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I just purchased my 20” apple cinema monitor and am very pleased so far. The picture is fantastic but I do a lot of photography and was wondering if it should be calibrated right out of the box. If so, what methods are recommended? I know a hardware calibrator is best but until I am able to purchase one is there any specific software or techniques I should use?
Using a PC by the way.

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Spending more on a monitor doesn't relieve you of this; in fact the more expensive the monitor, the more likely a calibrator will be included! (On the idea that if you spent that much, it would be unthinkable not to calibrate it to a state better than its generic out-of-the-box behavior.)
Until you buy one, there is apparently some utilities out there that let you eyeball it, but eyeballing is never quite as good as a hardware calibrator because of problems with human color perception, afterimage, etc. all clouding your objectivity.

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