Juan I. Cabrera

My trust is based on EXTENSIVE testing. Calibration sessions of over 5000 patches and deep comparison. Start putting probes on screens and checking your correction thoroughly and you too will start doubting stuff... also, you can not probe metamerism or different technology perception. Sadly, probing, being a VERY important part of the process, it's only one part of the calibration and monitor matching process. And as much as I would looooooove for all of it to just be hard math, there is a component of perceptual matching and adaptation.

I think one of the main reasons for people going FSI instead of Sony is budget... We got FSI first, but we just got the BVM-X300/2 and we are THRILLED with it!! It's really an amazing monitor. Also, you have like 15 of these at Technicolor and like 20 at Deluxe. It has become the maximum standard for monitoring. I can not talk about the smaller monitors because this is the first time I got back to Sony since the good old tubes. The problem I see with working with alternative brands (like TVlogic, Eizo or FSI) is that I would be second-guessing myself sometimes. Even with some of the best probes (Colorimetry Research) and Color Management software (LightSpace) it will still feel off sometimes. FSI is the best of the bunch, but still I feel it "separates" colors too much in an un-natural way. The X300 feel much more coherent in that regard. J.