Why Don't Camera's Have Raw Histograms?

That's fine :-) I am just posting what exposure and "proper/optimal" exposure mean to me when I use them in sentences so there is no misunderstanding.

Both terms mean different things to different people.

The Eizo monitors do not have a spectrophotometer built-in, they have a colorimeter for automated self-calibration; but it is still pretty slick. For anyone that isn't clear on the difference an excellent general overview of display calibration devices can be found here. The automated self-calibration was innovative enough for Eizo to receive an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical achievement. The automatic calibration originated in Eizo medical monitors which is a much larger market for them.

The accuracy and uniformity of Eizo monitors can be seen in the tests from German language website Prad, translated thanks to Google Translate. The built-in colorimeter is calibrated at the factory with an extremely accurate and sensitive spectrophotometer as is the monitor. The built-in sensor can also be correlated by the user to an external measuring device for accuracy and consistency across multiple monitors.

The software included with the monitors has most of the advanced features a user is likely to want. But there's also the easy method for setting up calibration and soft proofing as demonstrated in this video. It shows how the automatic calibration sensor and software work.

Thanks for that. In the specs it just says "sensor", and I assumed it was a spectro. The only downside of using a colorimeter for this application that I can see is that you're stuck with one set of color matching functions.

Back in the 90's I used Barco monitors. I think the same thing was true for them.

I have the CG319X. My only problem with the software is that the updates come thick and fast. I can't figure out what's so complicated about the app that it needs to be updated so often.

In such applications colorimeters often work better than common (X-Rite) spectros as colorimeters have less shadow noise. At some point Mr. Rodney and I did independent tests, and that was our conclusion.

Haven't heard anything from Andrew recently...

BTW, Barco is still in business, but they seem to have left the photo editing market.

www.barco.com/us-en

"All good.

Andrew"

Worked for Barco, with Barco, in Barco (CZ+Belgium). Weird bunch! 🤭