Which monitor would you recommend for Photoshop/Video & Gaming?

Rikki

Rikki

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Hi folks,

Looking to replace my aging and dying Dell 21" CRT. Its got the age old problem of brightness being shot.

I bought an ACER 24" screen last year and immediately returned it (not via OC, was another firm) as it was very bad for image work, colours werent uniform, neither was lighting.

Being a TFT noob (tried to keep away as much as possible) I thought I'd open my query up to the knowledgable folks here.

Buget wise up to £500 would be ok, but of course the cheaper the better. Screen size from 19" upwards as thats what I am using on my Dell 21" anyway.

I'd be using it for Photoshop work, dealing with RAW edits and a fair bit of post processing. Same with Sony Vegas Pro for HD editing of video, and of course Counter Strike Source :D

Thanks folks,

R.
 
I am a heavy Photoshopper (also deal 100% in RAW via ACR and Lightroom) and am also a gamer so required a bigge rmonitor than my 2007WFP that had the same IQ and performance or better.

I have owned:

Dell 2408WFP (S-PVA)
Hyundai W241D S-PVA
BenQ FP241W (A-MVA)
Hazro HZ241W (S-IPS)

Out of the above The Hazro is top for image quality, colour accuracy after calibration and out the box. The BenQ performs slightly better in fast paced games (I say slightly, you would not notice it unless you used both one after the other) and has more features .

The BenQ does have colour shifting though around all angles and the panel type gives it a stranger feel to the image as opposed to the "looking out of a window" feel of an IPS panel

They are all similar in price too.

The Dell was the worst of the bunch, text reading issues and colour issues out the box. The Hyundai had too soft blurry text.

If you can wait a week or two then the Hazro 24" is the way to go, it does not blast you in the face with a brightness or heat like the BenQ does by default and it also has no odd buzzing etc. It's also all Aluminium so looks as professional as it performs :)

The BenQ also had the 2nd worst backlight bleed next to 1st place of the Hyundai. Both Dell and Hazro had no BL bleed.

Hazro!
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Got my Hazro a week or so before mrk and I can second his opinion, it's by far the best 24" monitor available at the present time (damnit NEC, get the 24WUXI launched over here pronto!). It's the only 24" screen sold over here at is an S-IPS which is the only type of LCD you should consider for graphics work (apart from the 24" iMac, but that's a whole computer, not a monitor).

If you need HDCP though you need to hold off until they refresh their range with a new logic board this summer (or buy an HDFury dongle).
 
Thanks for the reply, hadnt heard of Hazro before but have had a look around the net and they seem to be new though well respected.

Being a pro tog yourself, how much messing around did you have to do to get it looking good after taking it out of the box?

And whats it like for gaming as the response times on these types of panels are slower than the cheapo LCDs?

Many thanks,

R.

PS: Love the shots on your site, I need to get my finger out and get out there in the wild again this year!
 
Pretty much all I did was drop the brightness by about 10 and then run calibration, in the calibration software I was asked to adjust the RGB values manually to get the correct 6500k as the preset 6500k was a bit off (closer to 6200k) according to my Eye-One colorimeter but to the naked eye it looked perfectly fine and then even better after calibration.

Gaming had no issues really, it's a 24" IPS screen so I expected it to be a bit different to the 2007WFP 20" IPS I had gamed on for the past 3 years but after the first few days it all settled down to my eyes :)
 
If photoshop is a big thing for you, i.e is accurate colour reproduction important, I'd go for something with an S-PVA or IPS panel rather than a cheaper TN panel.

(edit) just noticed the 2ndpost has this info on it. Ace.
 
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