What Type Of Monitor Is Best For Viewing Pics?

I few days ago I posted to a computer newsgroup to ask expert advice
on computer monitors. I was told CRTs are the best way to go if I'm
retouching photographs. I don't really retouch them. I don't have
Photoshop but I do use Microsoft Picture Manager for slight exposure
adjustments or to just crop.
Since most of us view pics on our computer screen, what type of
monitor would you suggest? I was leaning towards LCDs.
Thank you all very much.
Helen

On Oct 27, 1:07 pm, wrote:
I few days ago I posted to a computer newsgroup to ask expert advice
on computer monitors. I was told CRTs are the best way to go if I'm
retouching photographs. I don't really retouch them. I don't have
Photoshop but I do use Microsoft Picture Manager for slight exposure
adjustments or to just crop.
Since most of us view pics on our computer screen, what type of
monitor would you suggest? I was leaning towards LCDs.
Thank you all very much.
Helen

I've been very happy with both Viewsonic and Acer. Make sure your
video card supports the native resolution of the LCD monitor and view
things at that resolution.

Jim

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I few days ago I posted to a computer newsgroup to ask expert advice
on computer monitors. I was told CRTs are the best way to go if I'm
retouching photographs. I don't really retouch them. I don't have
Photoshop but I do use Microsoft Picture Manager for slight exposure
adjustments or to just crop.
Since most of us view pics on our computer screen, what type of
monitor would you suggest? I was leaning towards LCDs.
Thank you all very much.
Helen

If you want reproducible, accurate colors/tonality for PRINTS a
calibrated CRT is your best bet. For web postings I suppose an LCD will
do.

HFL

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Harry Lockwood wrote:


If you want reproducible, accurate colors/tonality for PRINTS a
calibrated CRT is your best bet. For web postings I suppose an LCD will
do.

Couple of honest questions:

I presume when we talk of calibrated monitors we are not talking your
average, buy from a computer store, but top brand, top model monitors -
something decent, we are talking monitors that cost more than the average
pc and monitor combined? Therefore need to be careful that we don't mean
we are comparing LCD with cheap CRT.

Just at one reasonably large supplier here, they no longer stock CRT.

I've got a Ilyama Vison Master Pro CRT here, a good few years old an also a
less than one year old Viewsonic LCD both good spec monitors but I noted
when looking at the Viewsonic that if you look for calibrated monitors you
quickly get into the £800 - £1000 league - all CRT now.

Perhaps my Ilyama might be getting past its best, the LCD is much crisper,
much more contrast, but when viewing grey scales I can see all tones on
both monitors. Mind you, I've not got any more formal calibration routine
than that.

Pete


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JimKramer wrote:

I've been very happy with both Viewsonic and Acer. Make sure your
video card supports the native resolution of the LCD monitor and view
things at that resolution.

Get one with a DVI input and, if you computer does not have a DVI output a
graphics card with DVI output. The difference between DVI and VGA was
large on my Viewsonic. If your PC is old it is definitely still work
while.

Pete

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On Oct 27, 2:08 pm, Harry Lockwood wrote:
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wrote:
I few days ago I posted to a computer newsgroup to ask expert
advice on computer monitors. I was told CRTs are the best way to
go if I'm retouching photographs. I don't really retouch them. I
don't have Photoshop but I do use Microsoft Picture Manager for
slight exposure adjustments or to just crop.
Since most of us view pics on our computer screen, what type of
monitor would you suggest? I was leaning towards LCDs.
Thank you all very much.
Helen

If you want reproducible, accurate colors/tonality for PRINTS a
calibrated CRT is your best bet. For web postings I suppose an LCD
will do.

HFL

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5 years ago I would have agreed, but not any longer.
Jim



The "issue" with LCD monitors died in the digital revolution. Today's
LCD screens aqre true "DIGITAL" monitors and as such we have absolute
control over the pictures we see.

Even the cheapest of the cheap are better (once set up) than the most
expensive of CRT monitors... Of course setting one up is not so easy if
the person you buy it from has no clues either. You are quite likely to
get a load of stuff that will be excellent for the purpose and still end
up with sub-standard viewing.

Horses and water apply here.

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On Oct 27, 2:08 pm, Harry Lockwood wrote:
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wrote:
I few days ago I posted to a computer newsgroup to ask expert advice
on computer monitors. I was told CRTs are the best way to go if I'm
retouching photographs. I don't really retouch them. I don't have
Photoshop but I do use Microsoft Picture Manager for slight exposure
adjustments or to just crop.
Since most of us view pics on our computer screen, what type of
monitor would you suggest? I was leaning towards LCDs.
Thank you all very much.
Helen

If you want reproducible, accurate colors/tonality for PRINTS a
calibrated CRT is your best bet. For web postings I suppose an LCD will
do.

HFL

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Change hlockwood to hflockwood in email address

5 years ago I would have agreed, but not any longer.
Jim

Hi Helen,
I have had a Samsung 730BF (superceded) for 2 years and got good
performance as defined by seeing (amost) all the panels in the step
wedge displayed on several photo sites and getting accurate prints
when compared to the screen and my expectations.

When setting up the screen initially using the instructions I found I
had to wind down some of the controls considerably to get the
'correct' display.

I hope this helps

Allan

I few days ago I posted to a computer newsgroup to ask expert advice
on computer monitors. I was told CRTs are the best way to go if I'm
retouching photographs. I don't really retouch them. I don't have
Photoshop but I do use Microsoft Picture Manager for slight exposure
adjustments or to just crop.
Since most of us view pics on our computer screen, what type of
monitor would you suggest? I was leaning towards LCDs.
Thank you all very much.
Helen

On Oct 27, 1:07 pm, wrote:
I few days ago I posted to a computer newsgroup to ask expert advice
on computer monitors. I was told CRTs are the best way to go if I'm
retouching photographs. I don't really retouch them. I don't have
Photoshop but I do use Microsoft Picture Manager for slight exposure
adjustments or to just crop.
Since most of us view pics on our computer screen, what type of
monitor would you suggest? I was leaning towards LCDs.
Thank you all very much.
Helen


Thank you all very much for that wealth of information! One guy
suggested on the computer newsgroup suggested:
Samsung 940NW LCD Monitor, 19"
$189.95CAN
Features:
Response Time: 5ms
Contrast Ratio: 700:1
Brightness: 300cd/m2
Maximum Resolution: 1440 x 900
Analog RGB, DVI Digital Link
Viewing Angle: 160°/160°
Magic Colour, MagicTune and MagicBright 2 Technologies.
3-year Manufacturer's Limited Warranty.

That one looks good and it's about the right price for me. But I will
check out the models recommended by all of you. I don't want to spend
too much on myself, as it's getting close to Christmas.
Again, thanks guys!
Helen

On Oct 27, 2:39 pm, "Aussie." wrote:

Even the cheapest of the cheap are better (once set up) than the most
expensive of CRT monitors...

As expected from you, this is complete hogwash.
A good $500 CRT will kill a $500 LCD.
And I doubt that even the most expensive LCD monitors can compete with
a Sony Artisan, widely considered the reference standard among CRTs.

Yes, the CRT takes up more space, runs hotter and all that, but for
absolute color fidelity the CRT is still the way to go. Having said
that, LCD monitors have made great strides lately, especially in the +
$1000 range.
The big EIZO LCD, for example, always gets high marks from reviewers.

I've always given more thought to what monitor I use than any other
component since that is what you are looking at every day. Back in
the day I had a 15" NEC Multisync which was better than anything else
in it's class. Then I went to a 19" Iiyama which was also very good
before it went on the fritz. Since then I've been using my trusty
Lacie Electron Blue, which is a beautiful thing. I first learned of it
when the instructor at a national Photoshop seminar recommended it to
me.
You'll never know how good your pics really look until you view them
on a properly calibrated CRT. Of course, if you are looking at D-
Mac's pics you might not want the best.