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http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/30-inch-cinema-display.htmOne of the review. They are well known for color accuracy demanded workloads. Of course expensive as well
If I am a serious photographer, I would get one of those as well.
Actually color accuracy is important for those who always do printing so the color on monitor will be same as printing.
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Beware reviews written by hackers, not photographers. I've read reviews where the techie reviewer thought it was a defect that the Apple Cinema displays have no color temperature adjustment. Apples adjust the color temperature via the computer and color profile, not at the display. This is a great plus, not an omission.
The only real color temperature of an LCD is the color of the backlight when the screen is full white. The Apple Cinema display is fantastic precisely because the native backlight color is the standard 6500K for photography and video. I read one review by a guy who was guessing about photography and lamented the lack of a 5000K setting. 5000K is the wrong setting, and if you want it you can still get it on every Mac by going to System Preferences > Displays > Color > Calibrate and making a new profile. You can create new profiles on every Mac even without a hardware color meter as I use.
CRTs adjust their native white points by varying the outputs of their three electron guns. An LCD alters its white point away from the native backlight's white point by dimming the red or blue segments, as well as green. This isn't a native change. It also lowers overall brightness because you can't make any of an LCD's R, G or B elements more transmissive than they are at full native white.
Most LCDs, but not the Apple Cinema Displays, vary color and brightness when viewed at different angles. Any change to the native white point looks awful on these displays since different parts of your screen are seen at different angles. If you've changed the white to be something else then white documents look terrible, since the white color changes from top to bottom! The Cinema display doesn't have this problem, even if you alter the white point, because it looks the same from every reasonable angle.
An LCD needs its native white point to match your desired white point, and the Apple Display does this marvelously.
no individual RGB adjustment is great; >300cd/m2 brightness is great; the LCD color/contrast/gamma shift is cause by user alteration to the LCD's native white...pardon me but what a load of BS.
This Ken guy really know nuts about LCD display.
for a pro, when color accuracy is critical, they will get
this. for serious photographer, any decent VA/IPS panel is good enough--provided they also own a monitor calibrator.
This post has been edited by limcc: Jul 30 2010, 07:45 PM