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2005-07-01 by mkitei
I've been thinking of upgrading from my G4 to a G5 and the price difference between a tower plus a monitor and the imac is tempting. Has anyone used the imac G5. How does the lcd monitor compare to a Viewsonic or a LaCie crt type monitor. Speaking as a serious photographer and a concerned printer. Mike Kitei
2005-07-01 by Mark Savoia
It may look nice, but it will not be real to concerned printer. Stick with a CRT, IMO. Mark On Jul 1, 2005, at 4:01 PM, mkitei wrote: > I've been thinking of upgrading from my G4 to a G5 and the price > difference between a tower plus a monitor and the imac is tempting. > Has anyone used the imac G5. How does the lcd monitor compare to a > Viewsonic or a LaCie crt type monitor. Speaking as a serious > photographer and a concerned printer. > > Mike Kitei > > > > > Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other > resources as they are often being updated. > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint > > If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you > wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by > visiting this same page. > > Please follow these basic guidelines: > - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages > to keep them short. > - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or > flames. Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed > from the membership without notice. > - Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital > B&W printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be > removed from the membership. > - By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules > and guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the > group Owner and Moderators. See �Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines� > in the Files section: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/ > > BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE > PRINT YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE > �OWNER� AND �MODERATORS� OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL > NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, > CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, > DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER > INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE �OWNER� AND �MODERATORS� OF DIGITAL > BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF > SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE > THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO > OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR > CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO > GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE > PRINT YAHOO GROUP. > > > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > Visit your group "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint" on the web. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
2005-07-02 by bildedoodah
Mike, I have my 1-yr old 19 in Samsung SyncMaster and my 3 yr old Sony trinitron next to each other. The LCD has better contrast, and no flicker and is definitely better for browsing, word processing, spreadsheets and the like. You get better color accuracy and a larger color gamut on a CRT, (though LCD technology is closing the gap). AS in many things, depends on your needs, IMO. My serious photography is in B&W; color for family snapshots and vacation pics. In my case the LCD is perfectly adequate and I plan to replace the Sony eventually to reclaim some desk space. If your work is color-critical you probably need to stick with CRT for now. Bill Levine --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia <mark@c...> wrote:
> It may look nice, but it will not be real to concerned printer. Stick > with a CRT, IMO. > Mark > > On Jul 1, 2005, at 4:01 PM, mkitei wrote: > > > I've been thinking of upgrading from my G4 to a G5 and the price > > difference between a tower plus a monitor and the imac is tempting. > > Has anyone used the imac G5. How does the lcd monitor compare to a > > Viewsonic or a LaCie crt type monitor. Speaking as a serious > > photographer and a concerned printer. > > > > Mike Kitei > > > > > > > > > > Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other > > resources as they are often being updated. > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint > > > > If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you > > wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by > > visiting this same page. > > > > Please follow these basic guidelines: > > - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages > > to keep them short. > > - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or > > flames. Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed > > from the membership without notice. > > - Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital > > B&W printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be > > removed from the membership. > > - By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules > > and guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the > > group Owner and Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines" > > in the Files section: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/ > > > > BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE > > PRINT YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE > > "OWNER" AND "MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL > > NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, > > CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, > > DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER > > INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE "OWNER" AND "MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL > > BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF > > SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE > > THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO > > OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR > > CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO > > GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE > > PRINT YAHOO GROUP. > > > > > > > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > Visit your group "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint" on the web. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
2005-07-05 by Sam McCandless
At 8:01 PM +0000 7/1/05, mkitei wrote: >I've been thinking of upgrading from my G4 to a G5 and the price >difference between a tower plus a monitor and the imac is tempting. >Has anyone used the imac G5. How does the lcd monitor compare to a >Viewsonic or a LaCie crt type monitor. Speaking as a serious >photographer and a concerned printer. > >Mike Kitei I'm in the same situation, Mike. But I am not tempted by the iMac, although not because I think its LCD would not serve as well a CRT. In fact, I'm considering a combining a new (to me) G5 with a 17-inch Dell/Samsung CRT Photoshop "palette" monitor (at 1024 x 768 & 85Hz) and a 19" EIZO LCD image display which pivots. At 1280 x 1024 (or 1024 x 1280) a 19-inch LCD has an active display size of 376 x 301 mm / 14.8 x 11.9 inches. That would let me see full-size, whether it's oriented horizontally or vertically, the largest image I can comfortably mat and frame (at 16 x 20) in my small quarters. I _am_ tempted to use a 15" or 17" G4 PowerBook, instead of a G5 PowerMac, with a 19" EIZO LCD which pivots. I'm afraid a notebook might be too much slower due to its having slower processors (both CPU & GPU) and hard drives as well as less RAM. But I'm still tempted, because it would be so nice to have the PowerBook as a traveling companion for a digital camera, if I can ever decide which one to buy. And in any case, nice to have the notebook to use as for navigating via GPS on my road (and off-road) trips in the Southwest. Incidentally, it is easy to find a WinTel notebook with faster processors and hard drives. But not, as far as I can tell, with more RAM than a PowerBook. And without that gain too, I'm reluctant to consider giving up the Mac OS for Windows. Otherwise, I think it might be a good time to switch. In any case, I think it might be a good time to move from CRTs to LCDs, at home as well as abroad, for images, especially if you like to see portrait, as well as landscape photographs, in one relatively large piece. -- Sam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]