What do you think is the most ideal photography monitor?

So far I have been using a BenQ SW2700PT.

The colour is accurate, I use it for gaming such as overwatch and gets around 110-150 fps.
27 inch, and comes with the cables for apple extended monitor.

So what about you?
What gear do you use for your editing?
Or Does it even matter as you don't print?

How important is colour corrected monitor for the digital age?


Lots of question! Hope there is answers from everybody!

A few of my customers can attest that Dell UltraSharp PremierColor is the monitor for editing/graphics work. I've sold quite a number of Dell PremierColor monitors to photographers/graphic designers/2D and 3D designers. And I've personally used U3014 for 2 years plus before downgrading to U2715H, the color it produces is very different and vibrant because its pre-calibrated in the factory.

Downside of this monitor is the power consumption. Hopefully the U3017 will consume less power.

its a FACEPALM discussion...

i dont wan to be rude but lets get some fact straight.

i. my cpu/gpu can process the game and gave me 500fps, but my monitor are usually lock (check your monitor setting) at 60fps, it will not physically display up to 500fps.

ii. today's market monitor has been very hi tech, it produce 32bit colors, 10 million contrast, 100% srgb or 80-100%adobe. but those color can never be physically reproduce(printer only manage to print up to 60% of rgb color in CMYK mode). so how important is it that it can display that much color, so you can see all the color details?



so come to my next point, how many monitor in the market are actually Accurately calibrated? no matter how great their spec and and internet review, most people doesnt even compare their lcd before and after a proper calibration...

so what is a most ideal photography monitor? Any monitor that are tuned, calibrated, and refine by User.

iii. is color accuracy important?

most people are on social media on their mobile phone today, so most people will view image on their mobile, and to save battery life, most view at 50% or less brightness... hence color can never be accurate on their side. Phone like Samsung, Sony, has build in enchancer that boost the color reproduction for the display, sometimes over saturated, so does it still matters?

most laptop are cooler (wb) then lcd... and only a handful of laptop using IPS, so pushing backward or forward will have this 'bright and dark' effect... its hard to judge the color too. so does it still matters?

for me, my own opinion, as long as i do my part.... having my image on the right color... i should be fine. better then having your monitor displaying less red, more warm... then when you edit, naturally you add more red, and more blue WB.... you image may look good to you, but other people will see red avatar(blue-ish) image...

(need to get home and find the photos that one of my consign job, another photographer screw up all this photo because his laptop lcd is dmg and missing some color, but viewed on his laptop the color is perfect, but on phone and calibrated monitor it looked messed up.)

You should meet up an actual print master and let them tell you the importance and advantage of it.

Monitors like the SW2700PT is one such monitor.

Locked at 60Hz, not 60fps.

Framerate is still framerate. They are different things. Doesn't mean your monitor is 60Hz then you should be sticking to 60 fps.

i meet a few but obviously for those who visit printmasters wont be asking question like how important is color accuracy and i wouldnt spend 2k for the i1 colorimeter... also i have meet self claim print master who doesnt know a single thing about monitor calibration, he tell me his eye is the calibrator. (pun intended)

oh yea my typo mistake. what im trying to say is with the monitor refreshing at 60hz , the long explanation would be, at 60hz, with 500fps, you actually see screen tearing (or image tearing) hence vsync limits the tearing by merging the frames (via its own algorithm and timing) hence you only physically see 60 frame at a sec from your display.

Im using dell U2711 ips monitor... and calibrate with colormunki Display for even more accurate color. so far so good.

Is the calibrator calibrated?

You based in KL / PJ? I bring you to meet proper print master la.

Self jio can anot.

Yea.. I bought the i1 Colour Calibration thing and realised that the usual brightness we usually are accustomed to on monitor is not the right flow.

Hence printing photos, u end up thinking ehhhh why so dark...
after understanding the right colour and brightness, the print out is more "similar" to what you are looking at the screen..

Wonder how many photographers even bother with such things...i've been shooting for almost 8 years....only recently started to realised the importance of proper colour management..

I'm using HP LP2475w and I checked http://www.tftcentral.co.uk for the calibration settings.
That website is very useful since they have a collection of OSD settings for calibrated monitors.

I printed some 4R photos at a shop and the colors are the same as my monitors.
I guess that's an indication that my monitor is accurate enough.

I'm just a hobbyist though.

Can wan. I have my usual group that love to do prints.

Anyway back to topic. Print is something that many don't do.

If you have a print master handling your work, life is so much easier and they can do things you can't image - like printing it bigger than based on general rule of thumb and such.

To such people the color management capability of a monitor means a lot, it allows them to improve their craft.