I've seen a lot of monitors, good and bad. For general use, a good LCD panel that's crisp, has a decent response time and a contrast ratio over 600:1 is significantly better (and easier on the eyes) than any CRT.
For editing, the CRT's still a bit better (better blacks, higher resolutions), but not enough to beat the LCD for all-round use. Only way I'd run a CRT now is on a dedicated editing box that does nothing else. As to text, you're still getting similar amounts of text on the screen as you can run smaller fonts on a lower-res display. It's the physical size of the font that matters to readability, and that places a hard limit on how small the font can get onscreen (you can get more text on a higher res display but you risk eyestrain. As someone who gets payed to look at a display for 8+ hours a day, I can't risk that). -Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > if your saying your 1280x800 lcd screen > looks better than any CRT running at > 1600x1200 fine ( have you seen them all?) , but there is no way > it can display nearly as much information > like text etc. you need the pixels to do > that...and you dont have nearly as many to work with.. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Adam Maas > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:15 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: POLL - Computer Screen Size & Resolution > > > 1. 15.4" 16:10 Laptop screen (replaced my 21" CRT running at 1856x1392, > miss teh resolution, but the LCD is far more crisp, which makes up for a > > lot. Looks way better than any 19" CRT running at 1600x1200) > 2. 1280x800 (max res) > 3. 1000x700 or so > 4. 800-1000 horizontal, 5-700 vertical > 5. yes > > -Adam > > > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> Since there has been a rather interesting and lively discussion in a >> couple of other threads discussing computer screen size and >> resolution, it may be time to poll the topic again. >> >> 1) What size screen do you use >> >> 2) What resolution do you prefer? >> >> 3) What's the largest size image that you can see on your screen >> without undue scrolling? This would have to take into consideration >> real estate eaten up by the browser. >> >> 4) What minimum/maximum size images do you prefer to look at? >> >> 5) If you had to scroll to see an entire image, would you be less >> inclined to view additional images from that poster? >> >> >> Shel >> >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
