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12/25/2006 12:43:17 PM · #1 |
I just bought this 22" monitor and so far it's blown me away in terms of sharpness and color reproduction. The images look GREAT; however, my eyes feel very strained when looking at it; and they get tired after even a short period of usage. There doesn't seem to be any setting which makes the light less 'intense', so maybe it's my own fault for being too sensitive? Can anyone offer some advice on this please?
Merry christmas everyone!
Message edited by author 2006-12-25 12:45:51. |
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12/25/2006 12:52:30 PM · #2 |
| It may be that it is just *too* bright. Many LCDs are. Hardware calibration is the ideal way to optimize it. |
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12/25/2006 03:14:42 PM · #3 |
Nice monitor....
I normally use a CRT for photo editing, but used a 19" Dell for a while earlier in the year.
I found that it was quite a bit brighter under the same lighting conditions I used my CRT in. When the LCD was showing a good tone range (using 50% patterns to judge gamma, I don't have a spider) it was easily twice as bright as the CRT.
My solution was to increase the level of lighting in the room to compensate. With the CRT I would normally just have one 11W compact flouro in a desk lamp on in the room, with the LCD I went to an 18W compact flouro in the desk lamp, and turned on the overhead 18W as well.
I imagine that as long as you don't wind up with an overly bright room this is a good solution. Avoid different temperature lights though, as they can 'mask' colour casts in images.
As an asside I was never that happy with the colour rendition of the LCD though, which is why I went back to my Sony CRT.
I will be looking at an LCD later this year, as the CRT pulls nearly 300W on the power bill! I had thought that the rating on the back (350W) would be a worst case, but found that with a 'normal' desktop+photo image on the screen it's doing 1.2A on an AC ameter (288W @ 240V).
Cheers, Chris H. |
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12/25/2006 03:37:50 PM · #4 |
Contrast 70
Brightnes 46
User Colour settings R/G/B all at 45
got these settings from this web page
//www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1084570
might be worth a shot |
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12/25/2006 04:12:42 PM · #5 |
| When I got my LCD it was really bright at first. I just sat down and calibrated it until it was better. It's still much brighter than the CRT but I got used to it and now I love it. I do have it really close to color correct and it matches my printer (the most important thing) but I would still like to get a Spider or Pantone Huey and get both the monitor and printer that last little bit closer to perfect. I do know it's very close as the larger prints that I have out-labbed on a fully calibrated system are almost exact to my prints and Dave does not have to tweak any of my images. |
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12/25/2006 04:27:33 PM · #6 |
Most all monitors these days (crt or lcd) have adjustments for gamma, brightness, contrast as well as 'movie' or 'game' or 'pc' settings.
The proper thing to do is to get a calibration device and calibrate it. I got my LCD about 3 weeks ago and it looked off to me, and after using a colorvision spyder pro 2 it now looks the same as my CRT (i run dual monitors, one of each). The LCD is much contrastier than the CRT, and I do prefer it (perhaps more resolution, or that it's wide, or has no flicker, etc) It also matches the prints from my lab more closely than my CRT.
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