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The HZR30wS-IPS LCD Monitor color sucks!
Wow. Color of HZR30wS-IPS LCD Monitor sucks. It has a slight blue green cast. Apple Cinema HD monitor way better for color accuracy.
Tom Daigon
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I don’t trust any monitor out of the box. If you want accurate color, you have to profile the monitor and use color management.
The ZR30w has an wide gamut, and offers good color accuracy (delta E) when calibrated, but uncalibrated, it’s apparently inaccurate, and visibly cool and overly vibrant [link].
I have an aging Apple 30 Cinema Display here that needs replacing (it has developed some intolerable image persistence), and I am thinking about the ZR30w, but I’ve only just started my research there — anyone else using a 30″ monitor in a color-managed workflow care to comment?
(Sidebar: Ae/Ps are color-managed, but Pr is not. If you agree that this is a terrible oversight, please consider joining me in filing a feature request [link] for color management in Premiere.)
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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Walter, normally I dont trust monitors out of the box either. But when I placed calibration charts on both my Apple Cinema HD 27 and the HZR30wS-IPS, the difference was shocking to me.
I can understand the need for tweeking and fine tuning, but the HPs was not even close as a starting point as compared to the Apple.The link you provided to AnandTech backs up my initial perception.
I have calibrated it as close as I can. It just strikes me as rather disappointing for a monitor intended for professional workstation use in medical and graphics situations needs so much help to get it right. Where the consumer Apple monitor is dead on from the get go.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64gigs ram
Caligit HD Pro 2 16TB. -
[Tom Daigon] “I have calibrated it as close as I can. It just strikes me as rather disappointing for a monitor intended for professional workstation use in medical and graphics situations needs so much help to get it right. Where the consumer Apple monitor is dead on from the get go.”
I am surprised to hear that it’s not better out of the box, but even high-end monitors need profiling/calibration with a probe.
How’s the monitor aside from the poor defaults? Viewing angle, brightness uniformity, etc.?
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Walter Soyka] “(Sidebar: Ae/Ps are color-managed, but Pr is not.”
they so need to add premiere to that list.
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[Walter Soyka] “(Sidebar: Ae/Ps are color-managed, but Pr is not.”
[Chris Borjis] “they so need to add premiere to that list.”
Please send Adobe some feedback to this effect via feature request [link]. The more, the merrier!
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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Walter-“How’s the monitor aside from the poor defaults? Viewing angle, brightness uniformity, etc.?”
Other than that it seems fine.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64gigs ram
Caligit HD Pro 2 16TB.
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