Monitor choice considering photography

413x · 13 Feb 2020 at 11:02

I'm in the market for a new monitor

Mines breaking (half panel goes green often ) and new desk needs a new monitor

Ill be coming from a u2711 (great monitor)

I'm looking at a uw panel (34in, 3440*1440)

I'm looking at
AW3418DW (slight skew to games)
U3419w (skew to photography)

I'm trading refresh rate for colour accuracy I believe

I'm no pro, but I don't really know how much I'll lose going for the AW?
I'm also not a pro gamer.

Anyone use a similar panel for productivity?

Spleen Sauce · 13 Feb 2020 at 13:51

I have the LG UltraWide 34UM88C - its a couple of years old now so likely been refreshed a few times, but with a decent calibrator I've got excellent results from it. Heavy Lightroom Classic and Capture One use for large prints.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Feb 2020 at 16:27

I would make sure you have access to a colorimeter,so you can calibrate the monitor. Some monitors also come with calibration reports from the factory - my Dell UP2516D had one.

sHo0sH · 13 Feb 2020 at 16:41

I got the Viewsonic VP3481 - its great for the money and designed with colour accuracy in mind. I think I paid about £550 for it from here a few months ago. Is 3440X1440 and 100hz and 300 nits 'HDR'

Buddy · 15 Feb 2020 at 00:15

I've got the U3415W. Would highly recommend. Came with a calibration report. Also do some light 60hz gaming.

One thing I liked about it was even with the stand its quite slim. Some of the ultrawide come with huge stands.

And · 15 Feb 2020 at 06:44

About six months ago I went the other way from UW 3440x1440 (LG 34UM95) to 27" 4k (Benq SW271).

Spleen Sauce · 15 Feb 2020 at 09:42

And said:
About six months ago I went the other way from UW 3440x1440 (LG 34UM95) to 27" 4k (Benq SW271).

Curious to know, how do you find it? I've been tempted by an LG 5K display, which is much cheaper than the 5K ultrawide that I'd be tempted to upgrade to at some point.

And · 15 Feb 2020 at 11:01

@Spleen Sauce

Menus can be small in some apps, Camera Raw especially, but I've got used to it. Nice to work on - in sRGB images look great with fantastic detail. It was expensive and I need to pick up a calibration device.

The wife's a graphic designer and has the newest 5K iMac (it is a lovely display and OSX plays ball with scaling much better than Win10) which AFAIK is the same 27" LG in terms of colour spec.

pc-guy · 21 Feb 2020 at 00:07

Can’t advise on with panel to buy as I myself has been out of the loop for years. But I am sure there are plenty IPS panels nowadays can have wide garmut

I used to use TFT central for information. But probably most the notable brands like dell, viewsonic, etc are all capable of producing colour accurate panels. Brightness is a consideration if you are editing against light ie there is glare (direct or glancing)

Calibration report is nice to have but I seriously doubt that they would have done it on every one of the mass produced monitor. Maybe with the panel still on assembly line but definitely not testing when it is fully assembled and ready to be shipped. Also monitor should be calibrated regularly if you are doing colour critical work

last thing that is quite important is a panel that supports 10bit colour natively and a gfx that can do it also. Obviously the latter is limited to quadro cards. No one likes to edit photo and seeing those damn banding!

And · 21 Feb 2020 at 22:03

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