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I think this is definitely worth a follow up.
I didn't buy a colour calibrator in the end and I've used software ones before. But a chance conversation at work with our photographic department and I was "leant" one to "try." It was an old Pantone/Colorvision PhotoCAL (it's a Spyder) and luckily enough works on Vista (but not the 64bit XP Pro on my works desktop). Very easy to use.
The end result is a properly calibrated monitor that is much darker than before. I can now see why my photos got comments about being dark!! I'll have a play with Lightroom tonight and post a before and after shot to show what difference it made.
TBH I was quite surpised how much it changed the output. I had my monitor calibrated using software, but it made a huge difference. It wasn't all perfect as it initially made my laptop extremely blue, but a recalibration seems to have sorted that out - although my small laptop gives quite a different brightness/contrast depending on what angle you view the screen at.
Rob
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