Are CRTs still preferred over LCDs?

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:28:56 -0000, "John Fryatt" wrote:

Two LCDs would give me back a fair bit of space, but I
wouldn’t want to lose anything, quality-wise, by going that way.
Thanks, John

Well, then get prepared to spend a lot of money on a quality LCD. Does that beautiful Mac LCD still cost $2500? I’ve not looked at the price recently.

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:28:56 -0000, "John Fryatt" wrote:

That’s it really, do you think a CRT monitor is preferable, for Photoshop image editing, to an LCD monitor? And, if so, why?

Two reasons: Colour reproduction and money.

You can have a good quality CRT with good colour repro for a trivial amount of money these days. In fact, you can have two 🙂

OTOH, if you want good colour repro on a TFT, then you’ll have to buy something like an Eizo, one of which will cost you the amount you would spend on 3-4 CRTs.

The choice is yours.

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Hecate

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CRT’s are the way to go, I’d say – they are cheep these days as well.

JD

The viewing angle is not much of an issue with a good LCD monitor and they do free up alot of desk space. Now on the issue of color matching, I mainly do web graphics and printing on a home ink jet (Epson 1200 with ImageReady driver). How precise of color matching is required for this type of work? Probably close is good enough IMHO. I’ve had more trouble with gamma then colors. For example I create a night scene with low light details, some people comment that the image is to dark others that the image details show up fine on their monitors.

Glenn

"John Fryatt" wrote in message

That’s it really, do you think a CRT monitor is preferable, for Photoshop image editing, to an LCD monitor? And, if so, why?
I’ve always understood, from reading stuff, that a CRT gives better colour accuracy than an LCD, and has much better viewing angle. Certainly that’s true comparing my portable’s screen with the monitor on my big box. Is it still true for good quality desk-top LCDs though?
I’m just thinking about getting a new PC, and wouldn’t mind freeing up some space on the desk, which is currently dominated by two CRT monitors. Two LCDs would give me back a fair bit of space, but I wouldn’t want to lose anything, quality-wise, by going that way.
Thanks, John

"Glenn" wrote in message

The viewing angle is not much of an issue with a good LCD monitor and they do free up alot of desk space. Now on the issue of color matching, I

mainly

do web graphics and printing on a home ink jet (Epson 1200 with ImageReady driver). How precise of color matching is required for this type of work? Probably close is good enough IMHO. I’ve had more trouble with gamma then colors. For example I create a night scene with low light details, some people comment that the image is to dark others that the image details

show

up fine on their monitors.

Glenn

Correction, half-asleep here. The printer driver is Adobe PressReady not ImageReady.

Glenn

"John Fryatt" wrote in message

That’s it really, do you think a CRT monitor is preferable, for Photoshop image editing, to an LCD monitor? And, if so, why?
I’ve always understood, from reading stuff, that a CRT gives better colour accuracy than an LCD, and has much better viewing angle. Certainly that’s true comparing my portable’s screen with the monitor on my big box. Is it still true for good quality desk-top LCDs though?
I’m just thinking about getting a new PC, and wouldn’t mind freeing up some space on the desk, which is currently dominated by two CRT monitors. Two LCDs would give me back a fair bit of space, but I wouldn’t want to lose anything, quality-wise, by going that way.
Thanks, John

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:27:40 -0500, "Glenn"
wrote:

The viewing angle is not much of an issue with a good LCD monitor and they do free up alot of desk space. Now on the issue of color matching, I mainly do web graphics and printing on a home ink jet (Epson 1200 with ImageReady driver). How precise of color matching is required for this type of work? Probably close is good enough IMHO. I’ve had more trouble with gamma then colors. For example I create a night scene with low light details, some people comment that the image is to dark others that the image details show up fine on their monitors.

In your case if it’s good enough for you, then that’s fine.

Your other problem with people seeing things differently on there monitors is something you can do nothing about. Unless they have the same monitor, with identical settings identically colour matched (and even then…) people will always see images differently on their monitor. Hell, even with the sort of matching that’s required for prepress print, people will see prints differently due to the quality of their optical definition (i.e. how well there eyes can see things) and due to gender – men have problems differentiating colour as well as women.

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Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

I bought a new CRT 17" (Sampo Alphascan 718) monitor the other day. I was staggered after I’d got home and set it up, the comparison with the Dell ES-17 I bought only 3 years ago was ermmmm, dare I say it,… incomparable! Much greater colour definition, much truer colours, more depth, all in all a much clearer and more precise images and text effects than I’d ever seen on a monitor. All this for less than