[argyllcms] Re: Recommended LCD monitor?
- From: Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:03:02 -0600
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 13:38 +0100, Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Leonard Evens
> <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am ready to give up on my Samsung 226CW. I had a lot of success with
> > a Viewpoint CRT, but it just got to dim, which is why I bought the
> > Samsung.
> > (Because of my back I can't manage the weight of a CRT.) I called
> > Xrite about another matter and was told they regularly have problems
> > advising people with Samsungs, but that almost any other of the standard
> > brands in the range $300-600 should produce decent results. (I can't
> > see spending several thousand on a first class professional monitor, and
> > I shouldn't need one for the work I do.)
> >
> > I was looking at some monitors at Office Depot today, and i noticed that
> > the adjustments for Viewpoint monitors seemed similar to those on my
> > CRT, although I suppose they do entirely different things. I had a
> > good understanding of what I was doing when calibrating/profiling my
> > CRT, but I am still not clear what the best procedure should be for an
> > LCD, partly because it is not very clear just what the controls do.
> >
> > Any recommendations for a monitor that was easy to work with?
>
> I'm having very decent results with my HP LP2475w... But are you sure
> your Samsung really is the problem...
NO. The problem is that I don't understand what the controls actually
do, so it is hard to use them to calibrate/profile. And if I just try
to use `default' settings, I don't seem to do as well as I do when using
the monitor controls.
>
> Regards,
> Pascal de Bruijn
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