Loving the NEC 3090 driven with SpectraView II software. [a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=212776\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Andrew,
I am reading your book and highly respect your opionion. I am somewhat confused about the pros/cons of getting a wide gamut display given current 8 bit technology in graphics card and LCD output.
I have seen your balloon analogy (a fixed number of color points will be further apart on a bigger balloon), Karl Langs statements about 0.8dE becomming 2dE when moving from an sRGB monitor to an AdobeRGB capable monitor, and others' statements about sRGB having ~30% less volume than AdobeRGB. While I understand volume comparisons in physical space, I am just not quite sure how to understand volume comparisons in color space.
I have not been able to see a wide gamut display side by side with a sRGB display (say NEC 3090 next to a NEC2490), and don't know what the difference will be in practice.
Will a properly calibrated (with Spectraview and an i1 Display2) nec 3090 make it difficult to edit, say, portraits, because there is just too big a distnace between adjacent RGB values on a wide gamut display? My wife does wedding photography, so that is important to her, while for my photography, the wider gamut is very attractive. For B/W work, what would the effect of the wide gamut be, in parctice?
Further, is a device like the i1 display2 even able to measure properly the whole gamut of a wide gamut display (I know that NEC provided a special wide gamut puck for the NEC 21 inch LCD backlit display. Further, according to Reid reviews, Karl Lang mentioned that calibrating/profiling the NEC2690 was problematic, something that was not a problem with the NEC 2490 narrower gamut model). What has your experience been calibrating/profiling these monitors? And what is your take on Karls statements regarding the the advantage of sRGB gamut monitors for most jobs?
Yours and others' opinions and experience would be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Tore
PS: I understand that as long as graphics cards and LCDs put out 8 bit per channel, one should ideally have both an sRGB monitor for editing photos that stay within that space and an adobeRGB capable monitor for editing those photos that span a wider space. I am considering the NEC 2490/2690/3090, which I understand are excellent monitors with quite different gamuts. However, space constraints, fincancial constraints etc mean I can only get one monitor.