We've got some of the 24 inch Dells at our office. Originally, we
bought them for our compositors, and that's still where they're used,
but what Jeff said about the color having visible artifacts is totally
true (my personal theory is that they have the backlight cranked too
high). I wouldn't say it's that much worse than other LCD's, though.
But I totally don't buy that LCD's are good enough to do color work on
these days -- especially the larger ones, even though a lot of people
will tell you otherwise. Unless the color work you're doing is to see
what your content will look like on a LCD, specifically. But at that
point, you would probably want a calibrated HD monitor. That said, it
is really great to be able to play back footage in ultra-crisp 1080p,
which is why we keep the monitors with the compositors. So, in summary,
I like the 24" screens, but I don't trust them.
In my opinion, the ideal setup for any sort of generalist workstation is
a 24" widescreen monitor coupled with a CRT running at 1600x1200. That
is, unless you've got money for a 30", which, by the way, I'd take over
2 24" screens any day -- especially if you want to do work for film at
full 2K. (I'd probably still want to pair it with a CRT, though.)
-Andy
Joe Laffey wrote:
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Jeff Wilson wrote:
Wow... two 24s would be some serious real estate.
dyter08(at)yahoo.de wrote:
Guten Tag Jeff Wilson,
anyone on 30" here, I was thinking to buy the 30" Dell.
Whats better, 2 LCDs 24" or one 30"?
Two 24"s is great. I much prefer it to a single 30".
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