Topic: monitors (Read 3367 times)

kudesh · « **on:** January 28, 2007, 09:32:42 pm »

I need a monitor yesterdaY. i'M LOOKING AT THE 20" CINEMA DISPLAY, SYNCMASTER 214 21",414 23"
I WOULD LOVE THE EIZO CE210W for 1200.00, but I am not sure i need all of that. Pricey! I do not do color separation etc. But touch ups are CRITICAL!
I do publicity, portraits, headshots, theatre for work and i send the printing out.
I print my own personal work ie: flora etc. and never print over 16X20
I have always used a CRT. When my monitor crashed i borrowed a dell Led and it was horrible for photoshop touch-ups.
Suggestions please
thanks

Jonathan Wienke · « **Reply #1 on:** January 29, 2007, 02:31:03 pm »

If accurate color is critical, get the Eizo, and a spectrophotometer like the Gretag-Macbeth Eye-One Pro to calibrate it as accurately as possible. The other monitors will calibrate well (I have the Samsung 213T) but they can exhibit slight banding in some smooth color gradients due to their 8-bit DACs. But whatever monitor you get, make sure you get good calibration hardware or you're wasting your time.

kudesh · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2007, 06:20:23 pm »

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If accurate color is critical, get the Eizo, and a spectrophotometer like the Gretag-Macbeth Eye-One Pro to calibrate it as accurately as possible. The other monitors will calibrate well (I have the Samsung 213T) but they can exhibit slight banding in some smooth color gradients due to their 8-bit DACs. But whatever monitor you get, make sure you get good calibration hardware or you're wasting your time.
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thank-you! I bought a samsung 22" 225BW today. I will check it out to see if it suits my needs. If not I will go higher end.
I wonder how many bits this one has, i will look

gorosh · « **Reply #3 on:** January 29, 2007, 07:13:05 pm »

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thank-you! I bought a samsung 22" 225BW today. I will check it out to see if it suits my needs. If not I will go higher end.
I wonder how many bits this one has, i will look
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I really doubt it will suit your needs, if superior color is of essence to you. It uses TN panel (all 22" displays do, except for the Eizo model) and has 6-bit color (it uses dithering to display 16.2M of colors).

I would recommend one of the NEC xx90UXi displays (for example NEC 2090UXi).

kaelaria · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2007, 01:00:26 pm »

Wow an LED monitor must be really bright! LOL j/k

Wbuik · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2007, 01:05:21 pm »

Do you know of any widescreen monitors which have true 8 bit color?

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