday, 20 April 2009

Hardware - Samsung Netbook Colour Balancing

As regular followers of the blog will know, I bought myself a Samsung NC10 Netbook a couple of months ago. This has been a great little bit of kit and have used it for presentations of slide shows among many other uses.

However, one of the problems that I have had is colour balancing the monitor. For my main monitor, I use the X Rite Eye One Display 2 and this does provide a fantastic colour balance for me. But due to screen resolutions it is not possible to use the X Rite on the Netbook. The Samsung with it's little screen res. of 1024 x 600 does not meet the 1024 x 768 res. required for the Eye One 2.

So enter stage left the Huey Pantone - a simple little device that has done the trick. It is incredibly fast and while not as sophisticated as the Eye One 2, will give a substantially improved colour balance than is possible without.

It also can be left in and will provide you with the ambient light moderator.

One to look out for if you are a netbook user

Martin

2 comments:

Edenrover21 April 2009 at 10:01
My 10.2" Medion Netbook will do 1024 X 768 abeit with some scrolling. Right click on the screen, -> choose properties, ->settings, ->Screen Res more, ->apply. works with Canon Dig.Photo.Prof and Freecom DTV-T widget. and surfing you can scroll browser header off screen for a bigger window.

David
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WPATW21 April 2009 at 12:26
David,

Thanks for that - I am afraid that is not the case with the Samsung though - there are two screen res's available

1024 x 600 or 800 x 600

Martin
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Bio's

David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.