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Interested to hear from people who have recently bought a new monitor and what you think of it.

I recently bought an HP LP2475 monitor and although it has got some rave reviews, I cannot for the hell of me get the display (using a Spyder 3 Elite) looking how I want it to look. Images looks about one stop too bright than my older monitor (a Viewsonic VP930) and mid low tones look a little weak. Its driving me MAD:gag:. In addition, on the HP, colours on web browsers look over saturated which is very irritating. I think the problem here is that its a wide gamut monitor.

I'm near enough going to give up on this monitor, flog it (anyone interested?) and try something else that perhaps isn't a wide gamut monitor, so I'm looking for some suggestions. Recommendations anyone? I want a 24" monitor.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
 
I use the same as you and Im really pleased with it! I agree however about some browsers being over saturated, and it tends to lean on the warm side with some images being a bit redder than I would like. However it looks 100% better than the asus 19inch I have along side it.

Ill have yours cheap if you are getting rid!

Have you tried the sudio set up thing is Spyder. I did mine yesterday for the first time and it made a difference to the warmness.
 
TCR4x4 said:
I use the same as you and Im really pleased with it! I agree however about some browsers being over saturated, and it tends to lean on the warm side with some images being a bit redder than I would like. However it looks 100% better than the asus 19inch I have along side it.

Ill have yours cheap if you are getting rid!

Have you tried the sudio set up thing is Spyder. I did mine yesterday for the first time and it made a difference to the warmness.
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Yes it does have a very slight warm bias. I calibrate it with a Spyder 3 Elite (set at 6500k 2.2 gamma).
 
I had a 24" Apple LED cinema display connected to my macbook but had to sell it. It was amazing though. Now I'm back on the little 13" screen of my macbook which is still very good.
 
Hi

I use, and thoroughly recommend, the Dell IPS monitors. I use a WA22 E-IPS...I think that's the model name, definitely that or similar.

Have fun shopping :)

Regards

Danny
 
Did I read somewhere that the spyder 3 is a colorimeter, and hence not particularly capable at calibrating wide gamut monitors?

That said, I bought a colormunki spectophotometer to calibrate my old samsung, (normal TN), [but looking forward to the Dell U2410 on its way, wide gamut IPS], and I am having a similar issue that the brightness appears to be +1, i.e., I need to mod my images to how I want them, then +1 the brightness to get the print to be equal to what I was seeing.
 
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neil_g said:
im running 2 dell 2209wa's calibrated with a spyder 3 pro.. calibrate real nice.
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That's it!!! 2209WA!! Lol, I was almost there!!! Should've read this first!!
 
I've got the HP ZR22w - 21.5" IPS monitor with 1920x1080 resolution. Had a Vaio Laptop with glossy TN screen prior to this which I though had a good picture till I upgraded to a separate PC & Monitor. Could not go back to a laptop now!
 
Dell U2410.

Stunning monitor, more so than the Apple 30" Cinema Display I had in colour, but still no 30" screen. So, I'd recommend either from personal experience.
 
2xU2410s here, calibrated with a eye-one. Out of the box you could tell there were differences, once calibrated, they look the same to me...
 
HP w2207v at the moment, I haven't calibrated it but its a very close match to what gets printed by me and other printers.

HP ZR24W is epic though, definately going to be getting one when I've got some spare money.
 
I'm using a 17" Fujitsu Siemens LCD, it seemed big after the old 15" CRT's, i could do with a 19" minimum now.
 
I'm running 2x Dell 22" monitors - one is 2209WA (IPS) and the other a 2208WFP (TN) - both of them are calibrated using an i2 to the same profile but there's a clear difference between the 2 - the IPS one produces much better looking colours, especially when looking a portraits - the TN monitor tends to produce a brighter image but colours don't look as natural
 
1 x 30" Apple Cinema Display
1 x 23" Apple Cinema Display
1 x Eizo CG245W

All calibrated using Eye One Pro
 
I've got a Samsung SyncMaster 206BW. It looks nice with a black border and a silver bar across the bottom. The on/off button is also pleasantly back lit in blue.
 
Apple 27" LED cinema display here on my PC. Calibrated with a colormunki
 
High gamut monitors will display sRGB images as over saturated in non-colour managed applications.

My U2410 is exactly the same. In colour managed apps the colours are fab and very accurate. Outside CM apps (desktop, file explorere etc) the colours are all over staurated. I use firefox with is able to display all images OK. IE (AFAIK) is still not colour managed.

Stick with it... Have you had any prints back - how do they compare ?
 
Just bought a 2209WA reccomended on here superb once calibrated with Huey Pro
 
I use a BenQ FP241w (24" 1920x1200, VA panel) combined with my MacBook Pro 15" (1680x1050 matte) screen. The BenQ is a slightly older monitor (from '06) but it did get very good reviews. I have not had it calibrated yet, but I want to get a calibrator soon.
 
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I use a Packard Bell Video 190W. Streets ahead of the EM150 we used to have and now shows why many of my earlier photos were over-processed! The widescreen is also much better.
 
LG 42" 1080p LED backlit LCD TV :) model number (meh at work)

Works well saves me dusting off my 2407FP Dell.
 
22" wide calibrated Xerox
XM7-22W
 
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