Originally posted by TonyW Just buy a generic consumer display that has a gamut somewhere approaching sRGB set it to how you like it and forget matching anything
This is the only part of your post, Tony, that I would respectfully challenge...
More and more serious hobbyist photographers are using, at the very least, software calibration with their screens. And one would hope all professionals already do
Given that photography forums like these are used by some to share their photos with like-minded enthusiasts, is it not better to calibrate one's screens in the hope that at least
some people - those who've
also calibrated their screens - will see a very close reproduction of what was intended?
I remember on these very forums, a few years back, a number of my photos being described as underexposed, amongst other things. I'd been processing my photos based on my preferred screen brightness, and the result was that many folks who used a lower, more accurate brightness setting saw my photos as dark, when they looked just fine to me. That was before I started calibrating my screens. Following calibration, it ceased to be an issue (or, if it was still an issue, the problem was with the viewer's setup, not mine). It didn't, however, solve the lack of skill in my photography!
I'm still working on that