"SpaceGirl" wrote in message
On Apr 16, 6:25 am, Rob wrote:
SpaceGirl wrote:
Rob wrote:
www.kevinkienlein.comwrote:
Samsung or viewsonic, or if you are rich, an apple/Mac monitor!! kk
which are made by samsung!
To Apple specification.
Is that the badge? or are there other differences?
The screen tolerance is better (apparently) and the back lights higher specification (whatever that means!). The panels may come out of the same factory, but they are not the same physical panels, or so I have been told.
Everything you hear, read and see related to LCD screens needs to be considered with a grain of salt. Recently the firm I work for replaced 6 Sony CRT screens with "wide screen" LCD monitors. It took over a month to decide on which ones to buy. We also changed the graphics cards in all the PCs.
I’d like to suggest the make of the screen is not as important as some things not previously mentioned in the thread. Firstly the Video card Absolutely must have a Digital Video plug and you absolutely must use a Digital connection between your monitor and PC to get the full dynamic range of the monitor to display on the screen.
VGA plugs and cables are "last resort" methods of connecting an LCD screen. Don’t use them. Remember too that digital Photography is sRGB compliant. Not much point in sending Adobe RGB data to an sRGB printer when it can’t use it.
We spent many years using mixed RGB processes and much wasted time painstakingly matching the output devices (HP and Epson wide format + Xerox digital) I used to get a "close match" colour balance.
We discovered now we have LCDs, that using sRGB for everything except PS editing (even then convert back after the edit) allows us to have not just "good enough" matching but excellent colour match between widely differing input and output devices.
The key to this was buying a decent LCD specific colour calibration system. Surprisingly not as expensive as I expected.
In the end we bought 2 Viewsonic "Pro" series 20" wide screen monitors and 4, 20" wide screen LG ‘Flatron" monitors with 2000:1 contrast ratio. All of them needed extensive alteration to their out of the box setup and all of them are amazingly similar to look at now. For the first time in years, we can print to any of our printers from any of our workstations and get the same results.
Julian