IPS panel monitor for editing, any size advice please....

Unfortunately this second 2713HM is going back :(. The backlight bleed is far too distracting in movies and games with dark background. Shame as I love the color contrast and general image quality but Dell's QA really needs sorting..
 
(UPDATE)

Just after i got my new monitor my PC died :(

Well after my PC being dead for two months I finally got it up and running again only to find that my monitor while inactive developed a line on dead pixels!!

I called OCUK who said Dell deal with this directly, I called Dell and the guy was very helpful and said they would dispatch a replacement monitor next day. I was shocked at the level of service i was receiving :) fantastic :) I asked the guy what he meant by a replacement and he said it would be a reconditioned one........... :(

I politely said that wouldn't do, its not fit for purpose as it was bought on June 24th and it had a major fault within two months! All i had to do was provide proof of purchase and he would send out a new monitor...... 4 days later boom its here :)

Moral of the story is it pays to buy quality goods................ sometimes :p
 
Glad it worked out for you, I went through two of them in the end before settling on a Asus instead. One had terrible image retention/ghosting issues. Dell told me the "issues" were "normal" - normal issues... sigh. I asked them why the second unit didn't have these normal issues although that one suffered horribly from bleed.
 
Nexus said:
Aren't the LED backlit ones supposed to be not as good for colour critical work such as photography. I think Dell are calling the wider gamut ones 'Premiere Colour' now.

I've got the 27' inch U2711 which I've owned nearly two years now.
It's great, but yes, it does give off a lot of heat. Its actually quite annoying in a small room at home during summer, especially running another monitor and a tower, quickly gets pretty warm.

Only other downside I have to it is that it sometimes gets lines appearing on the left side of the panel, which you have shake the side of the monitor to get it to stop. I read that this is likely due to poor soldering. I need to send it back to OCUK to be looked at when I've got a break in what I'm working on.
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I use a dell u2711 and a dell u2410 and yes the heat that comes off them at high brightness is quite incredible really.. after a time it really gets warm at the desk, great in winter

both of mine are fine.
 
^^ If you properly calibrate the monitor then it wont be that bright and the heat will go down (and your elec bill), most monitors are way, way too bright and you need to adjust it down to about 1/4 to 1/3rd of the brightness from the bottom.
 
My Dell 24 and 27" are LED backlit and are perfectly fine for colour critical work in LR etc. Calibration deviation over quarterly calibrations don't shift much at all so now I recalibrate once every 6 months to find deviation is maybe 1 or 2%.

My brightness is manually set to ~95cd/m2 which is a bit below the recommended but I like my screens darker and also means less power consumption (Dell's menu shows about 25% power being drawn when in use).

Luminance being that low doesn't mean inaccurate calibrations though, my black point is 0.12cd/m2 which means excellent shadow details and black levels.
 
D.P. said:
^^ If you properly calibrate the monitor then it wont be that bright and the heat will go down (and your elec bill), most monitors are way, way too bright and you need to adjust it down to about 1/4 to 1/3rd of the brightness from the bottom.
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its only really when the sun comes in the windows that i have the brightness up.. not for photo work
 
fozzybear said:
I was going to suggest the Asus PA238Q 23 inch for just over £200 but I see you've already bought another one..
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Agree. The Asus is fantastic for the money. Colour calibrated at the factory. When I got mine it was 99% sRGB

btw, don't forget to factor a colour calibrator into your spend in the near future.
 
I don't rate factory calibrations at all. Unless your source hardware matches that of the factory then your colours will still be different to that of the factory. I've never seen a monitor that's gone under my Lacie BlueEye probe have colour accurate colours out of the box. I've gotten other my Dell screens close to accurate by manually adjusting values with eyes alone but to get them within 1% deviation of 6500k needed colour profiling.

If you change gfx card you may need to recalibrate, if you change gfx drivers you may need to recalibrate again. There are many factors at work here.
 
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