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From Tom's Hardware site:
"After calibration (at 6500 K), we first considerably improved the black by using maximum contrast and brightness. This time, the white measured 217cd/m² for a very deep black at 0.19cd/m². That is a contrast rate much higher than Samsung's claim of 1,139:1. We pushed the tests even further and got even better results. Brightness of 217cd/m² seems too much. Without changing the contrast settings, still at maximum, we gradually lessened the brightness. The best results we found were with brightness at 30% (instead of 100%). The white was then 130cd/m² and the black at 0.13cd/m². Black, intermediate hues, light shades: everything came over perfectly.
Thrilled by this, we calibrated the monitor at 5000K with a gamma at 2.2, which are very common settings in the world of graphics design. Once more, the 193P behaved very well, at least as well as the really high-end 20" monitors by Eizo and Philips tested recently. With brightness at 40%, the monitor displays white at 108cd/m² and a black close on 0.1cd/m², but some intermediate colors have a DeltaE value higher than 3. The best settings were obtained with brightness at 50%. Then the white is at 126cd/m² for a black at 0.16cd/m², but the DeltaE of all the colors was under 2."
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What tool(s) would he have used to do the calibration? I don't see the included Magic Tune software doing color temperature calibration.
"After calibration (at 6500 K), we first considerably improved the black by using maximum contrast and brightness. This time, the white measured 217cd/m² for a very deep black at 0.19cd/m². That is a contrast rate much higher than Samsung's claim of 1,139:1. We pushed the tests even further and got even better results. Brightness of 217cd/m² seems too much. Without changing the contrast settings, still at maximum, we gradually lessened the brightness. The best results we found were with brightness at 30% (instead of 100%). The white was then 130cd/m² and the black at 0.13cd/m². Black, intermediate hues, light shades: everything came over perfectly.
Thrilled by this, we calibrated the monitor at 5000K with a gamma at 2.2, which are very common settings in the world of graphics design. Once more, the 193P behaved very well, at least as well as the really high-end 20" monitors by Eizo and Philips tested recently. With brightness at 40%, the monitor displays white at 108cd/m² and a black close on 0.1cd/m², but some intermediate colors have a DeltaE value higher than 3. The best settings were obtained with brightness at 50%. Then the white is at 126cd/m² for a black at 0.16cd/m², but the DeltaE of all the colors was under 2."
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What tool(s) would he have used to do the calibration? I don't see the included Magic Tune software doing color temperature calibration.