22" Screens

Thinking of getting two 22" LCD screens to run Adobe Lightroom and CS5 on, one screen on each using smart objects.

Any recommendations was looking at the Iiyama 22" screens as get a great review and not bad value £120+

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Chris Middleton & Vanessa Le Luan
http://www.focal-photography.com

focalphotography said:

Thinking of getting two 22" LCD screens to run Adobe Lightroom and CS5 on, one screen on each using smart objects.

Any recommendations was looking at the Iiyama 22" screens as get a great review and not bad value £120+

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If it's the monitor I think you're looking at, it's a good gaming monitor but you can do better for an image editing monitor.

The Iiyama is likely a 6bit + FRC TN tft panel monitor with a standard sRGB gamut and will look something like this:

TN tft panel
(per TFT Central BenQ XL2410T review http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews.htm )
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/images/benq_xl2410t/viewing_angles.jpg

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What you should get is a monitor with an IPS tft panel something like this:

IPS tft panel
(per TFT Central NEC EA232w review http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews.htm )
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/images/nec_ea232wmi/viewing_angles.jpg

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Lightroom uses a very wide gamut ProPhotoRGB color space to edit in. You may want to consider a wide gamut (sRGB + AdobeRGB) monitor if you shoot a lot of sunsets, vibrant flowers, etc., especially if you do your own printing on a high end wide gamut multi-ink printer.

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Check out the reviews here:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/

and...

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/reviews.php

and if you don't mind paying to read German langiage reviews (English are posted several weeks later), this site has the most detailed reviews of them all:

http://www.prad.de/en/monitore/reviews.html

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Since it seems you're looking for a good value, check out the NEC P221W, it's a 22inch PVA panel with all the features of NEC's professional line at a good price. It's also wide gamut. Because it's a PVA panel, you will get very good contrast and black levels, but some gamma shift at off viewing angles.

Thanks for your information, I've looked up a size and looking for 24" screens now and the new IIYAMA ProLite X2472HD-B1 seems to fit the bill for my budget.

Bad for gaming but good for photo editing.

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Chris Middleton & Vanessa Le Luan
http://www.focal-photography.com

focalphotography said:

Thanks for your information, I've looked up a size and looking for 24" screens now and the new IIYAMA ProLite X2472HD-B1 seems to fit the bill for my budget.

Bad for gaming but good for photo editing.

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You should also check out the Eizo EV2333W. Prad rated it a "Very Good". Being in Europe, you should be able to get access to it. It is a 23" and 1920x1080 like the X2462HD.

http://www.prad.de/en/monitore/review/2009/review-eizo-ev2333wh-bk.html

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&id=1271060370

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