Re: Barco vs Eizo
Re: Barco vs Eizo
- Subject: Re: Barco vs Eizo
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:17:34 -0700
At 2:36 PM +0100 9/10/05, Martin Orpen wrote:
>on 10/9/05 13:26, Roger Breton at email@hidden wrote:
><snip>
>The CG220 looks pretty ugly and I still can't believe that such an expensive
>device has only one USB socket!
On one hand I see your point about the USB port but on the other hand, I don't typically use a display for a hub. I find a keyboard plugs into it just fine and that's all I want on my desk.
Also, I like the design of the 220. It's black, which is good for viewing. It has clear controls on the front and their hood has a slider in the middle for allowing a calibrator hanger / cable to pass through when profiling. Once I fire one up I don't find myself looking at the display's edges anyway, the gamut of this one is pretty amazing. I guess our tastes must simply differ on this point...
>I also question the usefulness of the effort that has gone in to matching
>Adobe1998? What relevance does it have outside of Photoshop?
tons!
the CG220 is the only display I have found so far that has a sufficient gamut to display all of press Cyan from SWOP.
Now we can argue that SWOP is a loose definition but TR001 is good enough for now and I find that it also displays 99% of the DTR004 gamut (GRACoL sheet fed).
THAT is incredibly relevant to some people. Yes Adobe RGB is used within Photoshop but the images contained in it are relevant across the entire workflow. Many people also do their own final prints for display and the 220 comes much closer to showing all inkjet colors as well.
>That said, the gamut and the image quality *is* everything that they claim
>and it made our 23" Cinema Displays look very lacklustre by comparison.
>
>But, when you've clicked the *ink black* and *paper white* checkboxes, I'd
>rather have 3 Cinema Displays and an i1 for pre-press work!
they still won't display a boatload of Cyan / Green detail though, regardless of the level of black.
>You still can't trust your eyes when working in CMYK
why not? SWOP has certified a number of soft-proofing systems and at least one of them (Remote Director) is being upgraded with press-console features so it can be used "on press"
Hell has indeed frozen over for a number of people and they are enjoying the skating!
>What's the point of spending more than 3x the price of a similar (and
>larger) monitor when you spend most of your time watching the colour values?
I suppose because there are a lot of people who don't watch the numbers.
>However, if you're a photographer who wants the closest you can get to
>WYSIWYG in Adobe1998 - it's most probably worth every penny.
in that we are in agreement.
I don't deny that its price is outside most people's budgets but for those who want or need what it offers I think it is a great solution.
Regards,
Steve
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