Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/13

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Subject: [Leica] Portrait monitor advice
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Fri Apr 13 16:22:09 2007
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Tom, I have no personal experience with the Lacie monitors. 
The principle of the higher bit calibration is that the displayed tonal 
range is smoother. The actual displayed (calibrated) tones
are chosen from a bigger range. The best of the Eizo's have hardware 
calibration, and one model will display the entire Adobe RGB
space. You can read the detail on Eizo's web info. From my personal viewing, 
they are extremely tonally smooth and the brightness
and colour is very consistent as the viewing angle changes.
Finally the top of the line model, at least in Australia, costs a bit more 
than an M8!

Cheers
Hoppy 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Tom Schofield
Sent: Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:47
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Portrait monitor advice

Maybe someone can educate me.  The Eizo monitors indicate 14 and 16  
bit processing, but 10 and 12 bit color calibration, respectively.   
What is the difference?

The LaCie indicates 12 bit Gamut correction.  Perhaps then the $1600 LaCie 
is more comparable to the $2800 eizo than the $1200 Eizo,
representing a better value.

Tom


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