You can get a very useable NEC/Viewsonic Superbrite 19" monitor for $200-$250. The screens flat, the color is good, and it has a 3 year warranty. I've been using the NEC version for about 18 months, and I'm very pleased. I would like a bigger screen, so I will go to the 22 inch version soon. No LCD's in my future for the prime monitor ( I run two monitors on my system). Tom Baker Sam McCandless <samcc@...> wrote: >I too am looking at a monitor purchase with the standard questions, flat vs: >CRT, resolution, etc. (I hope this is not an "off-list" subject) >TNX, >Joe > -----Original Message[of Mark's]-----[snipped] I'm in the same boat as Joe. But without Mark's $400 budget restriction. Only, I suspect, because I'm trying to live with my old computer for a while. And unless it's simply too bulky, I'm also going to try to live with my old monitor - as a Photoshop palette monitor - for a while. It's a 19-inch 4.5-year old Sony GDM F420 CRT and fading fast. I've thought that for images, I'd ideally like to get the Sony Artisan Antonis mentioned. But it's bigger than I need because I haven't room for a table at which to mount and mat and frame prints of images larger than about 11 x 14. So I think my best high-end option is probably EIZO's ColorEdge CG18 LCD. I believe it's only a little small for me. And I think it is probably at least as good as the Artisan after being worked on a bit with GretagMacbeth's Eye-One Display (not Eye-One Photo because I think I'd rather have my printer profiles made for me by CHROMiX.com). Cost including the colorimeter: nearly $2000. And the 21-inch ColorEdge would make it at least several hundred dollars more. Good as the EIZO ColorEdge is, would it reduce the amount of hard proofing enough to pay for itself? Before it wears out in, say, three years (despite it's warranty for five)? I don't see why not given the cost of the papers on which we print. But would a lesser monitor reduce costs proportionately less? Maybe not; the quality of the images the monitors display seems to tend to converge as the monitors are calibrated and profiled. Witness Owen Evans' comments on his $520 22-inch ViewSonic P225f CRT and David Simons' comments on his LaCie. They are still over Mark's $400 budget. But I assume a 19-inch ViewSonic or Samsung or Mitsubishi will get him under the wire if he already has something to calibrate and profile it with. I wish I had one of each and could recommend one. As for me, if I had to buy tonight, I think I'd probably go with X-Rite's MonacoOptix XR colorimeter (instead of the Eye-One Display EIZO programs for) and the big ViewSonic instead of the ColorEdge. I'm sure the ColorEdge is better. But I doubt it's that much better. 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RE: [Digital BW] Monitor purchase questions
2004-03-22 by Tom Baker