[Leica] Summilux Asph arrives: Through a glass darkly

[dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis Painter)]

Feli,

Thanks. I am now thinking it's more complex than just hours "run time". 
Seems you
have to plan for 3+ years with more just being a bonus.

Dennis

Feli di Giorgio wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 22:00, Dennis Painter wrote:
> > Is the 3 years use based on 24/7 or 40 hours/week? Will surely affect 
> > the cost
> > for an amateur user. I would really like to know.
> >
> > Is the color accuracy life specified by any manufacture?
> >
> > Dennis
>
> At work our engineers calibrate workstation monitors about every 6
> weeks. Important "god monitors" (reference monitor for a project) get
> calibrated once a week. It seems that after 3 years they tend to go
> soft, develop convergence issues and become more difficult to keep in
> calibration. Not all monitors are identical and sometimes we get more
> life out of one than another, but they seem to average about 3-4 years
> of use, running 10-16 hours a day, 5-7 days a week. The big wide screen
> SONY tubes are the most difficult to keep in calibration (as are all
> widescreen tubes).
>
> Feli