Talking of CRT vs LCD, I've just bought and am now using a 19" Dell 1905FP
LCD TFT flat panel monitor which puts my old 17" CRT monitor to shame
(except the CRT's top also served as a convenient temporary "shelf" for
stuff).
Allan
PS No trees were harmed in the sending of this message and a very large
number of electrons were asked their permission to be terribly
inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
about it).
Disrupting the unnatural balance that you, as a conscious human being and a
confused mass of energy, have created.
-Disturb the mind -
>From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: CRT vs LCD, and a note for Tom Scales
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:32:25 -0500
>
>Do your comments about your T series display imply that its brightness
>can be reduced to the vicinity of the recommended 120 Cd/m^2?
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>Stephen Scharf wrote:
>
> > MIke,
> > You're correct, AFAIK, in that the T models are a higher
> > specification than the B models. But I couldn't
> > tell you exactly in what respect. The contrast ratio on my 215 TW is
> > 1000:1, so blacks and whites
> > certainly appear black and white. It makes my LaCie CRT look almost
> > dingy by comparison.
> >
> > Regarding taking a while to get your profile for printing right, it
> > could be that you
> > are having a monitor luminance/print brightness mismatch. Most people
> > use too high
> > a monitor luminance with LCDs since they are *so* bright, but this
> > often exacerbates
> > this mismatch. Most color management experts recommend a monitor
> > luminance around 120 Cd/m^2 for LCDs as a
> > starting point, which is well below the maximum luminance that most
> > LCDs are capable of these days. Of
> > course, YMMV. Profiling and testing is always the best policy. I am
> > presuming that you have some sort of calibrator
> > that you can use with your monitor to create a monitor profile.
>
>
>
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