Forum: Photography


Subject: Monitors LCD or CRT?!?!?

L8RDAZE opened this issue on Mar 14, 2006 ยท 35 posts


Misha883 posted Thu, 16 March 2006 at 8:34 AM

Make sure whatever you do get allows you to adjust gamma and color balance. Some of the early inexpensive LCD screens did not, (or, there were so many strange interactions between the screen, video card, windows, photoshop, and profiles, that "practically" it was impossible to adjust things!). I suspect this has been solved for the relatively high-end screens mentioned above. All color is illusion, Grasshopper. Tune your own system to make prints the way you like them. If you are in a business, and using commercial printers, you already know the rules (or you have a boss to tell them to you). I've found that the LCD on my laptop is a LOT brighter than my CRT. [In my Gallery, most of the Malaysia series are off of the laptop, and some now look way too dark on my desk. I had to do a lot of re-adjustment to get correct prints. This isn't a limitation of either technology; just a need to get the workflow consistant.] The reality is, if you publish to the Web, every viewers' monitor will be different. [For the quarterly banner contest, I once submitted an entry that had gamma, brightness, and color patches so at least everyone in the Forum would be adjusted closely. It lost. ] Like Cyn, I generally use Viewsonic CRT's. I built a BIG desk out of a couple sheets of 4X8 plywood. I curse the weight on the rare occasions I need to move them. But they work, and are now quite a bargain.