best display for portrait photography?

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What is the best display to get for portrait / headshot photography?

i'm ideally looking for a 23" display as I have other work to do on it that requires 23".

Budget no more than apple 23" display in £

Thanks! :)
 
What makes you think there's displays that are better for one type of photography than another Matt? Sorry, but I have to ask.
 
Kev M said:
What makes you think there's displays that are better for one type of photography than another Matt? Sorry, but I have to ask.
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Some displays might be better suited for accuracy in skin tones.

However, I'm mainly black and white anyway.

But I have noticed that some displays show things differently, e.g. a customer complained that their hair looked "wirey" - and on my viewsonic VP201s I could not see it. But on another display, it was very noticeable.

What I need is a reliable display.
 
A lot of the differences your customer noted can be down to differing resolutions and set up brightness, contrast etc.a No two monitors will be the sme unless calibrated.
 
PsiFox said:
A lot of the differences your customer noted can be down to differing resolutions and set up brightness, contrast etc.a No two monitors will be the sme unless calibrated.
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sure, but there must be some decent monitors out there that are a good comparison to printed colours and qualities, and some better monitors for pro photography vs. some not so good... its the same with any product usually.
 
Obviously the comments made so far are pretty common sense.

I know that different monitors look completely different, for example, I used to have a viewsonic 19" where I simply could not calibrate it to look right, and it messed up my images and thus was very difficult to do colour correction. However, viewsonic 21" VP201s showed colours much better and is fairly easy to calibrate (althuogh greys appeared slightly pink and this was a slight problem).

So I'm assuming there must be better monitors and worse monitors known to the professional community.

Is what everyone's trying to say, I shouldn't worry about the monitor, and all achieve the same thing? So instead of wasting my money I should just buy a cheap monitor?

I'm getting confused as to the message here.

Thanks :)

Matt
 
My Dell 2407 wfp is superb the 2408 is ever better. Both of them are better than the 23" apple displays.
 
I've been happy enough with my Dell 2405 to buy a second one. It's not possible to know if they meet everyone's exacting standards but they work for me.

Bob
 
Ultra wide gamut LCDs are the new hotness. Pricey though.

http://www.displayblog.com/2008/09/10/lacie-724-24-lcd-monitor-with-rgb-led-backlight/

"new 700 series of LCD monitors designed to offer the closest match between captured,
displayed, and printed colours for creative professionals needing superior colour accuracy"

http://www.photographyblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/lacie_730_724_and_720_monitors/

Which introduces a paradox: 5D Mk II or new display or both, given that the quality of the former won't be appreciable on an old school display.
 
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