Namelessme
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I got a relatively inexpensive used NEC LCD2190Uxp yesterday, and am wondering what calibration tools are compatible, and ideally cheap. Spyder 3? I believe the NEC models also use spectraview software for calibrating, but am not sure if that is free or a separate purchase.
My LCD palette is somewhat lacking, so I don't have a ton of experience with LCDs (CRT person) but the display itself looks somewhat decent to me without calibrating. I need to change the brightness some, and the blues look duller than on my CRT, but the rest of the colors look similar or better than my CRT. Well, besides black, of course, but the black isn't super terrible on this thing either.Reds and yellows are quite nice and it's much, much sharper.
Angles are better than I expected, no screen flaws at all, and no glow in the corners like IPS (yay). Some grain, unfortunately, but not as much as the IPS panel I used to have.
Anyway... is there a cheap calibration tool recommended? I think this monitor allows hardware calibration, so data is stored in the LUT. So maybe its previous owner calibrated it decently already... also not even sure what color mode to use for this thing. I have various color temps, s-rgb (which I have it in now), native and programmed (calibrated). Any owners of this monitor out there that can offer suggestions?
And is there a way to determine the number of hours the backlight has been used? The advanced OSD doesn't seem to store that info on this monitor -- not sure how people figure that out.
My LCD palette is somewhat lacking, so I don't have a ton of experience with LCDs (CRT person) but the display itself looks somewhat decent to me without calibrating. I need to change the brightness some, and the blues look duller than on my CRT, but the rest of the colors look similar or better than my CRT. Well, besides black, of course, but the black isn't super terrible on this thing either.Reds and yellows are quite nice and it's much, much sharper.
Angles are better than I expected, no screen flaws at all, and no glow in the corners like IPS (yay). Some grain, unfortunately, but not as much as the IPS panel I used to have.
Anyway... is there a cheap calibration tool recommended? I think this monitor allows hardware calibration, so data is stored in the LUT. So maybe its previous owner calibrated it decently already... also not even sure what color mode to use for this thing. I have various color temps, s-rgb (which I have it in now), native and programmed (calibrated). Any owners of this monitor out there that can offer suggestions?
And is there a way to determine the number of hours the backlight has been used? The advanced OSD doesn't seem to store that info on this monitor -- not sure how people figure that out.