Digital BW, The Print

Congratulations, Ellen, on holding onto your G3 for so long. Will you 
also be hooking it up to your new display? When I get a new computer, 
I hope to use my old G4 to back up to and as a scan and print server. 
But ahead of that I need a new monitor too, for images.

I already have a $200 17-inch Dell (Samsung) CRT to use as a "palette 
monitor" in Photoshop. Because I cannot matte and frame larger than 
16x20 in my small, at-home print "shop", I print no larger than 11x14 
or 14x11. As a result, using a separate palette monitor might let me 
use a 1280x1024 19-inch LCD image monitor to see full-size what I 
will print. Even in portrait orientation, i.e., 11x14 rather than 
14x11. But only if the 19" image monitor pivots.

For LCD's, pivoting/rotating has become commonplace except at Apple. 
So I'd look both at Samsung and at Eizo LCD's. I think the Samsung's 
are a great value and that the Eizo's are great period. I don't know 
whether either will pivot/rotate with a video card Apple offers for 
your new G5. I'm hoping that any video card robust enough to protect 
the Aperture option will support pivoting/rotating a display, but I 
don't know that.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
--
Sam


At 2:58 AM +0000 12/24/05, erutchick2002 wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm upgrading my equipment with a Mac G5, after working on an
>old G3 for the past 8 years, and am looking for input on a monitor
>choice.
>
>I understand that CRT choices are dwindling, and that the
>higher-end LCDs are now comparable to CRTs in terms of
>gamut and shadow detail.
>
>I was considering a refurbished Apple 23" Cinema, but for that
>investment want to be comfortable that I'm choosing well. Any
>guidance that the old hands on this group might offer would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Ellen Rutchick