Re: Monitors again-contrast vs color

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I know nothing about Nanao but you won't go wrong with the Sony, a Mitsubishi, or the LaCie.

Maris

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From: "jimhayes" <jimhayes@jymis.com>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: Monitors again-contrast vs color


| Opinions wanted on a good monitor to replace my 5 year old Nanao 20 (18.8) inch
| T220, with a trinitron aperture grill 0.30 tube :-( currently 1280 x 1024 and on
| it's last legs. Here's my situation:
| 
|  99%+ work is greyscale. I sometimes bring in digital camera images in RGB but
| do a channel mix in pshop to greyscale. I wind up with greyscale image files
| output to a quad ink epson 1160. images wind up around 16 x 11 inches at 360ppi
| maximum. And I need to have screen real estate and see details down to grain,
| noise and dust specks etc. Currently, my Nanao sometimes doesn't show things
| even at 100% that the actual full size MIS VM quad  print will. So color
| accuracy isn't as important as sharpness and contrast.
| 
| I use a dual display (Matrox G-400 32 mb) and fill  the other, 15 inch color
| monitor  up with pallets. I have some filters which require generic color in the
| GUI to make sense of them. There used to be monochrome monitors, but I have not
| heard of them lately, and there are certainly times when I DO want color on the
| main screen, as in channel mixing. I wouldn't mind trying out 1600 x 1200 for
| size. The environment is relatively stable lighting, and at very low levels. I
| just use Adobe Gamma for calibration, then I calibrate print output to monitor
| using a custom greyscale dotgain curve in pshop color settings.
| 
| When I see the off-brand CRT monitors these days in Office Depot, etc, I'm
| amazed at how detailed and clear even these have become while I've been holed up
| in my dark studio burning out my Nanao. I'm sure I would be satisfied with many
| of the newer monitors. I've been thinking of the 21 inch Sony CPD-G520, 21 inch
| Nanao T962, Lacie elctronblue 22 inch. I really don't want to go over $1000
| though. I'll consider an LCD but again, remember I like screen real estate and
| have price concerns. I don't know if I can live with less than 18.8", but it
| sure cuts the price down/ or gets an LCD. Meeting the TCO specs (95, 99) is nice
| , just in case there is something to all the talk. I want to avoid magnetising
| my brain, now that I bought my Ott-lite<g>.
| 
| Apologies for the length. Advice or perspective, anyone?
| TIA
| 
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