Digital BW, The Print

Here, from today's MacInTouch.com, is a footnote relevant to my 
contention (below) that Sony's GDM-F520 might be preferred to Sony's 
Artisan Color Reference System (GDM-C520K). Now I'm not so sure: I 
hadn't realized that Karl Lang was involved with the Artisan.

Sam


>Dave Dahlberg followed up on a problem with Sony's high-end Artisan display:
>
>Sony has fixed the Artisan's $1,800 calibrated display's USB issues 
>under Mac OS 9 (unplug 2 USB cables, reboot, plug in cables, rerun 
>software, hope for no errors). The updater is at:[GDM-Cxxx Display 
>Support]
>  Incidentally, your pre-press readers may be interested to know 
>that this monitor was architected by Karl Lang, formerly the 
>architect at Radius who designed the Industry Standard Pressview / 
>Colormatch reference system for pre-press. He's brought his years of 
>calibration expertise to the Artisan and it shows.
>  This is not some puck attempt at calibration of any monitor. The 
>software directly controls the video circuitry of the display, 
>including blacks, like a $5,000 Barco, and supports the different 
>colorspaces of D50 (print), D65 (photo) and Web. I replaced a 
>Pressview and couldn't be happier (especially with the USB bugs 
>fixed).



>I don't disagree with Robert about this:
>
>At 7:12 PM -0800 1/31/03, Robert Morrison wrote:
> >The move from 24 to 22 is nothing compared to moving to an LCD with respect
> >to sharpness...have you seen a high end CRT next to a high end LCD display?
> >They are sitting in front of me...and I can tell you there is no comparison
> >with regards to sharpness.
>
>but I wasn't trying in the post quoted below to argue about that.
>What I was trying to argue is that the Sony "Artisan Color Reference
>System" (GDM-C520K) has some stiff in-house competition from Sony's
>other high-end CRT, the GDM-F520.
>
>This is irrelevant, of course, unless you think you might need or
>want a CRT. I don't, particularly, but then I also don't want to have
>to replace my video card, add an adapter, and worry about OS9
>compatibility issues. And I do want to be able to use my next monitor
>with the notebook I'd get to use with a digital camera. But that
>notebook would I think be the 12-inch PowerBook, and it's
>incompatible with the Apple (LCD) Cinema Displays. So ... :
>
>At 2:47 PM -0800 1/31/03, Sam A. McCandless wrote:
> >I'm thinking hard about getting one of the new Sony Artisan
> >(GDM-C520K) monitors, but I also think Sony has a strong in-house
> >competitor in the GDM-F520 (no "K"). It's not new; it's
> >second-generation. It's sharper (22mm vs 24mm dot pitch), removing
> >some of the advantage the LCDs have in that regard. Some of us
> >already have a way to profile it so don't need that feature on the
> >Artisan and don't know how good it is anyway. Also, the no-K F520 has
> >BNC connectors as well as HD15, its accessories are more extensive,
> >and it's $100 less.
> >[snip]
> >
> >Sam
> >
> >Sam McCandless         samcc@...