Can you calibrate a wide-gamut monitor specifically to Display P3?
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I have a Gigabyte M27U monitor with a gamut wider than sRGB. Its built-in sRGB mode looks good, but I’d like to understand whether I can use a colorimeter to calibrate one of the monitor’s other modes to Display P3 (Display P3 / D65, not DCI-P3). Is that something calibration software can do, or do you instead calibrate the monitor to its own native behavior and then measure how closely it matches spaces like sRGB or P3?
Originally by Prithvi Boinpally. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
Prithvi Boinpally
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You don't. You calibrate the monitor so it displays it's RGB color space as accurately as possible. The program will then tell/show you how the monitor's color space compares to other RGB color spaces. I.e. 100% sRGB, 100% P3, 96% adobeRGB, etc. And it may also show the monitor's color space extending beyond the reference color space in areas.
I.e. it is somewhat incorrect to say a display is an sRGB monitor; it is an RGB display. It may also be an RGB display that is also capable of displaying the entire sRGB gamut, or P3, or anything else.
This shows my monitor's color space as currently calibrated (red) in comparison to sRGB (black) as 99% because it is missing a small area lower left; even though it's gamut is larger in all other areas.
And this shows it as being 89% of P3.
Originally by Steven Kersting. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
Steven Kersting
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In general, you don’t calibrate a monitor “to P3” in the sense of turning it into a true Display P3 display. You calibrate/profile the monitor so it reproduces its own RGB behavior as accurately as possible, then the software measures how that calibrated gamut compares with standard spaces such as sRGB, Display P3, or Adobe RGB.
So with a colorimeter, the usual workflow is:
- calibrate white point, tone response/gamma, and brightness
- create an ICC profile for the monitor
- review the reported gamut coverage, such as how much of sRGB or P3 it can display
If your monitor doesn’t fully cover Display P3, calibration won’t create colors the panel cannot reproduce. It can only make the monitor more accurate within its native capabilities.
So the answer is: profile/calibrate the display accurately first, then use the results to see how close it is to Display P3 rather than expecting calibration alone to convert a non-P3 mode into a full P3 mode.
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