Other resolutions for Dell 2707?

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Tom Kirshbaum

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I've just received my 2707. Thanks to all those who helped me make up my mind with great posts in this forum.

I love the monitor. beautiful screen and workmanship. No bad pixels. Vivid colors. Calibrating with Spyder2 did little, only darkening the screen a touch.

Though the large dot pitch helps, from my most comfortable position 44" from the screen, a lot of text is still too small to read comfortably at 1920 x 1200. Not things that I can make bigger by adjusting font size, but icons and the clock on the menu bars, pull-down menus, JPG text on web sites, titles of files on the desktop, etc.

I find to my surprise that the 1600 x 1000 resolution is clear and very comfortable to read. Photos and graphics look good. Even at that resolution I have plenty of real estate for my needs (Text, spreadsheets, photos, etc. I don't game).

I'm not asking anyone to rain on my parade since I'm happy with the current arrangement. I am, however, curious. I understood all along that LCD monitors should work at their native resolution. Now I'm wondering why people say that. Or why Dell does.

At seventy my eyes aren't great, but I still check out at 20/20 corrected at the optometrist's. Is what i'm seeing not as clear and good as I think it is? What's wrong with 1600 x 1000?

Don't worry, you won't hurt my feelings if you tell me I'm too blind to see the imperfections. That might be one of the few benefits of age.

Better yet, I'd like to know how 1600 x 1000 looks to others on their 2707s. I'm using DVI and a Radeon 9200 MAC 128MB AGP video card i bought on Ebay, running on an old G4 Mac AGP.

Tom Kirshbaum
 
For LCDs, the native resolution will look the best. The other resolutions don't look as good or sharp for an LCD.

How big is the monitor? That should be a factor.

You sit 44" from the monitor. That's quite a large distance. Perhaps you should sit closer. I sit 25-30" from my monitor.

Even if you do have 20/20 vision at age 70, you're not going to be able to see as well as me at age 21.

On the contrary, I use a 4:3 19" (technically 18", fucking liars) CRT running at 2048x1536.
 
The Dell 2707 is a 27" monitor with a large dot pitch (.303, I think).

Has anyone else had good results usint the 1200x1600 resolution with this monitor?

Tom Kirshbaum
 
Tom Kirshbaum said:
The Dell 2707 is a 27" monitor with a large dot pitch (.303, I think).

Tom Kirshbaum
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I would despise running 1600x1000 on a 27" monitor, but that's just my personal preference. If you're not an avid gamer or graphics designer, continue using the resolution you like. It just won't be as sharp or clear as the native resolution. As long as you like it, go with it.

I don’t think 20/20 visual acuity is as important as most people claim it to be.

I have extremely high myopia (near-sightedness) greater than -9.00 diopters. Heck, I can’t even see the big “E” on the Snellen chart without my glasses. I honestly think that Snellen chart being used for vision acuity is bunch of garbage. I guess I'm around 20/1500, but I could be wrong. I can read small text with no problems.
 
The reason why it looks good is because it has an excellent built in scaler :)

I think the 2707 is an excellent bit of kit!! :D
 
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