Hi Not exactly Frame related, but I'm after some advice about LCD monitors. After being the only tech writer in our team with a single monitor, I finally got given another monitor a couple of weeks ago. Hurray!! It's been a long wait. So now I have matching Viewsonic VA912 19" monitors. The second one is not new, but reassigned to me from someone else. Judging from the numbers, it is about the same age as my first monitor.
Apparently my PC has an on-board video card, so they connected the second monitor via an adaptor card (budget constraints!). This meant I had the first monitor on an analog feed, and the second monitor on a digital feed. The display on the second monitor is quite different from the first monitor in terms of colour, brightness and contrast. I have tried to adjust the second monitor to match the display of the first monitor, but I've been unsuccessful. I've tried the adjustments on the monitor and in the driver, but the display on the second monitor is still inferior to that on the first monitor. After complaining to our IST people, they fitted a new video card that they happened to have in stock (still budget constraints), but I notice that the first monitor is still on analog, and the second is still on digital, and I still can't get the displays to match. For many applications this is only a nuisance. However, for editing photographs it is a major problem. I take quite a few photos for my manuals and it is important that the edited versions of the photos I take are consistent for colour, brightness and contrast. This means that I cannot currently use the second monitor for editing photos, as the same photo looks so different on each monitor. Is there a way to get the second monitor to match the first one, or am I fighting a losing battle trying to get the digital input display to match the analog input display? Any help appreciated. Thanks Dave -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dave Reynolds Phone: (64) (3) 358 1029 Senior Technical Author Fax: (64) (3) 359 4632 Tait Electronics Ltd Email: dave.reynolds at tait.co.nz PO Box 1645 Christchurch New Zealand ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================
