Best monitor for photo processing?
Review here: link
Price is very reasonable for such a high performance screen, Here's a good price from ebuyer link
It's the screen I'd go for if I didn't already have it's 20.1" 4x3 version, which is superb.
I'm not sure if it's the case with the LP2475, but the LP2065 which I have was available with both a S-IPS and a slightly inferior S-PVA screen. I'm not sure if this is a trick that HP do a lot but it's worth 'doing your homework' on. You will only get a blank look in PC World if you ask for one type over the other
I am in serious need of a new monitor to replace my existing display set-up. I'm looking for a 24" or 26" TFT with reliable colour reproduction.
hello,
i run windows, but i use a laptop with photoshop, and use a second larger monitor to dispay my pictures on, using the laptop screen for all the photoshop menu/tool boxes.
maybe you could do something similair with linux, and utilise both monitors.
many thanks
roger.
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Terry
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The Dell 2408FWP has the same panel as the more expensive Samsung 24" high end monitor, but has a better back light and costs less.
Got it BNIB for £190 too.
Dan
Wide viewing angles are not really important as you sit in front of the thing.
Oh yes, based on personal experience it is important. It's amazing how quickly the image changes when you move away from the straight-on position on low-grade monitors.
Laptop screens are the worst. Just try to change the angle back and forth a few degrees and notice the difference.
Terry
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Wide viewing angles are not really important as you sit in front of the thing.
Oh yes, based on personal experience it is important. It's amazing how quickly the image changes when you move away from the straight-on position on low-grade monitors.
Laptop screens are the worst. Just try to change the angle back and forth a few degrees and notice the difference.
Absolutely agree, I borrowed a cheap 19" TFT screen to tide me over, and the colours varied from top to bottom, because of the different angles I was looking at it at, if you see what I mean. Horrible thing it was.
Dan
for monitor calibration on a Linux distro, there's this..
http://www.pcbypaul.com/software/monica.html
looks pretty similar to Wysiwig, so should be easy enough to use.
HTH
Cheers
Liam
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Have to say, the iMac 24" LCD monitor is pretty darned good.
I honestly do not know how they compare to expensive monitors. But compared to my previous LCD screens, the color is bright, and pretty darned accurate to what I see on paper.
To be honest, the LCD from my old Windows machine looks a lot more accurate as well now that it is connect to the iMac.
Although the colorimiter does show the iMac screen as having a significantly larger gamut than the others. (Dell Ultra Sharp and LG brand LCD screens).
Just gotta say the Mac monitors are a lot easier on the eyes for text and the photo processing just looks better than I would have expected.
I wonder if one would do as well connected to a Windows machine...
Terry
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I refuse to believe that a monitor looks any different when connected to a Mac instead of a PC.
well if you have your monitor profiled on a MAC and you use it un-profiled on a PC then you will certainly see a difference.
On the MAC you will probably get a factory profile for the monitor you use.
If I connect my monitor to my laptop it looks very different indeed and my PC and laptop are both Windows XP Pro machines. The difference is that on my PC I use a Eye1 to profile it.
As to get back to the issue on what display to buy. I would allways opt for a S-IPS panel over a TN panel every day. A *LOT* of TN panels out there use dithering to get to true colour so it is a hit&miss affair.
IPS panels offer much better colour accuracy allthough they use more power and get a lot warmer.
I have a NEC Multisync 20WGX2 Pro and that screen get's quite warm.
I have allso noticed another thing with this screen and that is that when profiling it is best to leave the screen in "native" mode so you use the native whitepoint. I tried the monitor with manual settings of R, G and B but it seems to be drifting around then. In native mode the screen is much more consistent over time.
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I refuse to believe that a monitor looks any different when connected to a Mac instead of a PC.
Well, all I can guess at is that although Windows "can" handle profiling of two monitors, with the right added driver/control panel (must search for, and add manually from Microsoft website), it just simply cannot handle the job adequately nor consistently.
I suppose on a single monitor PC, it is possible that the same monitor would not show any significant difference. But if you use two monitors, color consistency might be a consideration worth noting.
Regardless, the eye One calibration/profiling shows the Mac display to have a larger gamut and more linear color representation than my other LCD monitors... which is what I was trying to get across. Sorry for pulling things off track.
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My budget is around £600.
One important consideration is that I use Linux so any calibration needs to be independent of Mac or Windows software.
Can anyone recommend anything?
Cheers.
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