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Old November 8th 05, 04:46 AM
Barry Haley
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My wife is the photographer and I buying her a new monitor. Any
recommendations regarding LCD vs CRT for viewing and editing images?
Any recommendations on brands would also be appreciated.


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Old November 8th 05, 06:09 AM
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My recommendation is to go with a LCD. You're probably going to keep
the monitor for a few years, and she'll be spending a lot of time in
front of it - and LCDs are much easier on the eyes than CRTs. I've had
a ViewSonic 18 inch for 2 years now and would suggest you go with as
big as you can afford. When doing digital imaging, she'll want as much
screen real estate as possible, and that's another advantage of LCD
over CRT. Today's price is about half of what I paid for it, but if you
continue to wait for the price to go down, you'll end up waiting
forever. Take the plunge, and go for it. Good luck.

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Old November 8th 05, 12:36 PM
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"Barry Haley" wrote...
My wife is the photographer and I buying her a new monitor.
Any recommendations regarding LCD vs CRT for viewing
and editing images? Any recommendations on brands would
also be appreciated.


When I upgraded to a 23" HP2335 LCD monitor, I decided to keep my Philips
Brilliance 202P4 21" CRT and connected both of them in a dual monitor
arrangement to my nVidia Quadro FX440 graphics card. It's great. I'd hate
to go back to a single monitor. BTW, I calibrate both monitors with a
Spyder2Pro colorimeter so the colours match remarkably well. If I was
forced to pick only one monitor, I'd give viewable screen size, resolution
(the higher the better) and colour rendition more importance than the CRT
versus LCD issue. I like my LCD better than my CRT but that's mostly
because it has a larger screen and runs at a higher resolution. If limited
desk space is an issue, then the LCD wins hands down because of its smaller
footprint.


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Old November 8th 05, 11:02 PM
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Barry Haley wrote:
My wife is the photographer and I buying her a new monitor. Any
recommendations regarding LCD vs CRT for viewing and editing images?
Any recommendations on brands would also be appreciated.




I have a Viewsonic P95f+ 18 inch CRT monitor running at 1600x1200 and
love it. It cost $250 plus shipping and IMO I'd have to spend several
times that to get the same quality in an LCD.

It's got a front panel button that switches between "normal", "bright"
and "real bright". "bright" is for photoimage work. "real bright" is
for watching DVD movies (the pixels are a little blurred) and normal
is the default and it's fine for everything else and it saves the
monitor lifetime.

When the monitor goes to sleep it always wakes up in "normal mode.

The size is just right when a 19 inch CRT is too too big.



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Old November 9th 05, 02:13 AM
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Thanks all, this was helpful!


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Any recommendations on brands would also be appreciated.




 




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