Re: CRT v. LCD Differences
Re: CRT v. LCD Differences
- Subject: Re: CRT v. LCD Differences
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:17:36 -0700
On 2/23/05 3:31 PM, "Jon Gordon" wrote:
> Can you comment on the quality differences between the Sony Artisan, and the
> current high-end LCD monitors.
Let's just say that aside from a huge cost differential, I'm sticking with
my Artisan.
The only thing I see that looked interesting is the new display from Eizo
with the extended gamut. Checked it out at PMA. Now they say it "supports"
Adobe RGB (well that's pretty undefined, my Artisan supports it). They don't
say it produces the Adobe RGB (1998) gamut or a portion of such. I'm not
sure what they are referring to. Then there's the new marketing hype around
bit depth support and so forth.
They also had gradients up on the displays there being previewed through
Apples Preview. Nice and smooth. Problem is, that's a test that's fatally at
best. I made gradients in Photoshop and assigned the display profile and
yup, some banding and of course viewing angle issues. Neither are an issue
on the Artisan. The fellow at the booth seemed to be under the impression
that Photoshop was wrong and Preview was right (considering how the test
showed his product, you can hardly blame him). He didn't see to "get it"
that the test in Photoshop is not only using the display profile but its the
application people dropping $6300 are going to be using to work with images.
None the less, I can live with a small amount of banding and a lower
contrast ratio (and viewing angle) considering the usefulness of an extended
gamut display. It's too bad this unit is awfully expensive and the way in
which it's being marketed is a bit sneaky. The Eizo booth had an Artisan
there, without a hood, without the enable cable and calibrated with a 3rd
party colorimeter to show how it's not much better (or maybe they were
better) then the their product. That was a completely bogus exercise. These
guys may be onto some cool stuff but they don't see to have the confidence
to show their products honestly IMHO. At $6300 is a lot of dough!
Andrew Rodney
http://digitaldog.net/
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