Forum: Photography


Subject: monitors

Tanchelyn opened this issue on Oct 06, 2008 · 7 posts


Drea71 posted Wed, 08 October 2008 at 6:58 AM

Funny that this topic's coming up right now.
I went to the store with my dad yesterday who was looking for a new TFT-monitor. He's also into photography and in one shop he was told that all the TFT-monitors they had there (which were quite a lot) were not really suitable, because they all could cause color-problems. He then bought one in another shop because it was on sale and his old one was a really old tft anyways so the new one just had to be better. But that shop assistant's comment just made me feel that, when my old CRT broke down a few years ago the decision to buy a new CRT (Philips 109 E5)instead of a TFT was the right decision unless I would have wanted to spent a fortune... What really makes me think though is the fact, that you hardly find any CRTs in the shops any more so I really hope mine will "live" for many  more years... I bought my laptop in January (which I normaly use with an extra-keyboard and the CRT) and even though I tried to find one with a good monitor (even took some of my images to the store to test the quality) I still see huge differences between the monitors. Of course it always depends on the surrounding light and stuff, but even though it would sometimes be nicer to have it in the living room I rather leave it in the "office" with the CRT attached.