Re: Monitor advice

[Jayne Whitelock <jayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having just learnt from experience, I'd recommend you only buy a monitor that can be callibrated. I use mine for video not stills, but still need to get accurate colour reproduction. I recently bought a lovely Samsung but couldn't change the gamma settings (they were just setting 1,2 or 3) . Without knowing what these represented it was a impossible to know what your starting point was. Samsung said they'd speak to their techie people but never came back to us. Had the same problem with a new Iiayma model, the difference being they did tell us what each setting represented and we were able to callibrate with a spyder. My Iiyama is a Prolite E2209HDS, and seems to be behaving well so far. Cost about £150 I think and was the next best choice to the NEC or eizo which were a bit more expensive - I think I spoke to these people http://www.nativedigital.co.uk/shop/. If you want advice about calibrating in general, take a look at my partner's advice here http://www.photographycourses.biz/printer_calibration_photography_tips.html

Good Luck,

Jayne

On 6 April 2010 13:14, Kieran Simkin <kieran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

People did indeed used to be snobby about using flatscreens for photos, and with good reason, old flat screens used to struggle to reproduce the contrast range of a CRT. That has now changed and flatscreens are the way to go.
Contrast ratio is important, although "Dynamic contrast" makes it difficult to compare like-for-like these days, the only real way to tell is to look at the screen itself.

LG seem to be the leaders in flatscreen production at the moment, and my 2 year old LG Flatron L1760TR looks beautiful and gives great colour reproduction, so I'd highly recommend whatever the latest model in that range is. I wouldn't personally recommend buying an Apple screen just because you don't really get any advantage over another manufacturer's panel (Apple don't manufacture the actual panel themselves), but you still pay the Apple premium, so you're effectively paying for the Apple logo.

On 06/04/2010 11:43, jonathan turner wrote:

My old CRT lacie monitor has packed up...so I'm thinking of buying a flat screen monitor.

Has anyone got any advice about this? At one point people were a bit snobbish about flat screens for editing photographs...colour/contrast accuracy etc...

I haven't got loads of cash for it but equally don't want to buy any old rubbish. What do I need to be aware of? Are things like 'contrast ratio' important?

Any suggestions welcome.

Jonathan.
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