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Advice about buying monitors
bloody000:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on August 29, 2010, 03:16:37 PM ---In the pursuit of trying to give myself an excuse to buy one, I went and traded the first PS2 Devil Summoner for couple of Minolta SRT SLRs and six lenses. Now I'm looking for a good deal on a film scanner and some bulk fujichrome. Once I've got all that, I'll have to get a decent monitor for the purposes of image editing :P
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shoot -> shoot some more -> roll(s) finished -> drive to a decent lab -> go back a day or two later -> go home and spent an hour cleaning and scanning stuff -> dealing with scanner noise -> start doing PP -> smash head into keyboard
Nightmare, just nightmare. and I haven't even mention the lack of decent high ISO film or the difficulty(sometimes inability) of changing a roll midway.
nstgc:
I got the monitor today. I've been trying it out. I have a single dead pixel and I must say it is terribly annoying. I had a stuck pixel on my Samsung, but it didn't bother me. This does...a lot.
Other than that its very good. The color is good, the resolution is great, and the ghosting, to my surprise is better. I'm going to try some pixel massage tomorrow while I'm gone. I may send it back depending on their policy (if I can keep sending it back until they get it right).
[edit] Also, I've asked this before, but no one answered, and I can't find the answer on Google: how can I tell how many powered on hours this monitor has?
xShadow:
Umm... Like I said in a post a little ways back, I just went into the monitor options and pushed "Information".
In other words, push that left-most button on your monitor once. Press the plus sign 4 times. Press that left-most button again. Look at total hours and total backlight hours. I think backlight hours is all that really matters, and most of these don't have that many.
Also, where is your dead pixel located, and are you sure it's not more than one? I can't really tell mine are there during regular operation (mine are in corner-ish areas). Is yours in the direct center? Also, if you can see it that well, it might very well be a small cluster of them.
Edit: It may just be "that thing" I did earlier, but I'm wondering if my monitor's got a certain thing ghosted all over it, or if it's just the way it displays things in general. nstgc, if you put on a white background, do you by any chance notice any strange graininess (I guess that's the best way to describe it) to the white image, when you're at least 2 feet away from the monitor? I'm wondering if it's maybe just the way the monitor works (in which case I'm fine with it), but I'm wondering if this supposed stuck pixel fix (that didn't fix squat) actually ghosted my entire screen with random colors.
For those who wanna know what "that thing" is, just click on this:
http://www.jscreenfix.com/
Run that little Java applet it has. I'm starting to wonder if the way this looks was caused by that applet, or whether this monitor was just like that. If it was caused by that applet, I hope it goes away with time. Otherwise, I don't care.
nstgc:
My dead pixel(s) is(are) 3cm from the left and 3 cm up. The pixel massage failed. I don't notice any strange graininess.
I do think the colors are a bit washed out.
my back light has 1086 hours on it.
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