Digital BW, The Print

My 2¢...I've heard great things about both monitors, and have 
personally experienced great things with the LaCie Blue as a 
professional retoucher. I have had one for several years without 
noticeable change in color (of course I keep it calibrated, but even 
then it doesn't change much visually). The LaCie has been by far the 
best investment in monitors I have tried compared to previous monitors 
over the last 15 years. SuperMac, Radius, Phillips Brilliance, a cheap 
Sony, lots of clients' Sonys of medium range cost, Apple monitors both 
LCD and CRT, Barco... not a single one of them has paid off as well as 
the LaCie in terms of quality over lifetime per dollar invested. Unless 
you either have extremely fine close up vision and can tolerate looking 
at tiny type at maximum monitor resolution, or don't use palettes much, 
the 19 is going to be a little small. It all depends on your work 
habits of course.

If you choose the LaCie, you can buy their dedicated puck or not, or so 
I have been told, to use for calibration. Most monitor 
calibrators/software on the market now will do just as good a job, 
apparently, and be available for use on non-LaCie monitors as well.
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The LCDs are very seductive, but I still find them to be less 
predictable with their extreme 400 or 800:1 contrast ratios... you need 
to "dumb" them down to D65 from 9300K and reduce their contrast levels 
noticeably if you want to work in color as well as B&W. They are 
wonderful monitors for anything besides critical monitor-to-print 
matching; still I know a number of pros who use them happily despite 
that slowly dwindling consensus, mostly because of their ease on the 
eyestrain quotient during long working hours. Something to consider, 
although I am sending my LCD back at the end of its lease because it 
ended up going back in the box and waiting for the lease to run out (I 
hate leases for this very reason).

GB

> Message: 10
>    Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 12:04:48 -0700 (PDT)
>    From: guy washburn <guido02474@...>
> Subject: Re: Monitors
>
> See if you can find some reviews before you jump on
> these...
>
> Guy
> --- Stephen M Martin <steve@...> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Looks like the 19 is pretty nice as well.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark Savoia" <mark@...>
>> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Monitors
>>
>>
>> Check out the LaCie 22 Blue.
>> Mark
>>
>> On May 4, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Stephen M Martin wrote:
>>
>>> I am about to install a new computer dedicated to
>> Photoshop, IP, etc.
>>> With all the monitors out there, I am looking for
>> recommendations as
>>> to which is best. I am considering the Sony
>> Artisan-or whatever it's
>>> called now-and it's about $1,700 which is doable
>> but, if there is <snip>