[QUOTE=JBRAA;513620]Professional just means employed, not a specific skill-level, or experience-level.
I have reviewed monitors and other hardware yes.[/QUOTE]Very true, but that just means you have an opinion,as does everyone, even myself, and mileage varies. I’m not an editor, but I am a photographer (many years amateur, 2 years semi-pro, currently pro) and I do all my own editing so I also understand the value of monitors and calibration and rely on it, heavily. That doesn’t of course mean I know everything, but i’ll take my experience and that of the many other Pro photographers I know, over your opinion. Without a decent monitor, correctly calibrated, we would all agree, we’re screwed. You can’t supply a product where you have no control over consistency and can’t guarantee that the colours which were there when you created the photo (hence the colour checker passport) are the same as the finished image you see on your monitor (calibrator), and equally importantly the client will see on theirs and publish in their magazine.
That’s why things like the i1 Display Pro don’t just measure in one place, they measure in multiple zones, they also measure flare at 12in from the screen, they also measure ambient light, create multiple colour profiles, and then constantly adjust the values on the fly based on those ambient light levels.
[QUOTE=JBRAA;513620] Many hardware sites are so close with PR firms, that they dont do their job properly, just like in the game review world.
Most tech forums are filled with teens (and older people) just claiming they know stuff, from reading and repeating without own experience = Info from 2006 is repeated over and over, into the future, becoming pure garbage info since its not true any more / old info.
Go a head and lol, after you buy a 700 screen in 2014, and a cheap monitor from 2007 will beat it, in most ways, but not all.
LED IPS is **** when it comes to viewing angles due to LED IPS glow + reflex filters from hell[/QUOTE]
True, but not all are created equally. Just because Fred Smith’s blog talks nonsense, it doesn’t mean everyone’s does.
Thank you, I will.
Not all monitors are created equally either. Just because something is new it doesn’t automatically mean it’s better, that’s true, At the same time you can pay £1000 for a modern monitor and find better reproduction at one half the price, but if you think you have a cheap (or even expensive) monitor from 2007 that is currently performing wonderfully and giving accurate colour, contrast, etc reproduction, then i would say you’re deluded. 8 years of life alone, will have reduced its performance to being a shadow of what it once was. npi. And to go back to the original point, irrespective of that, you can have the best monitor ever made in the whole history of monitor making, and if you haven’t calibrated it, then it ain’t worth Jack.
