DELL Widescreens
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- digdre0
I have a samsung. pretty good one
- digdre0
I have a samsung. pretty good one
- akrokdesign0
of course, colors are imported. still. you better have a budget for it. and if you don't. then roll with dell. or apple. :-)
- MakeBelieve0
Dell 2408's are issue-ridden mainly to do with lack of quality control.
If you go for Dell's, stick to Dell 3008wfp Rev A02 (latest revision), otherwise you could be in for many returns.Wide Gamut - watch out for this, as its becoming standard on many monitors, you get excellent colour, but only properly used by softwares like PS and Firefox (colour-manage apps). Otherwise it will look all oversaturated and bright.
Also you MUST calibrate the Dell monitors as they usualy are rubbish at factory settings, but after calib are very good.
Or, go for the NEC's, LACIE's or EIZO's as you can expect good quality from them.
- before all screen gone flat. i worked on LACIE, really nice. excellent color. but they cost a hell of a lot.akrokdesign
- akrokdesign0
look, does it really matter. everyone who will see your "color corrected" stuff has fucked up screens any way. lol.
- LOL, so true. I had a client who kept emailing me about the gray's that I had chosen for the layout. I finally went to her office and changed the tilt of her laptop screen.Josev
- office and changed the tilt of her laptop screen.Josev
- hah. nice one.akrokdesign
- What about thsoe who work with printed matter or photographers?MakeBelieve
- (there were no "gray's" in the layout)Josev
- put them all in a rocket and send the out of space. lol.akrokdesign
- rafalski0
I have two 2007WFP, they're terrific. The 2008WFP isn't though, it has a TN panel :(
I got a 24" 2408WFP and to my surprise, returned it. Oversaturated colors I couldn't control and strangely, it was too big.
- Josev0
I'm currently looking at:
- LaCie 526 or 324
- NEC LCD2490WUXI-BKIf I can come up with the cash I would buy something from EIZO:
http://www.eizo.com/products/gra…
- OBBTKN0
wfp2007 here... superb and consistent colors. No need for a bigger screen (i do big photo retouching and illus using wacom)
- trooperbill0
the newer ones are pertty good got better colour and contrast than dells of the past... mines a big ol 22 inch without gloss and its v nice worked 2 years without a hitch, the older 15 and 17 models suck! i use them at work
- Ravdyk0
I am behind mine right now. And I can say it rocks!
- rafalski0
It's easy to compare iMac 20" and a 24" at an Apple store. The 20" is a TN panel, it has lower color accuracy and it changes color as you change viewing angle to a much bigger extent the 24" does.
- kenchie10
2208WFP 22"
- kenchie10
I got one and it had a terrible colour cast on it, so I sent it straight back. I now have a Sumsung.
- doctor0
Apparently there are different views on what 'decent' implies. The CNET test models didn't have S-IPS panels, for instance.
- rafalski0
Last time I checked, Dell didn't do decent 20" anymore and only one 24" model, the 2408WFP. It was some half a year ago though.
- doctor0
So it seems safe to go with Dell...
- PonyBoy0
they're just as good as the Apple cinema's... some even say 'better'... I run one at the moment and will be adding a second shortly...
cnet has a good read on the two (dell & apple)...
dell:
http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-moni…apple:
http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-moni…the Dell wins via the editor review and is tied in a consumer review...
... so I settled with price and got my 24" dell refurbed and saved another $200... I'm sure you could get a refurbished Cinema display pretty cheap too...- apple wins in consumer review... sorry... 1/2 star - regardless - both are really good - dell is just cheaperPonyBoy
- doctor0
TN panels are no good?
- acescence0
enter the model number, tells you the panel inside. look for S-IPS for graphics..