Ah, very interesting, Doug! It so happens my husband has a tv set-up as his monitor. He bought a Toshiba 32RV525RZ last year -- he likes the wide screen for his work. It's an LCD panel... though I haven't been able to figure out exactly which type. Only a year old, but already discontinued... the new 40" model appears to have an S-PVA panel...
I had dismissed his tv/monitor out of hand, as just a dumb television, good enough for bit-twiddling, but not for my -ahem - art. ;) Now, I'm having a second look... Thanks for the suggestion. -c On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Doug Franklin <jehosep...@mindspring.com> wrote: > On 2010-10-02 10:56, Christine Nielsen wrote: > >> I've decided to quit hunching over my laptop& get a real monitor, to >> be properly calibrated, just like all the cool kids have. Not only >> are my back& eyes killing me, but I think I would stand a better >> chance of getting some images out of my hard drive and onto paper if I >> could get a reliable handle on the color management thing. > > Don't overlook televisions. I have a HP LP2475w 24" 1920 x 1200 IPS monitor > for photo work and a couple of TFTs for regular work on my computers. The > HP cost me about US$ 600 a year or so ago. They've since replaced it with > another model (I can't remember what it is) that's about US$ 400 shipped. > They're excellent monitors with good gamut. /Much/ better than the TFT > monitors for photo work. > > Then a few months ago I "inherited" a home theater PC that a friend was > trying to build and having trouble with. I got it working and hooked it up > to my main A/V system. It's driving a run-of-the-mill 40" LCD TV and the > colors are *awesome*. The blacks, for example, are far deeper than even on > the HP, and the overall gamut seems to be larger. That said, I haven't > calibrated it yet. > > But, take a look at some of the LCD TVs before settling on a $1000 monitor. > If my TV is any guide, you can get great performance for photos at much > lower price points in TVs than in computer monitors. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
