RE: NEC monitors
RE: NEC monitors
- Subject: RE: NEC monitors
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:54:07 -0500
Gene,
I'm going to let other users of the list speak their mind separately by
responding to you directly. I'm curious what kind of interest will your
question stir in the other list members since this question of monitor
recommendation is a regular feature on this list, one that relentlessly
draws people from both sides of the fence (colloquially speaking). I find I
can talk openly about this subject because I don't have any commercial
interest in which brands of monitors or calibration packages or instruments
people ultimately buy. It so happened that I started 10 years ago in this
business, off a Mitsu 900u, like you. Coincidence, no doubt. But I've
enjoyed many years of service out of that 900u, until the day, that is,
there was money burning my pocket and needed to purchase a second (better)
display -- figured I'd spoil myself for all those long hours of hard work...
At any rate, I decided to stick with the NEC/Mistu brand again. This time, I
went for the 2060u, a 21" CRT. At that time, I remember other folks on the
list were buying SONY Artisans left and right. But I did not have that kind
of money. The NEC 2060u sounded like a no-brainer to me but mine,
surprisingly, came with a bad case of color convergence (yes, Richard, not
all bad NEC monitors end up in Europe). So I returned the 2060u to NEC for a
full refund. I thought it was very responsible on the part of NEC to swallow
the expense. Then, a few weeks later, because this threw me back to square
one in my research, having heard of the latest monitor kids on the block,
Eizo, with their amazing high end line of LCD monitors, I decided to take
the plunge and spent the thousands it took to get a CG21 on my desk.
Honestly, I never regretted the decision, even though I kept the box all
these years, in case I needed to return it to Eizo. The CG21 is still with
me, hooked up to my Macintosh (I'm writing off a Dell Win7 -- yes, a "PC").
It took me a while to get used to the CG21 1600x1200 resolution, for all
those years of 1150 x 960 eyestrain at what was then the standard Mac
resolution. I just couldn't afford a CG221, btw. Nor could I afford the NEC
true LED 21" LCD, which was also being introduced at that time. So, fast
forward a few years... At one point, I accepted a job for a large commercial
outfit. It was then and still is today, the most formidable professional
challenge I undertook in my life. It got me to work on every facets of the
color reproduction food chain, from client to press. Monitors, instruments,
hardcopy proofs, high-speed printing presses, ISO-type graphic arts
lighting, many high-end monitor calibration packages, tough, real world
clients, photographers, designers and so on. The list is just endless, it
seems. Then it slowly dawn on me that, what was most important -- this is my
very personal opinion, wasn't so much that a given monitor hit the holy
grail of color management numbers every time, you know, perfect D50/D65,
perfect L*/ 2.x gamma, perfect 0.30 cd/m2 black point, perfect gray
chromaticities throughout the tone scale, perfect gradients, perfect
uniformity, perfect everything : it was and still is whether the final
result on screen satisfactorily matched some analog in the external world,
whatever it needed to match, preferably a hard copy proof because that's
still what most people in the industry argues about most when debating color
matching. I don't know about your business but in the repro world, people
want predictability, assurance that their monitors can be trusted, within
reason, to be safe predictor of printing performance. I've had a PA241 on
my desk for the last six months -- time flies, I know --, and only have good
things to say about it. A quick search on the latest exchanges on the list
should turn out more information of the PA series but I would draw your
attention to Multiprofiler.
Success / Roger Breton
-----Original Message-----
From: colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=email@hidden
[mailto:colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=email@hidden] On
Behalf Of Gene Snyder
Sent: November-14-10 11:28 PM
To: Color Sync
Subject: NEC monitors
I am a serious amateur photographer with a need to replace a 10-yr. old
Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u. From the comments on this list I've gottent he
impression that the NEC PA241W and PA271W are quite good monitors for
serious color correction work. Is that impression deserved? If so, what is
the difference between the NEC models PA241W LCD2490WUXi2? Which would list
members recommend? Thanks for the info and your comments!
Gene Snyder
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