Gradient issue with BenQ G2420HDBL monitor - anyone else?

Rikki

Rikki

Rikki

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Hey folks,

I bought a pair of these monitors about a month ago after everyone saying how amazing they are, but as soon as I started to use them in Photoshop I could see issues with the colour selector and a really bad banding issue in the gradients :

BenQ monitor:
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Dell 19" 1907 which is about 4 years old:
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Anyone had this kind of issue? Not seen anyone report on it before so Im a bit confused :S

Many thanks,

Rik
 
Only when I enable senseye do colours have issues (the pallette is greatly reduced - most shades of purple look the same).

On normal mode the colours are fine and are better than the other panels I've seen.

There is some banding on certain gradients - but its a large TN panel and I'm unaware of any TN panels that don't display banding to a certain degree.

If image editing is your main thing then you should get IPS panel.
 
I haven't used the G2420HDBL unfortunately, but I'm currently reviewing the BenQ V920. It has an LED backlight and aside from the smaller screen size and lower resolution it is probably a fairly similar panel. I have noticed pretty bad dithering (both temporal and static) as well as some banding issues.

It is easy for people to dismiss it as a "TN issue", but this degree of dithering is far greater than on the XL2370 we tested previously (LED backlit Samsung). It could partly be due to the algorithm that Samsung uses being superior, but I'd really have to test the G2420 to be sure.
 
Im sure the aging Dell 19" is a TN panel, but Ive never seen anything quite as bad as this for years. Esp a monitor that gets an almost religous following on here.
 
How do I turn on / off Senseye? All I can see in the menus is "Senseeye demo : off"

Btw, 3 days later I get this from benq:

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Dear Rick,

Please try resetting all settings to default


Kind regards


Scott



Scott Ratcliffe
BenQ Europe
http://benq.co.uk


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Awesome!
 
The senseye settings are, in my opinion, terrible. You need to set it to 'standard' mode to turn 'off' senseye. BenQ senseye is just the name given to the presets, like MagicBright for Samsung monitors.
 
Yes, that crap was looked at for 3 seconds and once my vision returned, immediately disabled.

Sometimes I think Im the only one not wearing rose tinted BenQ glasses - me and you now of course :)
 
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