... in the PC world?

Thank you!

I use this...just awesome...

http://www.eizoglobal.com/products/coloredge/cg277/index.html

Cheers

Cris

Thank you Cris.

Wow (for features and price!).

The Eizo Coloredge monitors are damn nice, but not cheap. They and the NEC Spectraview ones are pretty much the defacto standard for colour accuracy in photo work, assuming you can afford any of them!

I saw the new 31 inch 4096x2160 Eizo one at the NEC photo show a few weeks ago, that one is incredible, but it's even more expensive, at around £4k.

You can, of course, colour calibrate most decent monitors these days and get very good results, but the ones designed for colour accuracy will generally always produce better results.

pca

The self calibration of that particular model is what sold it to me, works amazingly well and means now the monitor is set to my required calibration it just looks after itself. In my game that is worth the money alone.

Cheers

Cris

They were 500 quid off at the photo show. A friend I went with bought three of them! He felt much the same.

pca

The CX271 is about half the retail price of the CG277 over here, and according to the EIZO site is identical, feature for feature.

I wonder what the differences are that result in that huge difference in pricing?

For what it's worth, Apple Cinema displays, despite being quite old now (e.g., having a USB2 hub, not USB3) have very good corner-to-corner color quality. Out of the box, Apple gets you 99% of the way there, which for anything short of critical color proofing is really all you need.

Other monitors seem to vary a lot. I splurged on the Sharp 32" 4K monitor, whose price seems to be on a nice downward trajectory, but it's still not cheap. An external calibrator is mandatory for this thing, and there are definitely corner-to-corner brightness shifts of the sort that Eizo explicitly says they correct for. But, oh so many beautiful pixels! And even for my own photographic purposes, the not-quite-perfect is still entirely good enough.

I suppose the key question you should ask yourself is whether you want to do all the other things that tend to go with professional pre-press, like having specific-colored reference lights for your environment and blocking out that messy daylight which may shift in color temperature over the course of the day.

As an amateur photographer at most, I am afraid I can't justify spending THAT much money. I thought prices had gone down more, over the years, but I see that's not the case.

I would like to get a 4K monitor, but I'll have to opt for some unit at a lower price point. I am sure the Sharp PN-K321 you linked would be more than enough for me, but that's still quite expensive.

I think in the application being talked about here going for the cheaper model makes much more sense.

But, for me, it makes sense to have a monitor like this. It gives me a known calibrated constant to work from, and while you can argue you get the same result from an external device it's nothing like as good as the Eizo solution.

I've tried for years to get colour calibration right, it took me literally minutes with the CG277. I've done test prints, looked at my images on other monitors and have been nothing but impressed with it. One less thing to worry about in my professional life.

Not a fan of Apple monitors for photo editing, always makes my images look far better than they are, so when you pass a picture over to a client you can't be sure they are seeing it at it's best.

Cheers

Cris

There also is a touch version of the Sharp one, which I'd love to have. Price almost doubles, though, so, never mind.