Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Good news, you can have your laptop calibrated. Though you might be better off buying a calibrator yourself (I paid $70 for a used Spyder 2 pro - more than happy)

Monitor & Printer Colour Calibration - ICC Profiling

Laptop at Pikto
$25.00

It's a waste of money for several reasons:

- laptops usually only have 6 bit colour rather than 8bit, and even if 8bit can't show the entire sRGB colour gamut (forget about AdobeRGB colour on a laptop unless you ordered the wide gamut panel.
- if where you do your image editing doesn't have the same light level as the room at Pikto.

I've been asked many times if I could calibrate people's laptops at the camera club I belong to since we have our own calibrator for doing our projector...but I tell them it's not worth it for those reasons.

well, it may not be ideal, but i dont see the problem with at least getting their laptops closer to what it should be. People show off pictures on their laptops and it would be nice to know at least that their colors are not WAAAY off.

Yes, it's nice to get the calibration done even for a laptop. The pictures I have on my my macbook are pretty close to the actual prints I printed so I'm happy to get my macbook calibrated.