On Dec 10, 2004, at 3:17 PM, Herb Chong wrote:
for highest quality at reasonable price, CRTs are still better.
For the purposes of photo editing, definitely.
LCD are tough to calibrate and are viewing position sensitive for critical color.
Generally LCDs can't be calibrated at all as you can't adjust the colour rendition of the backlight. They can however be profiled, which allows the software to correct for it (within limits of course).
Expensive LCDs don't have position sensitivity but that's not exactly staying within most peoples budgets :)
if you're going to do much photographic work, at least the viewing position
sensitivity may be annoying. if you aren't planning to calibrate anyway, LCD
or CRT isn't as important. LCDs tend to be brighter though.
I would suggest that the money you save buying a CRT instead of an LCD could just about buy you a Spyder to calibrate & profile it with. But that's only worth doing if you intend to print your files.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
