I'd be interested in your impressions regarding your new Eizo monitor and the ColorNavigator software whenever you have the inclination and the time to share your thoughts.
I’m not the original poster but I did just hook up my new CS2740 to my new Mac Studio…
Prior to this I had been using a 2017 27” iMac 5k that had a very tired 11 year old NEC PA271W as a second display. I replaced the PA271W in anticipation of my coming Mac Studio, which of course needed it’s own monitor. As you know the iMac retina screen is really very nice, can be calibrated close enough but cannot be controlled as precisely as the NEC, Eizo, etc… I had briefly considered a Mac Studio display, but decided to try an Eizo for the first time. Always could make it my second monitor and still get a Mac Studio display if I had regrets. Well, I didn’t.
This non-professional’s opinion is that the CS 2740 looked at least as good as the iMac retina screen, and I would say better. I had it connected as a second monitor to my iMac for about 6 weeks, so extensive side by side comparison. Where the Eizo clearly eclipsed the iMac screen was in the ability to calibrate screen precisely and maintain various presets depending on task. And that has carried over onto the Mac Studio. I like this Eizo so much, I plan on adding a second Eizo.
I have to admit that I probably did not need the 4k capability. I have read (read: looked on the internet
) that a 5k monitor, running at 5 k, is not really the best way to evaluate an image, that a lower resolution (i.e 2560x1440-WQHD) is probably the highest you wish to use for destination print.
I was a little confused at first, and maybe even still a little bit, that when “native resolution” is selected in the Mac OS preference panel display it “chooses” the equivalent of a 1920x1080 display. I can “scale” it to higher resolution which results in menu bar and palettes shrinking to very tiny. Sweet spot seems to be “scaled” to 2560x1440. Makes me think I should have just considered a monitor with that resolution, ie. the upcoming CG 2700S. Maybe that will become new second monitor?