What is your favorite monitor?

imann08 · December 12, 2006

I am looking into a new LCD monitor and was wondering if people had ones they liked. With wide screen monitors I have heard that they conflict with Wacom tablets due to the 16:9 as opposed to 4:3. Oh, and I use a PC.

Just wanted to hear if people had ones they especially liked.

David_S85 · December 12, 2006

Hence the new 16:10 tablets on the market.

I like my ViewSonic 23 inch widescreen. Plenty of room for editing at 1920 x 1200. The Color Adjust>sRGB mode makes it easy to proof shots. I haven't found a need to calibrate it yet.

imann08 · December 13, 2006

David_S85 wrote:

Hence the new 16:10 tablets on the market.

I like my ViewSonic 23 inch widescreen. Plenty of room for editing at 1920 x 1200. The Color Adjust>sRGB mode makes it easy to proof shots. I haven't found a need to calibrate it yet.

I've already got a tablet and don't really want to spend more money on a new one. Thanks for letting me know what you thought of your monitor.

gus · December 13, 2006

imann08 wrote:

Just wanted to hear if people had ones they especially liked.

My 21" Sony CRT. When they make an LCD that comes close to it & can show me just that working in a shop..i will buy it.

imann08 · December 13, 2006

I am currently using a Mitsubishi 21". It's the same thing since they use Sony's trinitron technology. I just want to move up in size while freeing up some space on my desk since I already am using dual monitors. I have heard some pretty good things about Samsung's LCDs so far. The LCDs quality has gotten good enough for me to make the transition.

binghott · December 17, 2006

dell 24" (i want another one)

cabbey · December 17, 2006

imann08 wrote:

Just wanted to hear if people had ones they especially liked.

The good old IBM P monitor line is probably the best CRTs I've ever spent a lot of time infront of, the P200 had a trinitron tube (same as Sony TVs with the same name) and was awesome for resolution and brightness.

As far as LCDs go, which is all I'll buy at this point, I'm in love with the samsung syncmaster line.

Poseidon · December 18, 2006

I have dual 204B's from Samsung, after calibration I like them very much! Outta the box however, they were not so good....

imann08 · December 21, 2006

I ended up getting the Samsung 244T. I hope I am pleased with it. We'll see how it goes.

Pupator · December 24, 2006

I have a ViewSonic 20.1" (widescreen) a Dell 20.1" (widescreen) a Dell 17" and an NEC 17". I love them all - but the ViewSonic and NEC are better than the Dells.

Sam · December 24, 2006

Lacie Electron 22 Blue IV (22" CRT)

I love it!

Sam

cabbey · December 27, 2006

imann08 wrote:

I ended up getting the Samsung 244T. I hope I am pleased with it. We'll see how it goes.

That's the model I'm looking at moving to here, let us know how you like it!

System · December 27, 2006

binghott wrote:

dell 24" (i want another one)

I just got one of these and am very impressed with it. Running it in a dual monitor set up with my old 17" Apple Studio LCD it makes the Apple look dingy. The Dell is at least 50% brighter when set at 50% compared to the Apple at 100% brightness. The Apple's whites also look very yellow in comparison, sorta like aged newsprint. It would seem I'll be adding a Dell 19" (4:3) to replace the aging Apple in this dual set up.

BunZo · January 5, 2007

The 30" Dell must be seen to be believed!

gus · January 5, 2007

truth wrote:

I just got one of these and am very impressed with it. Running it in a dual monitor set up with my old 17" Apple Studio LCD it makes the Apple look dingy. The Dell is at least 50% brighter when set at 50% compared to the Apple at 100% brightness. The Apple's whites also look very yellow in comparison, sorta like aged newsprint. It would seem I'll be adding a Dell 19" (4:3) to replace the aging Apple in this dual set up.

Truth can you happily say that you can do good colour editing on it ? I have my old fav 21" CRT Sony & whilst i love it...it is seriously just too bulky (its 2 feet deep) I always look at diff LCD's & can never say im happy with what i see.

I have not looked at the dell though. Maybe its time i tried looking at them again.

System · January 5, 2007

Gus, so far so good though I am using an eye-one display 2 to calibrate. Once I weaseled around the preset madness Dell sends them out with I was able to dial it in spot on according to the eye-one. I guess time will tell as I do more editing on it. With winters short dull days up here I'm not shooting much. Been delving deep into my shallow pool of coding skills trying to learn this web design crap.

The 24" Dell is a very good value, but by no means is it the best LCD out there. I'm happy with the purchase. The 19" (1907) is total crap.

CatOne · January 7, 2007

truth wrote:

I just got one of these and am very impressed with it. Running it in a dual monitor set up with my old 17" Apple Studio LCD it makes the Apple look dingy. The Dell is at least 50% brighter when set at 50% compared to the Apple at 100% brightness. The Apple's whites also look very yellow in comparison, sorta like aged newsprint. It would seem I'll be adding a Dell 19" (4:3) to replace the aging Apple in this dual set up.

If the Apple looks yellow by comparison to the Dell's white, perhaps you should color calibrate them ;-) My 30" Cinema is decidedly "yellower" now than it was when I got it, but that's specifically because I color calibrated it to have a white point in the 5000K range... making it white like daylight. Having a "bluer" white point doesn't make the monitor any better -- the goal is to have things look like they will when they're printed

Art Scott · January 7, 2007

I've gotta make a move soon....my vertical / horizontal are going out....I have to hit the sides and top of monitor to get it to straighten out and that is only a temporary fix....

Retailers in this area are trying to push View Sonic and LG flat screens.
Is any one currently using either of these two and your thoughts on them would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

gus · January 7, 2007

Art Scott wrote:

I've gotta make a move soon....my vertical / horizontal are going out....I have to hit the sides and top of monitor to get it to straighten out and that is only a temporary fix....

Retailers in this area are trying to push View Sonic and LG flat screens.
Is any one currently using either of these two and your thoughts on them would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Do make a post mate & let us know what (if) one you decide on.

colourbox · January 7, 2007

imann08 wrote:

I am looking into a new LCD monitor and was wondering if people had ones they liked. With wide screen monitors I have heard that they conflict with Wacom tablets due to the 16:9 as opposed to 4:3.

There is no technical conflict. For many years (on the Mac at least), the Wacom driver software has let you choose how you want to map the tablet area to the monitor area. If you have a screen wider than the tablet, you can choose whether you want to use a smaller, narrower area of the tablet, or use the whole tablet anamorphically (squeezed). These options existed even back when monitors were the same size, because they helped you adapt the tablet to any multiple-monitor arrangement.

Wacom does have new "wide" tablets that are a much more physically consistent with widescreen monitors and wide multiple monitor setups. However, they cost sufficiently more than the tablet I have now that I don't see the point in upgrading. The 5080 dpi resolution of the Intuos tablet grid is so much higher than the monitor that even if you have a relatively small tablet, or a tablet that is not quite the right shape for your setup, you can still precisely control the cursor over a large monitor setup.

As far as how the colors on an Apple and Dell look, it's not very relevant how they look uncalibrated. It's more relevant to look at how easily each can be calibrated.

Pupator · January 7, 2007

Art Scott wrote:

Retailers in this area are trying to push View Sonic and LG flat screens.
Is any one currently using either of these two and your thoughts on them would be appreciated.

I have a 20.1" WS Viewsonic that I love. Of my four monitors at home and work (ViewSonic, 20.1" Dell, 17" Dell, 17" NEC) The viewsonic is my favorite to work on.

Bendr · January 7, 2007

I Just got my HP f2105 21" widescreen,

It's sweet!
I love the extra screen space!

k2c1959 · January 12, 2007

monitor
i just recently bought the 24" dell widescreen lcd and can honestly say after many many years of crt usage, im not really that impressed. dont get me wrong, it is a excellent monitor, but for image editing, im actually thinking of hooking my dual samsumg crt 19inchers back up. there recently was an article that was published in digital photo mag that claimed the dell lcd's were hands down the best and were good enough to replace your crt's.. i ihave to disagree with that. but N E Way to each his own. i have lots of desk real estate and space saving was not the reason for buying, i bought it strictly because i thought maybe it was time to upgrade???

Skippy · January 17, 2007

gus wrote:

Truth can you happily say that you can do good colour editing on it ? I have my old fav 21" CRT Sony & whilst i love it...it is seriously just too bulky (its 2 feet deep) I always look at diff LCD's & can never say im happy with what i see.

I have not looked at the dell though. Maybe its time i tried looking at them again.

Gus........... Dell are supposedly moving to ChiMei Brand Monitors, it is only a rumour but I have read it on a couple of different sights now.... Skippy

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/review.aspx?CIaRID=3022

CatOne · January 18, 2007

30" Cinema Display. It's the shizzy.

Not what I'd call "cheap" though

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