Best Calibration Tool for QD-OLEDs

[Lambetts]

I see what your saying. Thanks for this. Thanks everyone for spending the time in replying. I really appreciate it.

Well, looks like the only one I can get my hands on is the Colourbrite ColorChecker Pro. People are saying get one before there’s non left lol. It makes sense that these are better overall (especially at lower nits) and I should be able to get a really good result with this and using displayCal.

[Vincent]

Remember to try first “wide led” measurement mode on Spyder X and see if you got a whitepoint that looks white.

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[Lambetts]

Thanks for your reply.

Yeah I have done and things are OK. One other conundrum is that, what if I get the CBD Pro and the results are very similar… Spose we’ll never know. Lol.

[Lambetts]

Thanks again guys. Got the Colourbrite rocking up soon.

Just want to calibrate my laptop, which also has an oled screen. Apart from attempting to adjust saturation through nvidia CP (first when calibrating the RGB and brightness using DisplayCal) , has anyone got any other suggestions on how to get this measurement right? Obviously there’s no physical way to do it on a laptop screen. ☺️

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[Vincent]

has anyone got any other suggestions on how to get this measurement right? Obviously there’s no physical way to do it on a laptop screen. ☺️

6axis controls in custom/user color preset, if monitor has one of those, then simulare sRGB. Use HCFR for measurements

or

novideosRGB (lut-matrix-lut, GPU HW), nvidia, based on ICC profile at native gamut
AMD driver(lut-matrix-lut, GPU HW), based on EDID native gamut coords
DMWLUT (LUT3D, GPU shaders), all GPUs, based on ICC profile at native gamut

[Lambetts]

Thanks Vincent. ☺️ I appreciate your response.

Sorry to be such a noob… With using novideo, can I manually adjust RGB values to be inline with display cal initial setup/readings? So with my monitor, your correct, I can adjust my rbg values manually via saturation, RGB and / or the 6 axis options. With my laptop, unfortunately, no such adjustments. I have attempted in nvidia control panel to do this manually but it seems to make no difference to the readings. Now this could be (as I’m waiting for my Colourbrite to arrive) I’m using a spyder x elite, this could be the issue. Lol

[Marcello Frisina]

Hey were you ever successful in calibrating your QD OLED? I’ve had trouble calibrating mine. I’ve tried the i1 pro and the Calibrite Display Plus HL. Both result in pretty consistent, but wrong results to my eyes. The calibration reports are great as far as the numbers go, but that’s just not how it looks to my eyes. To check for perceptual matches, I’m comparing the QD OLED to a hardware LUT calibrated display and my MacBook pro’s XDR screen, neither of which are “perfect” reference but are certainly as close as I can get with my current budget and equipment (and certainly good enough for my profession as a graphic designer/animator). I note this here because, in the past, whenever I’ve come to the DisplayCal forums stating I see something wrong with my QD-OLED’s calibration, it almost always results in someone telling me my eyes must be lying to me, or doubting the accuracy of my referenced displays. My calibration reports are excellent, the methodology is sound, settings are all correct. It should, in theory, be an excellent calibration. But again, comparing the display to a few other displays which I understand to be fairly accurate, the QD-OLED is the odd one out. To be abundantly clear: I’m not claiming those two displays I use for cross-reference are perfect, but they’re both independently calibrated and match quite closely visually. Despite the fact that I don’t have a spectra to verify them, the mere fact that they were independently calibrated by two different sources, different equipment, and came back roughly identical, is a strong enough indication to me that they are fairly accurate. The fact that my QD OLED looks different from them is a red flag that indicates the issue lies with the QD OLED, and not my other displays.

Anyway, the issue I have been dealing with is that colors appear a tad less saturated on my QD-OLED. Not sure why, but this is just how it looks to my eyes post calibration. This is especially apparent when I toss up images in the sRGB space for cross reference. The QD OLED, post calibration, is notably less saturated when displaying full red and green sRGB colors. This isn’t extreme, not so glaring as to indicate something significant went wrong with the calibration method, just subtle enough that it is a problem for me when doing color sensitive work.

If you have a method for calibrating your QD OLED that works, maybe that could help my situation, so I thought I’d ask. Thanks for your time.

[Vincent]

Hey were you ever successful in calibrating your QD OLED? I’ve had trouble calibrating mine. I’ve tried the i1 pro and the Calibrite Display Plus HL. Both result in pretty consistent, but wrong results to my eyes. The calibration reports are great as far as the numbers go, but that’s just not how it looks to my eyes. To check for perceptual matches, I’m comparing the QD OLED to a hardware LUT calibrated display and my MacBook pro’s XDR screen, neither of which are “perfect” reference but are certainly as close as I can get with my current budget and equipment (and certainly good enough for my profession as a graphic designer/animator). I note this here because, in the past, whenever I’ve come to the DisplayCal forums stating I see something wrong with my QD-OLED’s calibration, it almost always results in someone telling me my eyes must be lying to me, or doubting the accuracy of my referenced displays.

Likely that you do not understand what has been explained to you, and there is little can be done about that.

My calibration reports are excellent, the methodology is sound, settings are all correct. It should, in theory, be an excellent calibration.

Here’s an example of not understanding at all what has been explained to you.

But again, comparing the display to a few other displays which I understand to be fairly accurate, the QD-OLED is the odd one out. To be abundantly clear: I’m not claiming those two displays I use for cross-reference are perfect, but they’re both independently calibrated and match quite closely visually. Despite the fact that I don’t have a spectra to verify them, the mere fact that they were independently calibrated by two different sources, different equipment, and came back roughly identical, is a strong enough indication to me that they are fairly accurate. The fact that my QD OLED looks different from them is a red flag that indicates the issue lies with the QD OLED, and not my other displays.

There are known CCSS to measure them an you were unable to do that.

Anyway, the issue I have been dealing with is that colors appear a tad less saturated on my QD-OLED. Not sure why, but this is just how it looks to my eyes post calibration.

Then you shoudl be able to measure xyY on primaries.

This is especially apparent when I toss up images in the sRGB space for cross reference.

and sRGB color managed primaries too (simulation profile if widegamut)

The QD OLED, post calibration, is notably less saturated when displaying full red and green sRGB colors.

Measure them color managed and uncolor managed on all the displays. Maybe they are actually different!

This isn’t extreme, not so glaring as to indicate something significant went wrong with the calibration method, just subtle enough that it is a problem for me when doing color sensitive work.

Measure the 3 displays are instructed or your posts are pointless. Also use big patch size, since you may be suffering ABL, so if there is some kind of ABL on SDR modes, let ot kick in to measure its effects.

If you have a method for calibrating your QD OLED that works, maybe that could help my situation, so I thought I’d ask. Thanks for your time.

-Display on SDR mode, always (regarding ICC color management).
-Turn off Windows Auto color management (if using Windows), “ACM”, because it will use EDID primaries as “display profile”, not the ones in sRGB preset on OSD. Of couse this effect is measurable by device and visible to your eyes.
-Visual match whites to a  reference
-calibrate grey
-Single curve + matrix or XYZLUT depens on how bad display is, on all non linearities in 3D volume colorspace. If a single curve matrix verifies its profile OK, then it look well behaved (can use matrix ICC profiles accurately).

… and that’s it.

If after this there is a visual mismatch color managed, like an sRGB image rendered on Photoshop while display is on the widegamut OSD mode you used to calibrate it (the only OSD preset that you can actually use wit that ICC profile), measure sRGB primaries on photoshop (HCFR, spotread… et cetera). If they are under saturated they can be measured…

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