[macosx-unix] Color Precision, LCD display

[Pete Wright]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:46:54AM -0400, Isaac Levy wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> So I've been trying to track down a particular LaCie Blue CRT display  
> for a designer client of mine, and it seems they stopped making them  
> LONG ago.  This client does precision color work, and are accustomed  
> to the quality of the older high-end CRT's.
> 
> However, the market for high-end displays seems to have all gone to  
> LCD's- which freaks my client (and me) out- mostly with regard to  
> color fidelity.
> 
> Does anyone have the low-down, or perhaps some URLS to toss me, on  
> this topic?  Thanks!
> 

hey ike, you really can't do color accurate work with LCD's...atleast
that is general option in the film world.  Having said that...there are
several LCD's out there that attempt to fill this important niche.
There are some important issues I have seen with LCD's at the moment:

1) burn in
2) calibration
3) displaying black's correctly (we are yet to find a LCD that can
	display true black).

it's gotten so bad for us (Imageworks) that we have had to hire a full
time engineer to repair our Sony CRT's (replacing capacitors, boards
etc.) just to keep them alive.  And we are a sony company!  so, the current 
thinking in our world is that CRT's and Film are the only way we can
make colour accurate decisions.  In print, I really don't know what
folks are using these day's....

I have heard from various people that this may be a good source on
getting second hand Sony CRT's:

http://www.accurateit.com/details.asp?iid=203

let me know if you have any questions...


-p

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