Monitors

[Sascha Haber]

Yep, thats the main reason we are not having them…
I sit tight for the PVWs right now.
Hand picked from our dealer, checked for dead pixels i heard 🙂

A slice of color…

DaVinci 8.0.1 OSX 10.7
MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 470 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

http://www.saschahaber.com

[Jesse Glucksman]

Thanks for all the great information, everyone. I really appreciate it. Coming from a cost vs. ‘what I actually need it for’ place (low budget freelance gigs for the most part), I wish I could justify getting the Flanders 2461 or a fancy-shamcy OLED, but those are a bit out of my price range. I’m bouncing between the HP DreamColor (LP2480zx) and the Flanders 2140, which are about the same cost for now sale on HP.com

What do you folks think about the one versus the other? What is the general comparison between HP’s DreamColor engine, which is included in the LP2480zx, and FSI’s Color Fidelity Engine, which is only included in the out-of-my-league 2461?

Thanks again,
-Jesse

[Guillem Ventura]

FSI doesn’t want representatives in Europe, my trusty dealer tried speaking to them.
That’s the reason I didn’t get a FSI.

But now I may be regretting having bought one of the last DreamColors on the Market.
It has a slight color drift on the left side, ehxhibits some banding (which I thought I’d finally get rid of) and being an EOL product I have no support and I’m afraid any problem I have with it will end with the screen thrown to the garbage.

I bought three years ago a TV Logic because of one of this “forum guru”. What I learned is not to trust them.

You want to buy a hi-fi set? Go listen to it.
Same applies to grading screens!
Make a (cheap) trip to London and have a REAL look, it may be well worth it.

-Guillem @ Blur Producciones, Madrid.

[Mathieu Marano]

I use a Cinetal and a Sharp Aquos. Signal goes try a Cinatal Davio that has a calibration LUT for each display.

For calibration I use Cinespace (now THX) Cineprofiler and CineCube to create the LUTs. We found that the CENCORE OT probe works very well on LCD.

This way the Cinetal CineMage and the Sharp match at 95%.

But I have to say that I’m pretty impressed by the new broadcast plasma from Panasonic (eerie 300) and the Sony oled.

Mathieu Marano
offline/online editor – motion graphics – Post-prod director – DaVinci Resolve operator
http://www.ilovehue.net

Administrator of the Montreal Final Cut User Group
http://www.finalcutmtl.org

[Jesse Glucksman]

Thanks for all the great info. If anyone is still reading this thread at this point, I’m curious of your opinions of the following several monitors (leaving out the HP DreamColor and FSI 2461, which have been discussed extensively–DreamColor seems great for me, other than the HP not continuing the line so support may be lacking, and the FSI being a bit outside of my ideal price range):

Ikegami HLM-2450WB
Panasonic BT-LH2550
Sony LMD-2050WHD
17″ Sony PVM-1741 OLED
15” Sony LMD-1541W

These, based on a couple hours research, all seem like great options but I’d still love your opinions.