Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: Rusty on September 13, 2011, 09:18:19 pm
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This monitor seems reasonably well spec'd for the price as compared to the NEC 2490WUXi2. I have eye-1 to profile it.
Any experience, good bad or indifferent?
thanks in advance
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[crickets]
Sorry, no knowledge of this monitor, mate, but just noticed this (http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/09/14/hp.shows.off.four.new.zr2x40.ips.monitors.more/); pricing looks competitive.
HTH
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A bit late to the party, but. I just received this monitor and after calibration (Color Munki Display using dispcalGUI/Argyll) I am very pleased with its performance. :)
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Sorry - jut spotted this thread.
I've had one for several years; which may explain why you got a bargain.
Did you find this review (http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/hp_lp2475w.htm)? It pretty much confirms your findings; after calibration the tones and colours are excellent.
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I am also late to the party. Have had a refurb HP2475w for about 6 months now. No issues. Using a xrite Colormunki to calibrate; works well.
Greg
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Didn't want to spout off unnecessarily
I have owned 2 HP LP2475's- I am satisfied with the colors and gradations.
My #1 monitor developed screen anomalies over time, and was warrantied with its replacement less than a year later.
The color shifts in the gray fields working in photoshop would get to looking like a fine mist, I imagined it was two candy bars fighting over a map, one greenish, one pinkish,
anyway the warranty covered its replacement and the new screen couldn't be made to look like the old so I am satisfied.
All of a sudden a month or so ago,
after almost two years trouble free service, the #2 monitor gets a funny line,
some interesting mist, and maybe even brightening over the course of a day. It would start out dark but by the end the day be noticeably lighter.
Hmm says I,
call Hp,
hmm says they,
a monitor is being shipped,
send us the old one.
just like that
So even if the new monitor is only good until august,
I made out.
plain and simple,
Hp stands behind their monitor warranty, if you know what to look for you can weed out the poor performers, send them back, and with luck have a good experience like I have.
If you don't mind a minor amount of infidelity this monitor is great.
Calibrating it is an entirely different story.
The i1display2 doesn't work with it.
I'd imagine there is some calibrating tool that does,
but good luck,
you're gonna need it.
If you have a good card you can do some minor calibration,
a wide gamut monitor has solutions which seem limited.
So there is a thread in the color management forum describing some tests and so on,
there is a lot of info on the net,
my best solution is a print in my light box compared side by side with my monitor output.
Sounds hick I know,
but tell me a better solution that costs less?
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The HP LP2475W seems reasonably well spec'd for the price as compared to the NEC 2490WUXi2. I have eye-1 to profile it. Any experience, good bad or indifferent? Thanks in advance ...
When I was looking for a 24" sRGB IPS display, these where the two obvious choices. I think that out of the box they will both be fine. But overtime, the price conscious HP display surely will develop shortcomings ... and thus for me, I went with the NEC because of the perception I have of NEC having better build quality, better driving electronics, and longer lasting backlight system.
The NEC 2490WUXi2 is a very impressive looking, well made monitor ... it came expertly packaged as well.