Re: NEC or Eizo Monitor
Re: NEC or Eizo Monitor
- Subject: Re: NEC or Eizo Monitor
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:12:48 -0800 (PST)
- Importance: Normal
I just did the same thing and went with the NEC based on Andrew's recs.
I got the smaller 222 model to try it out which I think is a PVA panel and
not an IPS like the 2 larger sizes.
Mine is a little darker toward the right and left edges than my friends
Eizo 22 which is very even looking.
I have had a few unresolved problems with the NEC though.
When calibrating on my G5 with 10.4 or my Macbook Pro with 10.5 using
spectraview and the NEC puck, the screen would come out very pink using
the default d65 settings. When I used my Optix XR puck with spectraview on
the same machines the screen came out good and neutral.
NEC sent me a new puck in a timely matter but that did not fix the pink
cast and behaved the same as the first puck. NEC has since broke off
contact with me which left me to use the (incorrect) optix puck as that
was better than manually tweaking the WP.
Fast forward a few weeks and I build a 'hackintosh' tower running 10.6.2
with the same spectraview version 1.1.03 and suddenly the NEC puck seems
to be working correctly with that machine, no pink cast and has smoother
gradients in photoshop than the optix puck. Also a green to magenta cast
across the screen that was visible on the other 2 machines is not visible
on the hackintosh.
I find this very weird and am not sure if it's snow leopard causing the
positive change or the components in the (lifehacker build) hackintosh.
I'm also not sure if there might be a bigger issue of this combo not
actually adjusting the white point at all and maybe I'm seeing the default
WP instead which is pretty good. I need to test more.
To further confuse things, on this new machine, when I choose different
matrix profiles of different gammas in the monitor CP, I get opposite
behavior than what I have seen before. For instance, choosing a 2.2 gamma
like A98 now makes my desktop LIGHTER and choosing a 1.8 like colormatch
or apple makes it DARKER. That's backward I thought. I know snow leopard
moved to a default 2.2 gamma but don't see how that plays into this.
Any thoughts?
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