Lots of old stuff in the garage.) Given the current state of the industry, that's probably not a good position to be in. Like a lot of staff photographers, I don't have much in the way of cameras or computer gear of my own. The glossy screen takes a little getting used to - it's different from the 30-inch Apple Cinema Display that I use at work, but a little attention paid to the room lighting makes it very usable.Īs for profiling, well so far I have just turned the brightness down to 50% and made some prints on my 3800 that matched as well as any print can match a monitor.
#Imac for photography editing pro
Of course there are issues with expandability, etc., but it's a very nice machine and much faster than either my 2-year old Macbook Pro or my five year old G-5 Dual. I chose this model because it was a refurb that cost $1450 ($250 less than list price.) I added 4 GB more RAM from Other World Computing for about $100. It's just the base model with the dual core 3.06 gHz processor, 1TB drive, and 4 GB RAM. I am writing this post on my new 27-inch iMac. I suppose you could accidentally come across a colorimeter that may work fine with the iMac display but it's a bit of a crap shoot. Only drawback of a spectro is a tendency to introduce slight shadow banding/posterization when used with 8-bit video LUts compared to high-bit internal LUTs. While the EyeOne Pro is a bit pricey compared to your standard colorimeters, unlike a colorimeter it has the advantage of not requiring special tuning for the display's chromaticities.
Everything else about it sounds good though.Ĭalibration for the display? My default recommendation is always the EyeOne Pro spectro and either ColorEyes Display Pro or basICColor Display. While FW800 has very good performance, nothing beats adding hard drives to the internal bus in my opinion.īack to the display.probably only major limitation here would be the lack of "high-bit" internal LUTs such external displays like EIZO, et al. As a workstation, probably only major hindrance would be expansion of storage.you'd have to resort to external storage via the FW800/400 and USB interfaces. They've certainly got the horsepower, storage and memory expansion and the display sounds like it's decent enough for all by the most high-end photo editing needs. Personally, I think the new iMacs would make great photo editing systems.