Any monitor tips??

Started Jul 31, 2006 | Discussions
Scott Christensen Photography Regular Member • Posts: 144
Any monitor tips??

I am in need of a new monitor.....19" or bigger....
any suggestions...

Foxie Contributing Member • Posts: 935
Look here....

....currently it has been at my desk for 100 days and I'm still very very happy with it; couldn't think of a better choise:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1004&message=18068176
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Ryder Senior Member • Posts: 1,195
Re: Look here....

Yes if you want to spend that $$ on a monitor that is surely the way to go.

I wound up with a 20.5" Dell for a third of the price, calibrated and profiled it with Gretag Display 2, and get accurate colors too. Gets the job done quite nicely.
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Grzzl Senior Member • Posts: 2,968
Re: Any monitor tips??

If you are going "flat" look for a monitor with a PVA or MVA panel.

A nice one is the Acer AL2423W widescreen. Very high image quality (however not so suted for games) Cheap stand and settings. I have one and it is one of the best i have seen (and i see a lot)

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Foxie Contributing Member • Posts: 935
Believe me, an EIZO screen is not comparable with a DELL (nt)
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John M. Polston Senior Member • Posts: 2,638
Samsung 244T
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sting Veteran Member • Posts: 4,970
Look for IPS panels

Grzzl wrote:

If you are going "flat" look for a monitor with a PVA or MVA panel.

A nice one is the Acer AL2423W widescreen. Very high image quality
(however not so suted for games) Cheap stand and settings. I have

The better monitors recommended for photographic work have IPS panels.

Alfred Senior Member • Posts: 1,029
Re: Believe me, an EIZO screen is not comparable with a DELL (nt)

Foxie wrote:

bear in mind, a whole lot of (high end) Dell screens are Sonys

Particularly my Dell P1190 Trinitron (21") is a Sony D520 flatscreen Trinitron - and its sharp as heck run at 2048 x 1536 ...

the real beauty of those huge 21-24" CRT monsters is - they can be had for NO money today - and you need to spend up to 1k$ to get similar performance on an LCD.

sjprintz Regular Member • Posts: 412
Re: Samsung 204T

Has a PVA screen. It looks great and is very accurate.

SJP

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Peter_Schulz Regular Member • Posts: 258
I want bigger pictures not smaller ones

I currently have a 19" Dell monitor. I'd like a larger screen. But what I find is that as the LCD screen sizes go up, the number of pixels goes up faster with the net effect being that the images are smaller on the larger LCDs.

Example: My 19 inch 1280x1024 pixel Dell LCD screen shows the image on this post as 5.8 inches wide.

Question: Does anyone have an LCD monitor that is larger than 19" that shows this image on the screen as larger than 5.8 inches wide?
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Andrew Veteran Member • Posts: 4,486
Re: Any monitor tips??

eizo 19' is probably the best without going silly

one of the samsungs is pretty good, my viewsonic vp930 is adequate more or less depending on how fussy you are. One or two of the sonys are ok too, but from what I have seen I dont think most of them are any better than the better dell ones (not like the crt days when sony was about it).

If you dont have two monitors, get a second one, a cheap 17 or 19" is great for your tools and palettes and gives you the whole maximised area on your good one for photo. I seriously dont see how anyone can work photoshop on one monitor no matter how big without going nuts. IMO two 17's beats one 40" widescreen as far as working comfort goes.

John M. Polston Senior Member • Posts: 2,638
My Samsung 24" 244T shows it about 5.6 to 5.7 inches wide

But I have a ton more screen realestate than you at 1920x1200

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alabaster Senior Member • Posts: 1,583
See AnandTech - LCD buyers guide

See this thorough discussion at AnandTech forums.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1745344&enterthread=y
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d70_europe Senior Member • Posts: 1,208
how about this dual screen solution?

Sorry for the bad picture - it's from my yesterday's fast trial and I was in a hurry because I feared the quick trial construction might colapse.

The smaller 15 inch monitor at the right should be rotated just in the opposite direction, so the buttons and LEDs are facing to the outward side at the final setup.

Furthermore the smaller monitor ought to be the newer and better Samsung 152N (some ebey sellers can't be trusted...). The 19 inch Samsung SyncMaster 193T and the 151N/152N fit perfectly together I think. You get a total of 2048x1024 pixels. However both monitors are at least 3 years on the market - but I can't remember current TFT monitors fitting so well side by side.
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Peter_Schulz Regular Member • Posts: 258
Re:Thanks John

I'll check it out as more pixels is what I want.
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Peter_Schulz Regular Member • Posts: 258
Any one have the Dell 24" Wide View?

And if yes, how wide is this picture on your screen? Thanks.

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Dirk Vermeirre Forum Pro • Posts: 10,232
Eizo or LaCie 321

Scott Christensen Photography wrote:

I am in need of a new monitor.....19" or bigger....
any suggestions...

Hi Scott,

LaCie 321, the one I'm using to replace my defect 21" Apple Color sync is fantastic, very accurate color, razorsharp and shows tints of 5% or lower from a color, it's also excellent for prepress. The Eizo's are even a little tad better then the LaCie.

With very kind regards,

Dirk

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Trav Bomb Regular Member • Posts: 345
Re: Eizo or LaCie 321

If you are looking at Lacie take a look at NEC also since they make the Lacie monitors.

The Lacie 321 is currently dated compared to NEC.

The NEC2190UXi is the new version which Lacie will be OEMing once they sell stock out on the 321.

e268 Senior Member • Posts: 1,727
Dell 2407

The Dell 2407 can be had for a pretty good price. At 24" is a lot of real estate. You can do side by side comparisons. Google for review, and is not purfect, but very good for the money , but you have to carefully calibrate it. I have the Dell 2405 for 2 yrs now, and use it for games, movies, and photo editing.

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Foxie Contributing Member • Posts: 935
I just *came* from a DELL CRT...

...and it was one of the worst CRT's I've used (formerly used IIyama's) and it's utterly totally un-comparable with an EIZO TFT.

Everybody's free to choose an inexpensive DELL and think they have an EIZO (be it CG or not) equivalent. I thought so myself until I really saw the difference. It's not pixel-peeping; the difference is in-your-face loud!
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