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LCD Monitor - photo editing?
I am considering moving to a 19" LCD monitor, and comparative magazine
reviews gave the Editors pick as the Sony HS95P, saying excellent photo display, contrast etc. However Googling brought up one buyer who said he could not edit images on it. Why his difficulties were was not said. Does anyone know about editing on LCD monitors, and have you had any trouble? Thanks, Don |
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reviews gave the Editors pick as the Sony HS95P, saying excellent photo
display, contrast etc. However Googling brought up one buyer who said he could not edit images on it. Why his difficulties were was not said. Does anyone know about editing on LCD monitors, and have you had any trouble? One of the problems I had with early LCD's was the fact that the image isn't illuminated equally. IOW, if you move your head up the top of the image seems darker than the bottom, and vice versa. With any CRT this problem simply doesn't exist. While LCD's are much better today, I still wouldn't want to pay the amount required to get one on which professional photo editing would be possible. For much less you can get a very high end CRT. I've been working on 19inch for 6 years. I'd like to move up to 25 or more. You might find 19 too small pretty quickly. -- Mark Photos, Ideas & Opinions http://www.marklauter.com |
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DonB wrote:
Does anyone know about editing on LCD monitors, and have you had any trouble? To use an LCD, you need a *really good* one. One test -- look at the screen while moving your head around so that you see it from different angles. Many LCDs will change in brightness and/or color depending on what angle you look at them from. If you can go almost out to 90 degrees both vertically and horizontally without any change, that's a good sign. If it appears darker or the colors change as the angle increases, pass. -- Jeremy | |
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Although they are improving it is more difficult to judge subtle color and
contrast gradations on an LCD than on a CRT. However CRTs in general are over-rated in their real world ability to display the range from black to white they are supposed to. Niether of these factors may make a difference to the way you work if you do not make subtle adjustments of this sort in Photoshop. An LCD can be calibrated and as such be used in a reasonably reliable way for basic monitor color matching/color management. I |
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bmoag wrote:
However CRTs in general are over-rated in their real world ability to display the range from black to white they are supposed to. Sir! Your vile heresies against the One True Religion of the Flickering Tube have been noted by the devout. The CRT Central Committee of Worship will be drawing up another Fatwa shortly, and you can expect your name to figure prominently on it. |
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At my office had a good CRT, it died, the IT dept replaced it with a
rotten CRT, really had editing problems on that one. It has been replaced with an HP 1940 LCD. I'm happy, editing is a dream with this monitor. Two years ago I was in another office doing some for hire work, they had what they called a state of the art editing system, couldn't stand the Viewsonic LCD, get in close and it was all pixels, very disorienting, the black was awful too. At home I use a 19" Lacie Electron Blue CRT and a Gateway with a Sony Trinatron tube. Tom |
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