Digital BW, The Print

Louis - the best monitor will be an IP-S type screen. They are about
the best at handling viewing angle problems, for one. I suggest you
take a careful look at NEC monitors.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Louis de Stoutz
<loudest@...> wrote:
>
> Dear community,
> 
> let me shortly leave my lurker's status to ask for some advice on the 
> choice of a 24" LCD Monitor. Since we have similar expectations from
our 
> Hardware, I will probably get more appropriate advice from you than
from 
> a general monitor forum.
> 
> The most important work on my new workstation will of course be B&W 
> photography using Photoshop and Lightroom. But since I also plan to do 
> some HD video editing (Premiere), and my budget is not unlimited, I had 
> taken some interest in the Benq FP241W (or even FP241WZ) for its 
> additional video-oriented inputs and excellent price/performance ratio.
> 
> Upon reflection, I start being worried about insufficient tonal 
> separation in the B&W shadows and have been thinking of an Eizo CE240W 
> instead. But: almost double cost, not at all geared towards video, and 
> the "lowest" member of a, though, superior class (different technology 
> if I'm not mistaken).
> 
> Could anybody with more experience be so kind and comment on this?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Louis
> 
> (from Zurich, Switzerland)
>