Professional Photog Request. I shoot art work and need great color accuracy. Do you happen to know how it stands up to the Eizo or NEC monitors?
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I don't have the answer to your question. I also like to take photos, not a Pro, but I found the colors of this monitor are very accurate. My printed photos back from the lab are exactly as showing on the monitor.
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Seems quite neutral to me. I haven't tried to blow it to over 100% and look for CA's or anything like that. You get so many filters to play with, in my view, more than you would ever use. I took them out a couple of times to try the colours on a sunset. OK, but not entirely to my taste. Too obviously manipulated. The NG's and the ND's are the useful ones for me. They are cheap enough, to me, to be worth the learning curve as to what I would want to spend my $$ if more use turns out I need better. So far, 3 art landscape shoots of 100 frames + each, not yet.
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"Just waiting on some reviews before pre ordering. I am a little skeptical about image quality."We can drool, but the proof will be in the tests! I haven't seen a review of a superzoom yet that was not a disappointing compromise. I hope they got this one right, I have used a Fuji for years, very trustworthy and fits my usage requirements.
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I agree with Mariano, and there are many variations of "White Paper" with different brightness levels. The DGK is consistent. I personally use the neutral gray. The two ways I know to use it are to shoot ir close up and then use your camera's custom WB to set the WB, or shoot in RAW and put the DGK in a sample shot at the start and again any time your light changes and batch adjust your WB in a program like Lightroom or Aperture.
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Doubtful, at the price point this monitor is designed for general use. Also, I haven't seen any professional reviews of anyone measuring the accuracy of sRGB and/or Adobe RGB coverage. If you're concerned about color accuracy, this monitor also uses a TN panel not an IPS panel that you'd find in higher-end sudo-professional or higher monitors such as the pro series BenQ monitors or the Dell Ultrasharp series.
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Yes, there is a very huge color shift for TN panel. I do not suggest it for photographic work.
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I use the color checker for everything from macro ring lights. Studio lighting, etc and combinations of any two sources. There's no way of knowing accurate colors otherwise. I see huge differences - to me.
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Totally agree. If a person isn't doing monitor calibrations with a colorimeter like the Spyder -- not by eyeball! -- on a reasonable schedule, they can pretty much expect to have color management problems. Folks who are quick-printing snapshots straight out of their point-and-shoots may not be interested in making the effort, but someone who's willing to invest in a nice printer like this, probably ought to be calibrating their monitor. Just my $0.02.
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Well so far, I have had terrible luck recording indoors. I have seen test on youtube and elsewhere, that display otherwise though. Many of the other reviewers seem to be getting better image quality than me.
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try zooming in closer when trying fine detail. Make resolution of file you are making at least 300/dpi. Its a work around, but for $500 it would be a steal. I think its overpriced at USD 599. But couldn't ever afford ( justify to self ) Cintique, even the cheapie.
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If you are that concerned about the CRI (Color Rendering Index) of these buy one and test it. Personally once I have my lighting set, I set the white balance in camera and tweak in post. Typically it is a very minor tweak if any. So far I have not noticed any shift in color from one lamp to the next - I have 4 of them-. If and when color is that critical use a color chart, there again as everyone's (your audience's) TV/Monitor/Screen is going to be an uncontrollable variable, in terms of color output... Add to that, the TLCI is more relevant for video. If you are transferring your video to film then the CRI has more relevance due to the nature of the film's emulsion, which in itself is a variable as one batch of film will vary from the one before or after just as the imaging chip of one camera can and will vary to the next. Lastly most color correction software can combat -with a little work- the effects of a cross-curve. If you want inexpensive lights that work get these, if you want perfectly clean color from your lights then you will have to pay a lot more.
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Forgot to mention, I do own the Kasina. I bought a Procyon first, sent it back because of a defect, bought the Proteus and it is in a drawer not being used. While I had the Procyon, it was great. I don't know why I didn't get the Procyon again. The Kasina has something called ColorTrack or ColorOrgan (can't remember the actual name) which does nothing for me.
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Yes its worked great for me. outline drawings are actually the best. color photos n stuff come out blurry usually. but yes for outlines its awesome. I'm happy with the machine. jus make sure ur outline is nice n dark. it comes out perfect every time.
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Well, I don't have the Tamron but the Kenko is really good. I actually picked it over the canon 2x TC. I have the canon 1.4 X and they go great together and the Kenko retains AF wich the canon does not. You can't go wrong with the Kenko. Hope this could help somehow. Good shooting and keep making art.
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I use this monitor for color science research and color graphics work where color accuracy is important. There are several color spaces that you can select for color display. For digital photo editing you'll want to set the monitor menu to the sRGB setting, maximize brightness, and then create a color profile using a calibrator for the most accurate color. (Whether or not you can skip creating a color profile, and simply rely on the monitor's preprogrammed calibration, depends on how critical you are about color.) There is also an AdobeRGB setting in the monitor menu, but don't use that unless you really know what your doing! In "standard" display mode you get an exceptionally wide color gamut for display, much wider than AdobeRGB, but special software is necessary to use that mode properly. To some extent you are paying for the ability to display an extra wide range of colors that you can't actually use because digital cameras and PC/Mac software always assume sRGB color space by default. But if you want a nice bright display, with a very stable and adjustable stand, then the extra expense is worth it. Also, this monitor comes with just about every kind of video cable that is in general use today, a nice feature.
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thank you for the questionactually I returned it back as it didnt match my requirements using it in big room, regarding resolution and illumination (lumins units)wish to help you more :)
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VERY IMPORTANT - Select the 'CINEMA' setting. In all the other settings, colors are off. But with the Cinema setting (I think that's what its called), colors are actually PERFECT! Amazing quality. At first I didn't know about this, but saw some discussion of it online. I am really very impressed with near photo-quality using this setting - but ONLY this setting has worked for me.