On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:44:10 CEST, Stefan Klinger wrote: > * What monitor do you use?
I've been running with two Dells for the past few years, U3014 and U2711, respectively. I read whatever photo-oriented reviews were available at the time, matched their results against the available budget and filtered by required screen size and resolution. You absolutely *need* to calibrate as these are wide-gamut screens, though. Dell and NEC were recommendations when it came to reasonable brands at reasonable prices (that one filtered out Eizo), but that's just a second-hand knowledge not based on many facts. > * What graphics card do you use, and do you use it with a FOSS > graphics driver? AFAIK OpenCL pretty much binds me to a > proprietary driver — right? That's what I've been told by various sources when I tried to find a decent FLOSS-compatible GPU a couple of months ago. So I don't have OpenCL for now. If I was buying a GPU, I would be looking for passive cooling if possible due to the noise. > * What colorimeter/photometer do you use? And how does it play with > Linux? I bought the cheapest thing which was available years ago, the Pantone Huey. It is not perfect for wide-gamut LCDs as it requires some software look-up matrix AFAIK (I won't pretend to be a color scientist). If I was buying a new thing today, I would probably go with the ColorHug, an open hardware built and sold by a Gnome developer. > * Do you have to use non-FOSS software in certain aspects of your > workflow? (Maybe MS-Windows on a VirtualBox to get the ICC > profile from the calibration tool?) I never even unpacked the CDs which came with the LCDs, the cameras, or the calibration device. Argyll CMS, dispcalgui and gnome-color-manager (even though I'm a KDE user running the Plasma desktop) were all that I used for color management purposes. > Currently I'm thinking about getting Eizo's CS240 I found out that while 2560x1600 and a 30" screen looked huuuuuuge at the beginning, I adapted very quickly and love each square cm that I now have available. I don't have much experience with higher-DPI screens except the U2711 (2560x1440 at 27", so only about 110 PPI), so I cannot tell how useful these are for, e.g., evaluating photo sharpness. Keep an eye on what resolution your system (and it's not really just the GPU) can drive and at what refresh rate. The recent 4K screens look nice, but they might not be supported at 60Hz on various machines. > Don't get me wrong, I can compromise and use a closed-source graphics > driver. But if there's a choice, I'd rather pay a little more for the > benefit of manufacturers collaborating with FOSS. It's not only about money, but also about being able to maintain one's own sanity with the drivers. I'm using a Thinkpad T420s (with a dock) which has an Intel SandyBridge GPU, and I'm happy with the state of their driver so far. They don't do OpenCL, unfortunately. Cheers, Jan -- Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
