IPS Monitors - I'm colour blind.. :D

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Hey,

Just forked out over £400 for two IPS monitors to find out im colour blind. Has this just been a complete waste of money or are there other perks to IPS which is worth keeping them for?

Tempted to try and get my money back.
 
Out of interest. How did you 'find out' you were colour blind after purchasing the monitors? Were these two things linked in any way or just a coincidental chain of events? Presumably you were using a different 'lesser' monitor previously or have done so in the past and should be able to tell for yourself whether your IPS monitors offer a better experience than your previous ones.

Far be it from us to tell you what is good for you - only you know what you see. And 'colour blind' is quite broad. In what sense is it so?
 
the days of one panel technology offering better colour reproduction than another are basically over and all technologies are capable of providing accurate colours nowadays. obviously in many cases yo'd need to calibrate correctly to achieve reliable colours

what IPS will offer you though (and the reason why it's the choice in most pro-grade monitors for colour work) are the widest viewing angles available out of the main technologies (TN Film, IPS, MVA, PVA). There is less gamma shift from an angle, and it's also free of the off-centre contrast shift you will see fromm VA panels. so in that sense, it's probably still the best choice for photo / colour work :)
 
PCM2 said:
Out of interest. How did you 'find out' you were colour blind after purchasing the monitors? Were these two things linked in any way or just a coincidental chain of events? Presumably you were using a different 'lesser' monitor previously or have done so in the past and should be able to tell for yourself whether your IPS monitors offer a better experience than your previous ones.

Far be it from us to tell you what is good for you - only you know what you see. And 'colour blind' is quite broad. In what sense is it so?
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If im being perfectly honest, I've known I am colour blind for quite a while (just diddnt want to look like an idiot:D) - it just never crossed my mind when I was researching IPS as I forgot about it really. It doesnt effect me majorly, by colour blind I just sometimes mix up dark blue with purple etc.

Baddass said:
the days of one panel technology offering better colour reproduction than another are basically over and all technologies are capable of providing accurate colours nowadays. obviously in many cases yo'd need to calibrate correctly to achieve reliable colours

what IPS will offer you though (and the reason why it's the choice in most pro-grade monitors for colour work) are the widest viewing angles available out of the main technologies (TN Film, IPS, MVA, PVA). There is less gamma shift from an angle, and it's also free of the off-centre contrast shift you will see fromm VA panels. so in that sense, it's probably still the best choice for photo / colour work :)
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Thanks, they will be delivered some time today - hopefully I wont regret it.
 
I think the quality of the panel is still worth it - and if you're paying that amount for a decent monitor, it's still going to be more enjoyable than a lower spec cheaper one. Regardless of a bit of colour blindness, I'd still say games and films are going to look better :)
 
I think you'll love the monitors and at £200 a piece it's pretty much win-win. What model are they?
 
choconutjoe said:
The best thing about IPS monitors in my experience is the black depth, which I guess is the same even if you're colourblind :)
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Contrast has traditionally been a particular weakness of IPS monitors. Sometimes this is counteracted slightly by comparisons that may be drawn between some cheap and poorly made TN-panel monitors and much better built and expensive IPS monitors. The modern IPS monitor has actually made good progress as far as 'black depth' goes (at least, if you consider a value given to you by a colorimeter in a small square in the centre of the screen) and in the best cases sometimes reaches around the 1000:1 stated contrast ratio (if you're all about the figures). The commonly mentioned 'IPS glow' and potentially poor luminance uniformity plague a large number of IPS panel monitors today and with the drive to bring down cost the latter issue is quite widespread. Overall the apparent lack of true-looking black is a common complaint amongst IPS monitor users and reviewers.

Not to take anything away from the visual benefits the OP will no doubt notice from his IPS monitors, but I just had to correct the misinformation regarding black depth. :)
 
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lolage said:
Hey,

Just forked out over £400 for two IPS monitors to find out im colour blind. Has this just been a complete waste of money or are there other perks to IPS which is worth keeping them for?

Tempted to try and get my money back.
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thats a bit odd :O try get your money back within the 28 days of purchase right?
 
I dont think mixing up dark blue and purple counts as colour blind, theyre pretty close.
Try seeing in almost black and white if you're out in the sun too long, thats a pain in the butt.
 
choconutjoe said:
The best thing about IPS monitors in my experience is the black depth, which I guess is the same even if you're colourblind :)
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Some TNs have pretty nice blacks these days - Samsung 2233RZ (6bit TN) when properly calibrated has very accurate colors (if your fairly dead on to it) and really deep gorgeous blacks - shame you can see the dithering if you look for it tho.
 
Rroff said:
Some TNs have pretty nice blacks these days - Samsung 2233RZ (6bit TN) when properly calibrated has very accurate colors (if your fairly dead on to it) and really deep gorgeous blacks - shame you can see the dithering if you look for it tho.
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Unfortunately whilst a TN may be able to create reasonably accurate colours in a pretty much perfectly perpendicular point sample from the centre of the screen (via colorimeter) just the difference in angle from the bottom of screen to the top (and left to right) from your eyes negates any accuracy reported by the instrument.

The raw numbers from most calibration packages are a pretty poor indicator of how accurate a monitor is in truth (suitability for work requiring accuracy would probably be a better way of wording it). With enough tweaking you can get almost anything to give you a good-ish result when measured once in the centre of the screen with few enough target samples. It's reproducing those results across the entire panel and smoothly across the entire colour gamut that's tricky. I could probably get a 2233RZ to return the same average DeltaE as an Eizo CG221, but it wouldn't be as accurate or remotely comparable for image work.
 
Oh I wouldn't use it for image editing/anything that needed color accuracy, but for casual use it can look decent especially the depth of the blacks and its not an IPS panel.
 
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