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I’m about to buy a new monitor and have been looking at LCD’s. Can anyone give me some input based on your experience? TIA
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Well how urgent is it?
Basically it’s such that some new monitor models with 10 – 12 LUTs are about to be marketed that don’t cost you an arm and a leg.
In short though yes, it works and esp. EIZO monitors are rather good, but if you want something professional you’re in with about $4000+ here (I’m living in Europe and you need to take things like VAT into account).
Secondly you’d hardware calibrate your monitor as software solutions are guesswork at best and catastrophe at worst.
Thirdly you’d get you a daylight lamp and prefer to work with shutters closed.
Last if you intend to print yourself you’d think about hardware calibration of your printer and papers, too. Solutions for that are rather expensive, though.
The prize of high quality LCDs may even go down "soon" as the first LED monitors are not really far away anymore and that is where it may be worth waiting another 6 months or so.
Personally I use a calibrated on a regular basis LCD by the way and my scanner gets calibrated before each session, too and with available ICC profiles for the papers I prefer (I don’t print myself) and a bit of learning what to think of get the results I want.
Quite happy with his LCD,
Juergen
