OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-05-01 Thread Hedley Finger
Mike: > At one time, LCDs were not supposed to be good enough for this purpose, but > that seems to have changed. Is anyone still selling CRTs for this purpose, > or are LCDs by LaCie, Eizo, and others the only options now? I'm not against > LCDs-- and would actually prefer one, if not

OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-05-01 Thread Hedley Finger
Sorry everybody. The point I was trying to make that LCD/LED monitors have "individual LED backlights for each pixel". Because the LED is already a coloured primary light source of greater purity than a fluoro backlight + colour filter can produce, you get a greater gamut. And, because the

OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-04-30 Thread Mike Wickham
Hi, all, I recently had the fun experience of having lightning strike. It blew out the phone and cable lines, and took out computers, all the network boxes, TVs, and lots of other electronic equipment. Some jacks were blown out of the walls and even knobs got blown off of a clothes dryer! One

Re: OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-04-30 Thread Scott Prentice
I can't comment on the color-correctness of it .. but I recently bought a refurbished (by Apple) 20 Cinema Display, and *love* it. They go for $499 (free shipping) .. and come up from time to time on the Apple website. I needed to get a new display adapter that supported DVI (Radeon 9500 I

OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-04-30 Thread Mike Wickham
Hi, all, I recently had the fun experience of having lightning strike. It blew out the phone and cable lines, and took out computers, all the network boxes, TVs, and lots of other electronic equipment. Some jacks were blown out of the walls and even knobs got blown off of a clothes dryer! One

OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-04-30 Thread Art Campbell
I've been shopping too, although just fro general upgrade because my CRTs are near the end of their lives. The key thing to look for is an LCD that supports a wide color space -- as close to AdobeRGB (assuming that's your default) as possible. And also look at the menu controls -- not all LEDs

OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-04-30 Thread Scott Prentice
I can't comment on the color-correctness of it .. but I recently bought a "refurbished" (by Apple) 20" Cinema Display, and *love* it. They go for $499 (free shipping) .. and come up from time to time on the Apple website. I needed to get a new display adapter that supported DVI (Radeon 9500 I