Forum: Photography


Subject: monitors

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


Tanchelyn posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 5:51 PM

When using a digital camera, you need a computer. When using a film camera and you want to show your works on the internet, you need a scanner/computer.

So I was wondering about your monitors. Monitors can make a lot of difference. Some people swear by crt, some argue that tft is nowadays at least as good. Some simply use the monityor that came with their computer.

Cheaper tft's are known to show lots of difference when you move your head only a few inches (10cm). Other tft's can show full adobe rgb...and get very impressive blacks.

So do you care about the quality of your monitor? Do you calibrate it? If you do: with what? Hardware?
Do you use two monitors, ora single one? Which size?
etc etc

To be the first to answer my own questions: I now use a Viewsonic VP930 tft which is 19inch and 1280x1024 pixels. When I bought it, it was a good medium quality monitor with good blacks, and the viewing angle is ok because of the p-mva panel.
I'd love to get a larger monitor (24inch) one day, but the ones I like are quite expensive.
I do care about good colour rendering (within limits) and use the spider3pro hardware calibration. I print with a Canon Pro9000.

There are no Borg. All resistance is fertile.