Re: Best CRT or Flat Monitor for Softproofing?
Re: Best CRT or Flat Monitor for Softproofing?
- Subject: Re: Best CRT or Flat Monitor for Softproofing?
- From: Jim Rich <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:54:05 -0500
On 2/14/04 12:33 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Yes, it was sitting side by side with an Artisan, with both monitors
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displaying the same image in Photoshop. While the Eizo has many wonerful
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properties, the Eizo system was much warmer with a pronounced brown cast (in
comparison with the Artisan) depending where you looked. Opening a grayscale in
PS on both monitors showed the same shift conclusively. I spoke with the rep who
said he thought the matching was perfectly acceptable, and maybe it is for many
applications. I circled back a few times during MacWorld to see if it got any
better and also watched as they calibrated both.
Eric,
I was not at the Mac World in SF so I don9t know exactly what you were
looking at.
Let me first say, I like both the Artisan and the Eizo monitors. From my
point-of-view they both (the Artisan and the Eizo monitors ) offer high-end
color viewing options for a variety of critical and not so critial
end-users especially when compared to the other LCD that are available.
My experiences in a more realistic setting than a trade show was
different.
Recently, I had 3 Eizos, a Cinema Display and an Artisan in my office with
about 15 color experts who were comparing each monitor very closely. And
no one ever came close to seeing a brown gray scale on any of the monitors
(or viewing angle issues with the Eizos) and these experts made sure all of
the monitors were using images with properties such as Photoshop generated
grayscales. And when a continuous grayscale ramp was created on those
monitors the Eizo had the best view because of its 10 bit display. This was
a big WOW for that group of experts.
And before this event I profiled the Eizo displays with at least three
different brands of profiling applications (Color Navigator, Gretag and
Monaco) and three instruments (Optix XR, Eyeone Monitor and Eyeone Display)
to see the cause and effect. The results were quite good with all of those
tools even with out being able to take advantage of the 10 bit data when
using the Gretag and Monaco applications.
I have also seen a few other Eizos (at other locations) since the Imaging
Experts Group met and those monitors did not have any weird behavior (like
brown gray ramps). And I even got to compare the Eizo to some Barcos.
Sure there are technical differences between CRTs and LCDs that affect how
color is displayed. But from the evidence in the field, so far, with this
product any color differences seem to be very small. And as it has been
pointed out, if you did not have the ability to compare an Artisan to an
Eizo side-by-side, you would not be able to say they are visually different
with any degree of confidence.
It sounds like your experience is different from mine. So for what it is
worth, that is my .02.
Jim Rich
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