Re: Eizos and stuff
Re: Eizos and stuff
- Subject: Re: Eizos and stuff
- From: Marci Fermier <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:05:00 -0500
Okay, dealing with the strict budget limitations I've been handed, I've
found a handful of monitors I can talk the boss into -- can anyone give me
some real-world opinions/advice on these monitors, please??
1. LaCie 19" photon19vision LCD Display
2. Apple 20" Aluminum Cinema Display
3. Eizo Nanao 17" L568 LCD Monitor (only considering 17" because I found a
real steal of a price)
4. Eizo 19" L768 LCD Monitor
Or, I could get another LaCie Electron19blue (like the old one I'm using
now) if the CRT route is more reliable...?
Open to suggestions here!
> On May 8, 2005, at 3:03 PM, email@hidden
> wrote:
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 16:22:32 -0400
>> From: GARY BARNETT <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Eizos and stuff
>> To: email@hidden
>> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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>> Man, you guys are even more serious than I had guessed. I've used a
>> Barco in the past, but never heard of Eizos til today. Went to the
>> site. $$$ Are they that screamingly better than the LaCie? Please don't
>> laugh. I am new to this level of enthusiasm and refinement. I never
>> thought the Barco was all that sweet compared to 1) a Phillips
>> Brilliance 21 or 2) my LaCie electron 22 blue II with blue eye, which
>> is getting old enough to consider replacing, especially now that I
>> finally have a G5 headed my way.
>>
>> And I have never, even in a very dark room, been able to adjust to the
>> Barco or any other monitor at D50. Way too dim and yellow to my eyes.
>> D65/100cdm2 is fine by me, and looks very, very close to my GTI no
>> matter what illumination level I slide it to. Same with the floor
>> standing GTI models I have worked under.
>>
>> I see the Eizo flat screen has an amazing 250cdm2 and outrageous 1000:1
>> contrast ratio (I am so not used to LCD yet, can you tell?). Do you
>> guys, in general, make use of numbers like this in critical color work?
>> At my usual yahoo printing forums some people recommend around 85cdm2
>> on their CRTs (I know we are talking apples and oranges momentarily).
>> What gives? My impression of the Apple Cinema Displays, the only LCDs I
>> have had the opportunity to work with, is that the contrast was too
>> high even after adjusting to D65 and the brightness beyond usability
>> (for matching to either Epson 5000 or 9000 inkjets or Kodak Approvals,
>> 3M Matchprints or the final press products, despite being much easier
>> on the eye in general.
>>
>> I'm just starting to shop, and I'm glad I just found this discussion
>> group. I will try not to reveal the depth of my ignorance too often,
>> but could use an answer or two here before I let you guys go back to
>> speaking geek.
>>
>> And I thought, after 15 years, I had a handle on color management. Huh.
>> And I guess my rods and cones have been looking into the sun for too
>> long, even if I can still see red/blue shifts out their in galaxy land
>> on my scope. If I dim my GTI, it looks a tad warmer, not cooler. Oh
>> well. Maybe I should take up house remodeling or something. I've always
>> been pretty good with my hands.
>>
>> Thanks for the differing white-point-per-eye reassurance, by the way!
>>
>> Gary Barnett
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