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    abonhamc got a reaction from zenmartini in Another X-Pro2 Viewfinder Complaint   
    I went to an outdoor local carshow yesterday morning with the X-Pro2 and I had significant trouble seeing the viewfinder when under direct sun. I am right-eye dominant and do not wear glasses, but like the other gentleman who fashioned his own eyecup, I also feel like I just can't always get my eye close enough to block out stray light. I did find that the EVF was brighter and more easy to use than OVF, because the EVF guidlines and information readout is significantly brighter than the OVF. Fine, but still, I am a little surprised that I've only read a couple of similar complaints. What's a good way to counter this when shade is not available? Do you guys fiddle with the EVF brightness settings? I'm worried that changing that would throw off my interpretations of available light. I don't think i need anything exotic from Fuji, maybe just a finder cup that is the same exact shape and size, but slightly deeper. I am tempted to make my own from Sugru or a Nikon cup, but seeing that I'd have to send my camera to have them to replace the finder cup if I ruin mine, I'm not eager to jump into a DIY project. I figured that by telling you guys about this issue would help raise awareness to Fuji that some alternative options would be appreciated. Thoughts?
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    abonhamc got a reaction from quietlight in Matching EVF and LCD to a calibrated monitor   
    A few more thoughts, but if you're soft proofing in sRGB, be careful to change the profile to your desired output. sRGB is very accurate for most internet uses, but if you're printing your work and you have not calibrated your printer, do your broad color corrections and all brightness/contrast edits proofed for sRGB, then change your proof setup to the free ICC profile for your printing paper available through the paper manufacturer. The free profile download with also include a readme of some kind with instructions on what paper quality you should set in the print dialogue for your specific printer. When changing your soft proofing from sRGB (internet friendly) to your paper profile (print friendly), watch your reds and blue especially. Your once vibrant red stop sign probably has noticeable cyan added. Then look at your blues. Is there too much magenta in your skies? You'll have to tweak different channels if you print frequently without a custom-calibrated profile, but that is the nature of the beast. For example, if I'm making a print on my Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper with my Canon Pro-10, not only must I use the ICC profile available at the Hahnemuhle website for my soft proofing (and also in the printer setup dialogue later), but also set the paper quality in the printer dialogue to Fine Art 1. I have not yet calibrated my printer, but when using free profiles for my papers, I find the colors are very nearly as they appear on my calibrated monitor. I apologize if you knew all of this already; I’m currently preparing a gallery show of film slide scans and some digital work so color accuracy has been on my mind for the past month. If you didn’t know this, hold tight, you’ll get colors you like…eventually.
     
    A great resource for all this color stuff is www.cambridgeincolour.com. They have more tutorials than you'll know what to do with.
     
    Good luck!
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    abonhamc got a reaction from Aswald in Matching EVF and LCD to a calibrated monitor   
    First and foremost, your adjustment settings in the camera are found: menu / ok > set up (wrench icon) > screen set-up
     
    I would venture to guess that it you will never be able to match a monitor very well, there just isn't enough user-accessible adjustments in the camera for that. One method would be to take a photo showing a variety of different colors or even a color chart with the X-Pro2, load it into your computer and open it in Photoshop or whatever your software of choice is, and tune the X-Pro2's LCD color saturation and brightness until it's within an acceptable range. Not great, but better. Also, make sure that your editing software is soft proofing for the same color space that your camera is using. If your X-Pro2 is sRGB, soft proof in sRGB. That will help correct reds and greens especially. As far as the LCD - EVF match, I would get a color checker, by printing one or buying one. The colors don't have to match the manufacturer's specs of what they should be, because it's entirely up to how your eyes perceive them. You can mount your camera on a tripod in an evenly-lit room or outside, and then take a photo of the colors. Display them on the LCD, look at red, greens, and blues first and go back and forth comparing how the colors appear on the EVF and the LCD. It's not an exact science and certainly will not be fool proof, but it can help. Again, color adjustments are limited to brightness and saturation, but it does help some. In my camera, I found that the LCD was far more saturated than the EVF and so I turned the LCD down to -5, and kept the EVF at the baseline 0. Brightness for both is set to 0 and the EVF is set to manual brightness as I didn't like auto brightness.
     
    Hope that helps some.
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    abonhamc got a reaction from quietlight in Matching EVF and LCD to a calibrated monitor   
    First and foremost, your adjustment settings in the camera are found: menu / ok > set up (wrench icon) > screen set-up
     
    I would venture to guess that it you will never be able to match a monitor very well, there just isn't enough user-accessible adjustments in the camera for that. One method would be to take a photo showing a variety of different colors or even a color chart with the X-Pro2, load it into your computer and open it in Photoshop or whatever your software of choice is, and tune the X-Pro2's LCD color saturation and brightness until it's within an acceptable range. Not great, but better. Also, make sure that your editing software is soft proofing for the same color space that your camera is using. If your X-Pro2 is sRGB, soft proof in sRGB. That will help correct reds and greens especially. As far as the LCD - EVF match, I would get a color checker, by printing one or buying one. The colors don't have to match the manufacturer's specs of what they should be, because it's entirely up to how your eyes perceive them. You can mount your camera on a tripod in an evenly-lit room or outside, and then take a photo of the colors. Display them on the LCD, look at red, greens, and blues first and go back and forth comparing how the colors appear on the EVF and the LCD. It's not an exact science and certainly will not be fool proof, but it can help. Again, color adjustments are limited to brightness and saturation, but it does help some. In my camera, I found that the LCD was far more saturated than the EVF and so I turned the LCD down to -5, and kept the EVF at the baseline 0. Brightness for both is set to 0 and the EVF is set to manual brightness as I didn't like auto brightness.
     
    Hope that helps some.
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