Which 24" would you recommend?

[JohnQM]

Hello,

I've started 6 months ago with my quest for a new monitor and although I have gathered a lot of information it remains a difficult choice. The market changes in a fast manner and the choice is more difficult when you want an allrounder.

I will be using the monitor mostly for photographic work and webdevelopment, but also for video editing and classic work like office, programming and internet. I do rarely play games. This means a mix of both colour- and non colour managed applications. I don't print often but nevertheless when I do I like to have a certain degree of quality both at home as when sending to a printlabo. Although most labo's print in sRGB I think it would be nice to see pictures who benefit from a wide gamut on a wide gamut screen. I already have bought a Eye-one Display 2 to calibrate my future monitor.

Which of the following screens would you recommend?
1)Samsung 245T : Excellent monitor according to prad.de; has about 92% of sRGB colours. sRGB mode is working well, but some primary colours are not as good as in aRGB.

2) Dell 2408-WFP : Wide gamut monitor but according to the forums I have read, the sRGB mode (even after calibration) is terrible making it, I think, useless for everything other than colour-managed applications. Many persons seem to have problem with this. What makes it attractive is it low price tag and the fact it is using the same panel as the Samsung 245T, which received excellent score at prad.

3) Belinea 2485 S1W : Excellent screen according to prad.de. Is a real sRGB screen but has no dhcp which seems to be a big disadvantage in the future.

4) Eizo S2411W. Is more expensive than the other screens but comes with longer warranty and death pixel warranty. I don't know if the extra price is worth it.

5) Following screens are good but to expensive. I'm not a professional photographer.
- Eizo SX2461W
- Eizo CG241W (uniform brightness)
- Nec 2490WUXI : not available in Europe but the 26" wide gamut version is available

One point which make me really thinking about is "wide gamut". Is a wide gamut screen really bad in displaying sRGB? After all, most wide gamut screen do not even display 100% of sRGB (or RGB???) , so why would a sRGB screen which covers 92% of sRGB be so bad? Or is it in practice perfect workable?

Thanks for your advise.
John

 

[Tweeed]

The two I tried Samsung 245t and Dell 2408wfp. Skip the Dell if I were you. There was more banding, black light bleed was awful in 3 coners. The Samsung 245t they sent me two by mistake and both were perfect no blacklight bleed, no stuck or dead pixels. I am keeping this one. As for the rest I have no clue sorry.

 

[albovin]

Hello,

I've started 6 months ago with my quest for a new monitor and although I have gathered a lot of information it remains a difficult choice. The market changes in a fast manner and the choice is more difficult when you want an allrounder.

I will be using the monitor mostly for photographic work and webdevelopment, but also for video editing and classic work like office, programming and internet.

Rule out all non-IPS monitors including Eizos.
The best choice is the NEC 2490WUXi.
If it is not available - look at a new brand Hazro.
The review is here.

24" Hazro is not equal 2490 in any aspect but still make sense.
There are no more choices in 24".
More options may be in 23" IPS (Apple and Hazro).
Make sure you are buying a standard gamut monitor.
As a web designer, stay away from wide gamut monitors.

 

[Shadow669]

To bad you can't have the 2490, I have one and it's an awesome monitor with the SpectraView calibrator, since then my print from an Epson R2400 are fabulous. If you do photo editing the Nec 2690 is a very good option too, but for video editing sRGB, the 2490 is the better option.

 

[JohnQM]

1. Maybe it's important to say that photographic work is just a hobby, I'm not selling any pictures but I'm learning a 3 year course as photographer which will remain a hobby. Do you think it changes something to the requirements?

2. I have looked at hazro but I can not find any reseller in Europe except in the UK. Plus this seems to be a small (starter) company where the short warranty could be an issue.

3. I would like to go for an 24" because of the extra resolution; you get 25% space which make it convenient to work with 2 big A4 pages and in photoshop making extra space avaible for the toolsbars.

So, which options are left?

 

[jegefe]

I needed a monitor for digital cartography. I was replacing an old dell 18" S-IPS, and wanted to stick with IPS, but also wanted 24", so I can see more of my maps.

Dell (small business) offered me $1040 inc. delivery on the NEC IPS panel, but I didn't want to spend that much. I guess it's a good price though...

From everything I read, I didn't want to try a new 2408.

I almost bought a used Apple Cinema 23" on Ebay, but I missed the only "good" deal I saw, so I found a very good price on a used Dell 2407, and got it.

It's not IPS, so I view it as a temporary fix. My old monitor is dead, and I needed something right away. Hopefully it will be here tomorrow, and the condition will be as described.

I may just end up with an Apple off of ebay, or the NEC, if no new IPS panels show up in the next few months. I kind of doubt that the Hazro will be available in the USA anytime soon, and I'd guess it will be as much as the NEC anyway.