I've been shopping too, although just fro general upgrade because my CRTs are near the end of their lives. The key thing to look for is an LCD that supports a wide color space -- as close to AdobeRGB (assuming that's your default) as possible. And also look at the menu controls -- not all LEDs have RGB color adjustments and if they don't, they can't be profiled.
The LaCie 324 has gotten pretty good reviews and it's fairly cheap (about a grand), and Eizo, although they're pricier. There's a new 22" Dell ~$450 that's gotten decent reviews, but some people have complained about color shift across the screen; may just be new product bugs working out though. The Apple Cinemas are supposed to be pretty good also, and there's also an H-P that's pretty decent -- I have the model number written down at home, but it seems to be built on the same 22" base as the Dell -- specs seem to be about the same. Cheers, Art On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Mike Wickham <mewickham at compuserve.com> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I recently had the fun experience of having lightning strike. It blew out > the phone and cable lines, and took out computers, all the network boxes, > TVs, and lots of other electronic equipment. Some jacks were blown out of > the walls and even knobs got blown off of a clothes dryer! > > One of the things that took a hit was my LaCie electron22blueIV monitor that > I use for color correction of photos. It's not made anymore, so I'm looking > to replace it with something else. Any suggestions? > > At one time, LCDs were not supposed to be good enough for this purpose, but > that seems to have changed. Is anyone still selling CRTs for this purpose, > or are LCDs by LaCie, Eizo, and others the only options now? I'm not against > LCDs-- and would actually prefer one, if not outrageously expensive. > > Mike Wickham > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
