New 30 Inch Monitor

[avandonk]

The endless cloudy nights have made me upgrade my monitor. After looking at all the available 30 inch monitors with 2560X1600 resolution I finally settled on a Dell U3011.

It has far more inputs than the competition and comes factory calibrated for both sRGB and Adobe RGB.

Full review here

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u3011.htm


Here is a screen grab at full resolution 2.5MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2010_10/fullscr.jpg


The colour and resolution have to be seen to be believed.

So far I am very happy with it. I had to upgrade the video card to an Asus EAH5870 to drive it adequately at this resolution.

From now on if the colour balance is wrong it is my fault!

Bert

[koputai]

Should be a great monitor Bert. I have the 27 inch version (U2711) which is tops. It does tend to make me think I need a newer pc to drive it though!

I hope you enjoy it.

Cheers,
Jason.

[turbo_pascale]

Congrats Bert on the new monitor.

I would strongly suggest the purchase of a hardware calibrator. I have a Spyder3 for my NEC 30" monitor (http://www.imagescience.com.au/products/NEC-3090WQXi-30-Inch-Widescreen-Colour-Critical-Monitor.html), and also purchased the software from NEC that directly calibrates the internal hardware (12bit LUT) of the monitor.

My factory settings were pretty good, but once calibrated, there was a significant difference.

There is a weath of information on the ImageScience (http://www.imagescience.com.au/) website, and I would suggest you read it if you really want your processing workflow to reap benefits on the monitor.

I had looked at the Dell myself and was on my short list for a long time, but once I saw the Eizo monitors, I was drooling, but couldn't stretch that far and got the NEC instead. There is a serious price premium, but I will never regret my purchase (plus for laughs I can make mine portrait orientation if I really could be bothered!). It is an awesome monitor.

Turbo