Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2011-01-21-02:07:20 Chris Crawford: > I had one of the 17 inch NEC crt monitors too, loved it until it finally > died. That's when I replaced it with the LCD I have now. The NEC lcd > screens > are really cool because they are self-calibrating (If you get it with the > Spectraview software and colorimeter). The calibration happens in the > monitor, not by adjusting the video card, the way all other screens are > calibrated. All other screens? No, just all screens without internal lookup tables adjustable to help profile them. In other words, toy monitors. Good monitors have 10- or 12-bit lookup tables which the calibration software tweaks. Good monitors like Eizo, who've been doing that for years (in their serious graphics monitors). "Only NEC", forsooth. Here's the good stuff: http://www.eizo.com/global/products/coloredge/index.html http://www.eizo.com/global/products/coloredge/cg221/index.html