Best Monitor for a Designer
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- MiMo81
Hey guys, im a designer and a developer, currently looking for a large monitor that renders colors well. I know Apple monitors are great, but is there anything else you guys can recommend?
Hopefully something 27inches or 30.
Thanks!
- kaonashi0
"designer and developer"
Makes me think you're a web designer.
In which case you should go out and get the most average, middle-of-the road monitor available.
- vaxorcist0
two monitors!
One great one, one average Dell/HP/whatever...
- Josev0
I'm not sure why a quality monitor matters anymore. Most of the time my clients call me repeatedly saying "why is everything gray-green" because they're typically on some shitty laptop looking at the screen at the wrong angle.
- because if you design in grey/green, things will be even more effed.monNom
- vaxorcist0
you want one good monitor, color calibrated and big
...and one shit monitor, like the guy in Finance's 15 inch $99 model he got on sale and whose colors are always waaaay off, so you know what he's talking about when he calls you and says the colors look strange...
- ********0
DELL 2408WFP the A02 rev
- MiMo810
I personally need a good monitor, if my clients have a shitty monitor, that is not my problem. As a designer I want to make sure i put out a good product and as a developer I want something that wont tire my eyes out like Dell monitors do.
I really like Apple monitors, but they are so overpriced... I was wondering if there are other companies out there that can compete with them.
- vaxorcist0
I loved the NEC I had a few years ago, also LG makes the insides of many other companies monitors. Probably similar price to apple but try : http://about.pricegrabber.com/se…
- duhsign0
I had a samsung that was reasonably priced and I never got any color complaints...
- monNom0
Panel types make a huge difference. Apple gets praised a lot because they use very high quality panels (which cost).
if you see a monitor, find out what sort of panel it has here: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/ (under panel search)
IPS is probably best, and is most expensive. Apple uses these in Cinema display and 24" Imac
PVA/MVA are maybe 2nd best, maybe as good. usually a little chaper.
TN are 6 bit panels, not good for colour.
Then look around the internet for tales of weirdness on that exact model. (eg: a Dell 2407fp is not the same as a Dell 2409WFP).
NEC makes a reasonably priced (less than apple) 30". HP 30" is supposed to be good and HP 2475LP is supposed to be a good value in 24"
- monNom0
my rationale for a quality monitor for web: there will be variation in monitors above and below the mean (some brighter, some dimmer, some redder, some bluer) that you can't control, but if you're at least calibrated into the middle of the them, you can be sure that the colour you are outputting won't have a weird cast built into it.
- vaxorcist0
ColorMunki
I'd rather have a calibrated good monitor than an uncalibrated more expensive monitor. Once you understand calibration, and do it regularily, things are alot less hair-raising.... especially for photographers.
- acescence0
the link i post in every monitor thread...
http://www.flatpanelshd.com/pane…
put the model number in, will tell you the panel type. S-IPS is best for color accuracy. a lot of manufacturers use the same panels but charge different prices.
