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I'm getting into some photo and video editing and before I went too far I wanted to make sure I got my monitor color set accurately enough that I'm not causing more harm than good when working with ...

So I bought my friend's old Flatron monitor. It's an LG 795FT Plus. He described this monitor as the second coming, but dear Lord I <I>cannot</I> for the life of me get a decent image out of it.

It's 2024. Do we still need to obsessively calibrate our monitors, or are we pretty much always in the right ballpark nowadays? Granted, monitor calibration devices were a must-have back in the days ...