On Mar 18, 2004, at 5:59 AM, Michael Wilkinson wrote:
I looked at a 17"CRT monitor on my scanning set up this morning and by comparison it was
fuzzy ,the type around the icons difficult to read without glasses.
You've discovered the hidden expense in moving the LCDs... and its a big one. Once you've used one for even a brief period, any CRT looks bad... very soft by comparison. There's no adding "one" LCD to your shop. You'll be dumping all the CRTs soon after. Even for non critical work, I can't stand to look at the CRTs for any length of time. Its as if I'm wearing dirty glasses. Even the cheapest VGA driven small LCDs are an improvement in this regard.
I installed a 20 inch Cinema Display a few months ago and love it. I set up another workstation for an assistant yesterday with a 17 inch Apple Studio Display as the main monitor and an AOpen 15 inch LCD as the second display (the cheapest one I could find). The 17 inch Apple seems to be a pretty good bargain. Using it is comparable to the res and screen real estate of a 19 inch CRT. However the image quality very close to the larger Cinema displays while the price isn't. I've not tried putting one of these things on a Windows box yet but I've read numerous posts around the internet that indicate that its possible.
Another really nice feature of the LCD displays... they're easy to take on location for critical viewing of tethered shooting. Try hauling a 20 inch CRT to a location shoot.
Bob Smith
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