Showing posts with label LCD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LCD. Show all posts

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Monitor calibration and gamma


In this page we discuss a critical step in setting up a digital darkroom: calibrating your monitor so it conforms to widely-accepted standards of image display. A properly calibrated monitor is essential for making prints that match the monitor image; it is an absolute necessity for success in the digital darkroom. Printer calibration is now on a separate page....Full Article Here

QuickGamma is a small utility program to calibrate a monitor on the fly without having to buy expensive hardware tools.

Friday, February 1, 2008

My Story of Woe....Poor Me!...But?






















I was saving for a Sigma 10-20mm HSM lens and had $240 saved toward it. When all of a sudden my best monitor just died on my dual-monitor setup. So I screamed knowing the sigma was out of reach for now. I started researching and found the Best LCD for less than $350.

And I found one that was highly praised a HP w2207 22" Lcd for $330 at Office Depot.

It was considered the Best Bang for the Buck. So I started saving the additional $90 when once again craigslist came to the rescue.

Found one for $230 the guy was moving to seattle and had his only 3 weeks. Mint condition with no dead pixels. He even delivered and stayed with me while I hooked it up. All I can say was Whoa! I have been living in the dark ages.

excerpt from Digital Trends:

"Photo & DVD Results

The w2007 is quite impressive for viewing high resolution photos. The glossy screen really brings images to life. When viewing some of my favorite photographs, I found myself continually impressed with the image. Colors are unbelievably vivid, and skin tones so realistic it almost seemed like my photo subjects were sitting in front of me again.
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L
ink to the full review...Here
Amazon customer reviews...Here

It change things for the better since I spend more time in front of it than behind the viewfinder. Need to work on getting out and doing it more. Now I need a second one since my second monitor is a Viewsonic 17 crt and pales in comparision. But!...But! I need my Sigma 10-20 too!

Starting again this is my Desktop Widget