I think the colours on the FPW are better (more defined??) sorry, I'm pants at explaining stuff like this, monitors are definitely not my forte, I just use them for displaying stuff! lol
What you're describing sounds like the wider gamut of the U2410. It has a very wide gamut, which means it can produce a wider range of colours. Unfortunately, as many are finding out, this isn't always a good thing because most applications are designed for an sRGB colour space. In plain English what that means is that reds look too red and greens look like a darker more intense green. The U2410's sRGB mode emulates what a standard gamut screen is supposed to look like. Current wide gamut screens have moved beyond what the likes of Microsoft now supports, even in Windows 7.. They need to make the desktop colour managed and have not done so.. so the problem is the software side is not keeping up.
I’d really appreciate some other users of the U2410 to post up what colour settings / contrast / brightness settings they have got and why.
Every monitor is different so their settings won't do you much good. Keep in mind that a new screen is generally going to have a much brighter backlight which will dim more with time (unless it's LED backlit which may fade less) and, even if you got 2 of the same screens, they're rarely going to match especially if they're from different batches and have backlights with different amounts of usage. However you should be able to get the U2410 a lot closer with very little effort..
At the moment I think that the whites are a bit too bright and piercing for my eye, and the white on black text looks a ‘touch’ blurry – might have a fiddle with the contrast later.
Remember Cleartype settings which look good on one screen might make anothers text look blurry. You can try to adjust, but I'd strongly suggest you leave the Sharpness setting at the default 50 and look at your Cleartype settings instead.
I got my new u2410 yesterday, however not only can I not colour match it to my a04 2407 for the life of me, the colours are totally off. Almost to the point of hurting my eyes.
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The problem is, when you try to match one colour, everything else goes out of whack, how white becomes orange/red is beyond me.
In those images there's clearly too much of a red tint. Part of that is likely due to the wide gamut nature of the U2410. Here's a basic thing you can try in custom mode..
Look at an all white image (maximizing an empty folder window will work). Adjust the GAIN setting until it looks a more neutral white to you.. you'll have to play around a bit. DONT touch the hue settings (They can't be tweaked much and will cause banding if you go above 52 or below 48). Turn the Red Saturation down to about 40, and the Magenta down below 45. You should probably turn down green a little too. Finally, if you still notice any tints on greyscale images use the offset controls to tweak this to more neutral greys. Of course you can also calibrate the U2410 too, which should help.
Although the U2410's sRGB and Adobe mode are factory calibrated it's only to a dE of <5, which isn't great, and it's only done for the middle of the screen. Consider its Calibration report little more than a marketing gimmick. You can also enter the U2410's test mode to change the overall values for the Adobe and sRGB modes, but it's perhaps best not to do things this way.
I'll be honest, this screen is utter crap. Even my age old 19" vx922b can produce colours better than this £400 screen.
This is what it means when you get a very wide gamut screen. The only way to avoid it is buy a Calibration device and use colour managed apps (Photoshop is one example).
Does anyone have any tips to get the colours right? Or is it a no hoper and what screen should I look at instead?
Try the above - it should help..
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2010 looks like it might be shaping up to be a good year it you are in the market for a new monitor ( I might even get a companion one
