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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 |
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What Type Of Monitor Is Best For Viewing Pics?
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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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 -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |
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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 -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |
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JimKramer wrote in
oups.com: On Oct 27, 2:08 pm, Harry Lockwood wrote: In article . com, 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 --www.pbase.com/hlockwood Change hlockwood to hflockwood in email address 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. -- http://www.annika1980.com -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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What Type Of Monitor Is Best For Viewing Pics?
On Oct 27, 2:08 pm, Harry Lockwood wrote:
In article . com, 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 --www.pbase.com/hlockwood Change hlockwood to hflockwood in email address 5 years ago I would have agreed, but not any longer. Jim |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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