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Monitor recommendations (1 Viewer)
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Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
A lot depends on how serious you are on image editing Barry. For any accurate work you should avoid monitors with TN panels for a start. My best advice is not to skimp on buying a monitor, for anything decent you are looking at around the £500 + mark. Look for something with a wide colour gamut. You should also be looking to buy a monitor that calibrates up nicely. Makes that come to mind are Eizo, NEC and some of the high end Dell's. Best panels are S-IPS followed by S-PVA/MVA.If you are not so concerned with image editing then you can of course pick-up cheaper monitors.
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Have a look at the Samsung range, some good deals to be had even at PC World, fantastic quality especially when colour balance is critical such as for photo editing.:t:
kitefarrago
Well-known member
There have been a lot of monitor threads on http://forums.dpreview.com and some of the people commenting really seem to know their stuff.
I too am looking for a new monitor, and am trying to find some kind of sensible compromise between expenditure and image quality/calibration. I found a lot of good information on that site, including links to fairly in-depths tests of various displays. Also, the general discussions gave me some models to research in more depth. In the end I decided to postpone my decision for a number of reasons, so I can't give you a personal recommendation.
Andrea
I too am looking for a new monitor, and am trying to find some kind of sensible compromise between expenditure and image quality/calibration. I found a lot of good information on that site, including links to fairly in-depths tests of various displays. Also, the general discussions gave me some models to research in more depth. In the end I decided to postpone my decision for a number of reasons, so I can't give you a personal recommendation.
Andrea
I have to say that I am impressed with Dell in more ways than one - at work, and in the home office together. :gh:
I think it depends on many things - what you wish to use it for - we use CAD (Computer Aided Design) AutoCAD on our PC so we need a large screen - amongst other similar packages to do with drawing office tools. :t:
So....if it was a general day to day texting or Forums like BF, I would use a smaller monitor which would be suitable for that purpose alone :t:
We have 19 inch here and it does fine for us.
Regards
Kathy
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I think it depends on many things - what you wish to use it for - we use CAD (Computer Aided Design) AutoCAD on our PC so we need a large screen - amongst other similar packages to do with drawing office tools. :t:
So....if it was a general day to day texting or Forums like BF, I would use a smaller monitor which would be suitable for that purpose alone :t:
We have 19 inch here and it does fine for us.
Regards
Kathy
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I'm in the middle of the same hunt... and am very likely to end up with the Dell U2410. The main alternative at this price mark (<£500 ) is the Asus PA246q. Both are IPS monitors and both come pre-calibrated. Strengths/weaknesses in both, but this is relative to what is a completely different level of performance so both will knock spots of anything you're using at the moment.
Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
I have a Dell U2410 and can highly recommend it for image editing - for the money its takes some beating IMO. I do think it is better to calibrate it yourself to get the best out if it rather than rely on the pre-calibration's - I use eye one display2 and it calibrates up brilliantly (much better than using one of the pre-sets).
