monitor calibration, gamma setting

[Wilfried]

Hello all,
I am editing my photos on a laptop (yes, I know that a laptop screen is
suboptimal for this), presenting them on a LCD TV screen (Sony
KDL-32EX402) and some of them are to be printed on an inkjet printer or
a commercial printing service.

I experienced that most jpegs coming from cameras are displayed
satisfactory on the laptop as well as on the TV, and also on printouts.

But the best pictures come from high contrast photos (such as back-light
or dawn). I shoot them in RAW and reduce the high contrast by editing
them on the laptop. These photos either look well on the laptop but are
much too bright on the TV or are OK on the TV and much too dark on the
laptop.
I purchased a colorimeter (Spyder 3 Elite) and started calibrating the
monitors (both the laptop and the TV). I found that using the default
Spyder 3 setting of gamma 2.2 for the monitor does not solve the
problem. If I set gamma to 1.4 in Spyder 3, the photos are looking quite
similar on the laptop and the TV, but now they are looking too dark on
other PCs. (I did not yet test printout of these photos.)

Now my question: Which gamma setting in Spyder 3 is preferable for
calibrating the laptop monitor?
Or, how can I achive good results on the TV as well as on printouts?

Thanks for any hints,
--
Wilfried Hennings
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[Wilfried]

Hello all,
please follow the already started discussion at
alt.graphics.photoshop
(same subject)

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