Re: What does your monitor show you?

frederick wrote:
Mark² wrote:
frederick wrote:
John Meyer wrote:
In article <uwBQh.90625$ZA5.42826@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> wrote:

I'm curious to discover what people's monitors are registering/not
registering in terms of shadow details and highlight details.

Please indicate a whether you can read the text in each of the
following: Dark image sample:
http://www.pbase.com/markuson/image/76619046/original
Light image sample:
http://upload.pbase.com/markuson/image/76628594/original

This becomes significant when discussing some aspets of photos
that are shared here.

Thanks for you input...and...no cheating! :)

Mark
I can read both of them, no problem. The light image shows less
contrast and is a bit harder to see. Apple 23" Cinema Display, 1900
x 1200, calibrated with Apple's Display Calibrator Assistant.

That is further verification of what I've seen with those darned
expensive Apple Cinema displays - they are extremely good. Even the
Imac 23 screens seem great - my wife want me to dump my PC, all my
cables and bulky CRT and get one as a "decor item", and I'm running
out of arguments to resist.

They are definitely nice looking screens, but they really aren't
considered the best in terms of consistency of color/brightness
across the screen... The key there, like with ANY screen, is
calibration. Calibration won't deal with inconsistency in the
corners, etc., but it will make the best of whatever screen you
have. Right now I just plunked a relatively cheap (for its size)
24" LCD on my system running at 1920x1200, and after calibration, it
shows even more than my little test. Before calibration, it was
super bright (factory defaults seem to always try and snag viewers
with high brighness and super high contrast), but couldn't see the
dark text at all. Even after calibration, it isn't quite as good as
my 20" Viewsonic LCD.
I have this image:
http://i13.tinypic.com/4hvgeux.png on my website. For sure it's not
as critical as the test images that you posted, but handy for me to
access when looking at screens on display at computer stores that were
connected to the www.
I was pretty impressed with the Imacs - with all other LCDs sold as
"bundles" with OEM windows PCs, the shift in gamma with change in
horizontal or vertical viewing angle was horrible. The Imacs were
very good. (But the basic non "pro" Macbooks were truly terrible) The
store didn't have a 23" Cinema display connected, only a 30". It
made me think that it would almost be worth redesigning my office to
accommodate it. I know that you can get far better displays for PCs
than ship with standard - even high-end "bundles", but where I am
they're seldom set up on display in a situation where you can check
them out properly, and I'm loathe to trust reviews, as the
manufacturers seem to change model name designations and possibly
their source for the panels for the same model as the wind changes.

Depending on how much you want to spend...there are definitely LCDs that
will deliver the goods...even if you don't see them in person. If you're
willing to spend about $1600, a couple offerings from Lacie and NEC
(essentially the same 21" screen) are as good as it gets, shy of spending
about $4K or more.

You're right about monitors displayed in stores. Half the time, they aren't
even being fed video at their native resolution(!!) so they look like utter
crap. Even when they are, you have no control over what card, video
settings, gamma settings, etc. are being thrown at it. So in that sense, I
think you're sometimes actually better off reading reviews--not from PC
reviewers, but from GRAPHICS reviewers. -Folks who are as picky as me. :)

--
Images (Plus Snaps & Grabs) by Mark² at:
www.pbase.com/markuson


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