What's a good monitor for photo editing?

Question

What's a good monitor for photo editing?

Answer 1

A calibrated desktop monitor. In Mac OS X it's easy: go to System Preferences, click on Displays, then click on Color and then click the Calibrate... button. On Windows I'm sure it can be done but I don't know how.



You can calibrate a laptop monitor but if you take that laptop lots of different places it's kind of pointless. You could create various calibration profiles: one for your laptop at the coffee shop, another one for your laptop at home, another one for your laptop at the beach at sunset, etc.

Answer 2

You need to calibrate both your LCD monitor and your laptop....It will definitely help you. I use a Huey Pro colour/brightness calibrator to do this... It's reasonably cheap in comparison to others and does the job.



If you really want to splash out, check the EIZO range of monitors...

Answer 3

Whatever monitor you are using it needs to be calibrated, so that brightness, contrast & colours are as accurate as possible.



Various calibration devices on market ColorMunki, Spyder are just a couple.

Answer 4

1. They need to be calibrated...

I use a spyder three express (it is apart of their affordable range)

http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s3express.php



To learn more about colour calibration

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/CM_intro.html



2. Monitors can only display a limited range of colours.

Most monitors will be more than enough for most applications.

Many photographers prefer the consistency of apple monitors (because it is consistant compared to all the other brands on the market for windows.



Some of the best monitors include the

Dell UltraSharp (http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/landing/en/ultrasharpmonitor?c=us&l=en&cs=04)

and anything from

Eizo (http://www.eizo.com/global/)