Couple this intuitive software with the Mini ColorChecker ClassicTarget for cameras and you can take advantage of a standard 24-patch target to assist in creating custom camera profiles including a custom white balance, and much more. The included i1Studio Software offers a wealth of color calibration functionality including the ability to calibrate and profile monitors, projectors, scanners, and printers all with an easy to navigate interface. It’s a monitor I’d be happy to take with me when explaining the benefits of colour management to clients, if just to show the clear difference between the MacBook display and the SW240 for those red flowers.With the all-in-one i1Studio Spectrophotometer from x-rite you can profile your monitors, projectors, scanners, mobile devices, and printers. If you take care with your approach to colour management, stepping up to a monitor like this can make a real difference to your photographic output and print quality. It’s interesting to see what were once the specifications of really high end monitors making it into the broader market. The screen is quite elegantly styled, and it was only when I looked at some older monitors I realised just how thin that edge was. The monitor has a useful range of inputs, with the two USB sockets and SD card reader at the side being helpful, although a little tricky to reach without access to the back of the monitor. Update: I’ve written another article covering the editing and printing of bright colours in photos. The use of a larger gamut also brings out more detail and depth in those dark background greens/browns.Īs you’d expect, printing this image raises all kinds of issues. It’s difficult to show the real benefits of a wide gamut monitor in a web article, but the image of the cactus flowers in our conservatory made it really clearĪ different view (slightly different white balance) shows some of the detail, but for both these examples I’ve had to turn down the saturation when processing the images for display here, on the web. I suppose I’m saying that you don’t need to jump on the 4k bandwagon just yet – at least not at 24″ width. I know that when Karen tested the 4k SW271 (see my SW271 review) on her Mac she found that at 27″ she preferred to set the resolution to 1920 wide (with super fine 4k HDR as and when actually needed). I need glasses for screen use and find that current implementations of content scaling for high DPI screens don’t work well enough. I don’t do 4k or 8k video and have no desire to watch video/TV content on a screen that close to me. In these days of super high resolution screens, I’m going to say that for general working I prefer the lower PPI of this 1920 pixel wide screen. (Note – At the time of writing, I see the SW240 being offered in the US with a free hood) The BenQ hoods fit very easily (see my other reviews) but I’m sure that if you’re really on a tight budget and wanted to use the SW240 in a bright environment, you could make one from black art board -) Not too much actually – reminding me that I never used one for the first 25 years of my image editing history. I use a monitor hood with the main monitors in my office, so did wonder if I’d notice the lack of one with the standard SW240. Even that is much less noticeable if you’re properly square on to the screen. The IPS screen is pretty even, with only a slight falloff along the very bottom of the screen I tested. This means that if I swap from C1 to C2 I need to swap the active profile in my System Preferences – this is why meaningful profile names matter.įor the ‘quick sRGB check’ I don’t bother, since web display colour management still remains an area of unpredictable mystery (made worse by phones).įor video, you might want different settings groups, but the nice thing is that you have all the options. The ICC profile is what applications (such as Lightroom/Photoshop) use to ‘know’ what to display. Swapping the calibration does not change the active ICC profile for the screen. With my Macs, there is one thing to note about swapping calibrations on the monitor. – ‘Quick check’ of what images will look like to many web users My own set of three ‘quick select’ options are: The standard setup includes a B&W mode for the screen – I do a lot of B&W work, so prefer to do conversions from colour to B&W under my control. The quick selection button offers three settings to be used.
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