Re: What are the best monitors on the market
Re: What are the best monitors on the market
- Subject: Re: What are the best monitors on the market
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 10:58:20 EDT
In a message dated 7/1/06 7:21:15 AM, email@hidden writes:
Since we are on the subject of monitors again, what are the current
suggestions for a very good LCD monitor when available money is not
unlimited.....?
This is a perennial question, and I am not aware of any resource that tests each new monitor model as it ships, and determines its actual specs and fitness for use as a graphics/photographic monitor. It would be a major undertaking. When a similar question about "what monitors are good enough for color managed usage" was asked this week at the Pro Photo Summit, I brought down the house with the comment that one should go to Radio Shack, see what models they carried, and then not buy those...
It was not simply a joke though; Radio Shack does a very good job of screening cost/value ratios and only selling models that are cost efficient for the consumer, which makes for a cutoff almost exactly where the serious user wants to start looking. A couple of years ago we used to say: over $500 is a good starting point, but the Viewsonic $499 monitors that we based that on are now available, if you hit the right sale, for $200 and some odd. But there are also plenty of $200 and some odd monitors that are not worth color managaging.
Another panelist at the Summit suggested that users avoid LCDs below 19 inches, as they tended to be older technologies, with lower specs, while the larger screens tended to be better. Its true that many lines have added their 19 inch and larger screens more recently, and that more of them are of a quality to color manage, but there is the inverse situation as well, where users often look at two units, a good smaller one, and a weaker larger one for a similar price, and opt for the larger size, instead of the higher quality.
Overall, there is no golden rule here, and its best to let someone else test a new model first, and to buy it after someone you know, or whose judgement you trust, has given it a good review.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
email@hidden
www.colorvision.com
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