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Hi John, well, I did not explain myself well. I certainly did not pay
$2k for this monitor, I think only around $350 on sale. I meant it was
hard to swallow the idea of spending that much on a really good one,
which seems to be the prices, on something not quite as good as my old
CRTs.
I'm having trouble with the evolution in general, from CRTs, and was
wondering if my experiences were unique.

The settings on this thing right now are-
Contrast- 71
Brightness- 100
Color tone- Warm1
gamma- -0.1
color weakness custom2

lord knows what much of that means or how I even arrived at it. There
must be some kind of law that new products must not adhere to excepted
industry wide and well known settings nomenclature. Color temp? Why
have that?
It's probably just not a very good monitor, and will get relegated to
a lesser box.
Still, it doesn't make me feel real comfortable about the move to LCDs
in general...
Tyler


--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "John Vitollo" <jvlist@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" <trboley@>
wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, the transition to this has not been good, and of course I read
> > elsewhere LCDs seem to be letting a lot of people down. I'm using
> > Spyder2Pro, and EyeOne photo and neither seem to really be able to get
> > this thing in line. I have to say the on screen controls make no sense
> > whatsoever, so that's a problem all it's own.
> > 
> > Anyway, the biggest problem for critical work is that neutrals
> > crossover all over the place, particularly in shadows......
> 
> No it's not OT at all...
> 
> Funny I had some odd behaviors with my Samsung 213T (not 214T) -
like saturated colored 
> shadows. The 213T died a while ago, cat clawed it, and at that time
I used the EyeOne, only had 
> the Spyder CRT at the time, the EyeOne helped for the most
part...but wasn't too impressed 
> with the EyeOne performance. My memory is foggy but I remember I
always shook my head at 
> the screwy Samsung monitor interface...that could be where it's
messing up.
> 
> If I remember correctly Steve M. has the 213T...has he been able to
give you any insight with the 
> Samsung interface?
> 
> You could just have a bad monitor. How does the default Samsung
monitor profile look?
> 
> What are your settings for gamma, brightness and color temp?
> 
> If you spent $2000.US for the Samsung...I probably would have
purchased an Apple monitor or 
> NEC instead.
> 
> Best,
> 
> John
>