Monitors

[alwayslearning]

I am wondering what sorts of monitors some of you are using? CRT? LCD? Plasma screen? Or, what monitor would you like to have when you can get it? Within each type of technology there is a huge range of quality ...

All I'm using right now is a LCD display that came with my Toshiba laptop. I'd like to get a really decent monitor some day and am wondering which way to go with that.

Larry

 

[Jeff Anderson]

For actual computer monitors I'm on two 20" LCD's and am quite happy with it. That coupled with a 42" plasma (older panasonic 720P), and an 8" panny lcd (lh80) that I can actually trust for color and exposure do me quite well.

Ultimately I'd love to have the panasonic 26" (bt-lh2600?) and a projector and 2 24" lcd screens for the computer. I've got a projector at home, so right now I just burn a copy and take it home to get a feel for what it would look like on a large scale. Kinda nice for things you know are going to be projected at a convention or meeting or something. CRT's may be the best for getting accurate colors and the blackest blacks but I do minimal color correction and would rather save the depth. That and finding an HD CRT that is broadcast quality is getting harder and harder. AFAIK there are few if any currently being produced. Most all seem to be LCD.

 

[DivotDan]

I just bought a cheapo Soyo 24" LCD. Only cost me $280 @ OfficeMax. I was concerned that the color would suck on it, but when I took it out of the box and plugged it in....it matched my old Dell 17" perfectly (I now have the Dell sitting vertically next to the Soyo so the space looks proportional).

As for color correcting, I dunno. I've had some images printed before and kinda matched screens so that I know what I'm getting when it comes to photos. For video I have a 14" Toshiba CRT monitor and a Sony 26" CRT monitor that I still use to find a happy medium with color (not computer monitors). Most people that I produce wedding video's for have crappy over saturated TV's anyway, so I just make sure the whites are white and the colors arn't super out of whack.