has my monitor seen better days ?

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While browsing some of the great photos I see on TP recently two posted photos (links below) good photos but other members have remarked about something in the photos which I can't see in the shadows. 1st linked photo Gary is asking about a bridge which he can obviously see. I cannot see this bridge unless I open the pic up in photoshop and whack the levels right up, destroying the photo in the process. A similar case on the second link, Markevan suggests cloning out trailers, I can't see anything in the dark area that would resemble a trailer unless again I whack the levels up in photoshop and ruining the photo.

My monitor is a TFT Samsung Synchmaster 710N, the software that came with it is no longer any use as it wont work with Vista 64bit, still no sign of them updating it yet. The brightness levels on my monitor is currently at 97% Contrast is high too.
To me everything else looks fine on screen but it confuses me when Folk talk about something in a photo that I can't see on mine, also on photos I've posted here and elsewhere and comments are suggesting more saturation/contrast, if I do that then it looks overcooked on my screen.
I've used Adobe Gamma to calibrate the monitor best as I can, I had considered a hardware calibrator ie; spyderpro but have read it can be a hit or a miss on tft screens.

Is it time for me to consider another monitor?

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=61261

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=61208
 
I can see both the bridge and the trailers. If your monitor is turned up about as far as it will go and you still can't see them then yes I think it's reached it's use by date :(
 
I can see the commented items quite easily.

Getting the monitor right is important. i'd have thought Adobe Gamma should have got it fairly close. You could try this site.

It is only when I don't get too dark or too light comments on posted pictures that i start to believe my monitor is really right :)
 
Now my son has just visited and I asked him to check my monitor in case it was my eyes being wonky. Standing behind me he could see the contents of the dark areas, upon standing up I could now see them too, at first I thought well I've been sitting too low in the chair so I raised it, still can't see in the dark areas unless I stand up looking down at the monitor from above.

Robert thanks for that link, my white point seems to be ok from a sitting position but the black point I need to be standing looking down at the monitor before I can see the difference in the wedges.
 
LOL Ian, I even went and checked at a online colourblindness site just in case, passed with flying colours(no pun intended). My son did a bit jiggling about with the controls of the Nvidia geforce 8600 card because there is not much control on via the monitor switches. That and the link Robert posted has now resulted in being able to see the bridge or whatever in Romper's photo.

Thanks to all.
 
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