MistaSparkul
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If you think the ISF Expert mode is piss yellow, that is you being used to a very blue tinted image and seeing that as white. Our eyes can be easily deceived like this and many think that a blue tinted screen looks sharper and has "more white" whites. Rtings uses display calibrator hardware for measuring things according to a 6500K white point which is kind of like the daylight white you would see in real life, which is usually warmer rather than blueish. When I calibrated my CRG9 to 120 nits and 6500K, at first I felt that it was way too dark and looked too warm but after getting used to it, now it feels comfortable and accurate. Color accuracy also depends on ambient lighting conditions as well as individual panel variance, which is why you can't just plop in calibration values made on monitor A in environment X and expect them to be perfect on monitor B in environment Y. But they might be a decent starting point nonetheless.
Often display presets are made for what the manufacturer thinks looks most impressive in a store at max brightness under fluorescent lights. That is a completely different situation than running it at home at far lower brightness and in a much darker room or using it during the daytime in bright sunlight. People will usually respond to color settings that produce the most vivid looking colors despite this being usually very inaccurate. Wide gamut LCDs and preset modes on displays clearly show a prevalence of these settings over more accurate ones.
I don't think many people even have a colorimeter to get some actual readings and instead are just basing off their owns eyes to determine what looks proper and what doesn't. Getting a colorimeter was probably one of the best investments I've ever made and I would recommend anyone picking up a $500+ display to invest in one.
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