Digital BW, The Print

"Stephen Kobrin"  wrote:
 > Can anyone recommend a flat screen monitor that would be statisfactory 
> for working with images -- i.e., using Photoshop.  I live in a very 
> small house and a flat screen would really free up some space.

Below is a copy and paste of my "review" on Samsung's 213T I wrote a few months ago. I 
have the 213T and also Dell's 1905FP 19in Digital LCD as a pallete monitor and I will say 
the Dell gives the 213T a run for it's money and is equal in perfomance....the Dell is made 
by Samsung so it only makes sense that performance is close! Actually the Dell is on sale 
for $260.00 but sale ends tonight. http://www.techbargains.com/dellcoupons.cfm 
Eventhough the sale ends tonight it will go on sale again in a few weeks, so keep your 
eyes' peeled. 

Also I will say it might be worth getting two Dell's 1905FP and using them in  dual setup, 
than getting one Samsung 213T...it might be cheaper too!

Anyway here's my review of the 213T:

The monitor is really nice. Is it an Ezio...no but for $650.00 or so it's really worth the price 
and more. Is it perfect? No but it comes close!
 
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10354201&loc=101&sp=1
 
A client of mine has a dual 213T setup on his G5. Calibrated with an Eye-One Display and 
Chromix profiles for his Epson 4000 and 2200 output is right on most of the time.
 
When I first installed my 213T it was running through the VGA output as that was my only 
option as my main card only has VGA and Apple's ADC connector that does not work with 
the 213T's DVI connector.
 
Yesterday I ran the 213T through my palette's monitor card - an old ATI Mac 7000 card - 
that has both VGA/DVI connectors. Wow...what a difference the digital connection 
made...smooth gray scale and accurate color.
 
Viewing a one-hundred patch grayscale displays as very neutral...is it dead neutral on all 
patches...no...but if there is a color shift it's so subtle that most will not be aware of this. 
I've been in photography for about 30 years and I'm very sensitive to color...I can see color 
differences less than .025CC (that's color correction filters in the olden days.) What I see is 
differences less than that and only if I stare at it long enough and have a long debate 
about it with myself.
 
Black Point is Black for sure. The Eye-One does a nice job calibrating as I can see the 
differences between the 100% and 99%...it's very subtle.
 
The overall grayscale seems a little warm to me - a touch towards yellow - but I feel the 
Eye-One could be making it so. I will say I like my grayscales on the cool side towards 
blue, so I think this is more a personal preference.
 
There is no color banding on gray gradients whatsoever.
 
The 100% white point is white with no color shift that I can see.
 
As a Mac user I have two options that could improve the display a touch further:
 
Install an ADC/DVI adapter to run the monitor off my main card - NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 
with 64 MB of ram or buy a new card. I feel my old ATI 7000 Mac card with 32 MB of Ram 
is doing an admirable job but when I move windows around the movement is a little 
choppy. And I'm sure with newer cards color processing is more sophisticated and 
improved than cards made four years ago.