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Post by byuphoto on Jun 7, 2007 12:31:38 GMT -5
I just got a new SamSung 22" wide monitor and I have to say I never wanted to use an LCD but my last CRT bit the dust. So I got this one and used my SpyderII pro on it and the wide sceen aspect is amazing. I think I will get another monmitor and a new graphics card to run dual monitors
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Post by Peter S. on Jun 7, 2007 14:41:16 GMT -5
Hmm, LCDs are pretty good these days. I got (only) a 21" Eizo S2100 a few month back. It is a hell of a monitor.
The progress in the last few years had been tremendous. E.g. w.r.t. the uniformity of the background lighting. And also concerning the dependance of the viewing angle.
My four years old 18" Samsung monitor is _a_lot_ inferior to the new Eizo one. The issue of which gamma to chose is unfortunately not addressed by that progress. We (amateur) pg's are an overseen minority...
Best regards Peter
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 7, 2007 15:33:02 GMT -5
They say for doing serious graphics on an LCD you want one with 1000:1 contrast ratio.
My 19-inch Samsung at work and my 19-inch Acer at home are both in the 800:1 range and I have both of them pretty well dialed in. But the ones with the higher contrast ration are supposedly better. I don't have and calibration equipment --I just eyeballed it and the output from my color printer indicates I'm on the money.
I have a dual output graphics card at home and I tried hooking of the Acer and my NEC Multisync CRT together but decided it was more hassle than it was worth. Besides, the 17-inch NEC seems to take a HUGE amount of room now.
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Post by doubs43 on Jun 7, 2007 15:55:14 GMT -5
I bought a Westinghouse 20.1" monitor last year and it's taken some getting used to. I'm not at all pleased with the lack of fine controls for brightness, contrast etc. but when I've worked on an image to post here I generally get positive comments about tonality and such so I suppose the monitor's OK.
Still, I'd like a better monitor and when I can afford one, I'll get it but that's likely to be a while.
Walker
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Post by byuphoto on Jun 7, 2007 16:32:40 GMT -5
Well the samsung syncmaster is well praised by reviewers and consumers alike. Contrast ratio is 1000:1 I wanted the 24" but just could not afford it. I am thinking of getting a 15" and running them together
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Post by doubs43 on Jun 7, 2007 16:52:19 GMT -5
Well the samsung syncmaster is well praised by reviewers and consumers alike. Contrast ratio is 1000:1 I wanted the 24" but just could not afford it. I am thinking of getting a 15" and running them together Samsung makes some first class equipment and I wouldn't hesitate to buy one of their monitors. My DLP TV is a Samsung and I'm very pleased with it. They've come a long, long way since I was in Korea some 33 years ago and Samsung was marketing radios with AM/FM scales and selector knobs but had only the guts for AM. Thinking about that still brings a smile. Walker
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 7, 2007 17:36:30 GMT -5
I've got the Samsung Syncmaster at work but I think I actually like the Acer I have at home better. It was much easier to tune.
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Post by byuphoto on Jun 7, 2007 17:52:54 GMT -5
How do you tune yours, wayne
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Post by casualcollector on Jun 7, 2007 19:17:25 GMT -5
I have an Acer AL1714 that is about 18 months old now. Happy with the images it displays but disappointed that it began exhibiting some "burn in" or ghosting at about 11 months. I had thought this was only a problem with well used CRT monitors. Very interested in a Samsung monitor with my next computer.
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 7, 2007 21:41:22 GMT -5
The Acer monitor has an auto config button that gets it pretty close. Then I go into my NVIDIA graphics card config program and fine tune by eyeball, then save the profile. The Samsung at work has a program called Magic Tune that walks you through calibrating but you have to be careful because when you are trying to set screen colors to match the program, if you move your head even a few inches--to a slightly different angle, the shading shifts.
My final test is usually to print something with my Canon printer and see if it matches the screen and post something on forums. If the other posters' photos look right and mine look right, I figure I must be close.
Not a good enough way if you are preparing color for a six-color Heidelberg press. When I'm doing that at work I the colors approximately where then should be then composing pulls up the file on a press-calibrated monitor and fine tunes it. I'm usually close but normally they have to increase the saturation a little.
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Post by SidW on Jun 9, 2007 17:40:25 GMT -5
I use the Adobe Gamma setter, and, like Wayne, check that printed images look the same as they did on screen.
The real difficulty I've had is that new monitors have always been brighter than the previous, so that images processed at different times on different monitors appear brighter or darker as the case may be.
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Post by PeterW on Jun 13, 2007 17:21:20 GMT -5
I'm still struggling along with my ancient 19 inch Sony Trinitron CRT. Better not let the Joneses hear about it! . PeterW
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 13, 2007 17:50:02 GMT -5
Funny. My Canon printer leans toward magenta, too.
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Post by doubs43 on Jun 13, 2007 21:17:13 GMT -5
I use the Adobe Gamma setter, and, like Wayne, check that printed images look the same as they did on screen. The real difficulty I've had is that new monitors have always been brighter than the previous, so that images processed at different times on different monitors appear brighter or darker as the case may be. Different monitors are definitely a problem. I took a digital picture today to illustrate a point and the only change I made was to reduce the size to 800 pixels. No other alterations of any kind. When I posted it to a discussion group, the comment was made that it seemed to be 1/2 stop underexposed! It didn't look underexposed on my monitor. Walker
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