new monitor

[doctorjames]

Dear all

I had been soldiering on with an old acer 19 inch TFT LCD which I bought about 5 years ago.

I always build computers for myself, rather than buying one off the shelf, and seeing as the monitor wasnt an issue, and i didnt think about it as being a 'performance issue' I didnt see fit to replace it.

As a treat (insert spurious reason for having a treat), I bought myself a new 24 inch widescreen.

I now have it as a dual monitor set up.

This has shown me just *how* bad my old monitor is in reproducing colours accurately (inspite of several calibration methods). The truth is, I had no idea how bad things were (the monitors at work are even worse).

So whats the point of the post?

If you have an oldish monitor, that didnt cost the earth when you got it, you probably *need* a new one. Its certainly the best £150 ive spent on photography in a long while.

[sk66]

So how do you know your new monitor is not the one with the "bad" display?

[doctorjames]

Originally Posted by sk66

So how do you know your new monitor is not the one with the "bad" display?

Its a good question, but the quick and nasty answer is that colours appear lifelike, whites are white, blacks are black and the colours inbetween dont have the tiny tinge of yellow which they do on the old monitor.

Add to this that prints print as displayed perfectly, and that images straight off the camera look lifelike and 'how I remember them'.

At some stage I will need to calibrate it properly, but just out of the box the improvement is very noticeable.