OT..Eizo ColorNaviagtor and Win7beta

[chris_...@adobeforums.com]

Sorry, I know this isn't related to Photoshop but as some of you have Eizo Monitors. So, I was wondering if you have the same issue as me when trying out Win7 beta.

I know it's still in beta and that it's a little rough around the edges..however, when I run ColorNavigator 5 (tried ver 5.1 to 5.2) It tells me the hardware calibration is not recognised and advises me to unplug the USB and start over....basic the software cannot see the hardware.

sidenote: I tried it on a separate disk with the same hardware and performance seem the same as my Vistax64 with no obvious speed gains...It does have some niffy new features and navigation enhancements....

[Myle...@adobeforums.com]

Well, that's what Beta-testing means. I don't think there's any solution to this other than being a good tester and reporting this to MS and Eizo. Very likely they assigned a different device class or enumeration scheme, so this is a no-go, I'd think. If the software does not look up the correct registry keys, it will never find anything. I guess for the time being, you will have to live without calibration, if you really want to test W7 in your environment.

Mylenium

[chris_...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Mylenium. I can't work on an uncalibrated system so I sent the bug report off last week...I was just curious to see if other had a similar issue.

I'm back on Vista x64 as I don't have time to troubleshoot win7beta.

[Gernot_...@adobeforums.com]

Chris,

if you're insisting on a monitor calibration for
your experimental (beta) system, then you can try
to use your instrument's software (for instance
for EyeOne Display or EyeOne Pro) without Eizo's
color navigator - if it should work under Win7.

In this case the monitor is adjusted manually and
interactively near to the target values (e.g. D65,
Gamma=2.2), and the instrument's software modifies
the LUTs on the graphics card (as usual).

I'm doing this all the time. The pretended higher
accuracy/resolution of the internal LUTs of the
Eizo monitors is hardly perceivable = I can't see
any difference.

Ref. chapter 7,8 here:
<http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/measgamma10022004.pdf>

Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

[chris_...@adobeforums.com]

Oh!, that is interesting....thanks for that.

I'm back on Vistax64 and I'll wait for win7 retail release(again)...
Cheers

Chris

[Rob_K...@adobeforums.com]

Chris,

Couldn't you simply build a profile under Vista, and then select that under Win7?

I dissagree with Gernot about abandoning the internal 10 bit hardware of the Eizo in exchange for the 8 bit LUT of the video card.

Eizo's are very neutral natively, but nevertheless I'd prefer the CN calibration with 4 times the number of steps as opposed to videoLUTs.

Rob

[chris_...@adobeforums.com]

Cheers Rob,

yeah...I could have moved the profile over but I too like the CN calibration...

The software did work in the background but I couldn't open it. I used their default profile which was quite nice and neutral, if a little too saturated in the rgb's , I like to have control over these things to save tweaking it later at the printers.

While win7 is quite nice I'm not going to risk using it when I have commissioned work to do.....and as the 'real world' performance gains were not noticeable I have no reason to use win7. I suspect this will change when it's released with full driver support.

...nice set-up BTW....What's that missile thing on the left? :)

[Rob_K...@adobeforums.com]

What's that missile thing on the left?

That's my Rocket Ship. Whenever I'm done (or fed up) I tend to light the fuse and travel the universe and search for inspiration.

:-)

Rob

[chris_...@adobeforums.com]

:D