New Dell Ultrasharp 27" Ultra HD 5K Monitor announced
Sep 6, 2014 07:00:28 #
Dell's new monitor (available late this year) won't immediately affect the average UHH photographer, but it will ring some bells for those who currently edit images with monitors at the Eizo level of quality. And it points to where every professional graphic artist and image editing photographer will be in two or three years, followed relatively soon after by everyone who does serious image editing.
5120x2880 display pixels on a 27" monitor. That is 218 pixels per inch, or about twice what is now typical. The price will be $2500.
An image ready for printing on a 360 PPI Epson printer at 8x10 in Landscape mode, 2880x3600, can be viewed as a 100% crop and show the entire image on screen. Those who eschew "pixel peeping" will shudder at the thought, but it will make doing sharpening by inspection a vastly easier chore with more consistent results.
Technology on the move! Other manufacturers will no doubt follow with similar hardware soon enough, and the price will drop eventually to make large size 200+ pixel per inch monitors common. (I'm dreaming of a 360 PPI monitor that can exactly match my printers.)
5120x2880 display pixels on a 27" monitor. That is 218 pixels per inch, or about twice what is now typical. The price will be $2500.
An image ready for printing on a 360 PPI Epson printer at 8x10 in Landscape mode, 2880x3600, can be viewed as a 100% crop and show the entire image on screen. Those who eschew "pixel peeping" will shudder at the thought, but it will make doing sharpening by inspection a vastly easier chore with more consistent results.
Technology on the move! Other manufacturers will no doubt follow with similar hardware soon enough, and the price will drop eventually to make large size 200+ pixel per inch monitors common. (I'm dreaming of a 360 PPI monitor that can exactly match my printers.)
Sep 6, 2014 07:05:12 #
Apaflo wrote:
Dell's new monitor (available late this year) won'... (show quote)
That's probably not going to appear on my shopping list, but thanks for posting. It's nice to see advances being made in technology. They start out with high prices - like a $30,000 plasma TV - and eventually become available to the masses.
Sep 7, 2014 11:10:08 #
Mark7829
Loc: Calfornia
jerryc41 wrote:
That's probably not going to appear on my shopping list, but thanks for posting. It's nice to see advances being made in technology. They start out with high prices - like a $30,000 plasma TV - and eventually become available to the masses.
What it could mean is that the 2560 x 1600 will drop in price.
Sep 7, 2014 11:25:54 #
Mark7829 wrote:
What it could mean is that the 2560 x 1600 will drop in price.
In particular the high end models, which currently are just below that $2500 price of the new Dell monitor.
Sep 7, 2014 11:35:10 #
Apaflo wrote:
5120x2880 display pixels on a 27" monitor. That is 218 pixels per inch, or about twice what is now typical. The price will be $2500.
5120x2880 display pixels on a 27" monitor. That is 218 pixels per inch, or about twice what is now typical. The price will be $2500.
You can't use it with current video cards. Is there a suitable card in the near future?
Sep 7, 2014 11:49:32 #
joer wrote:
You can't use it with current video cards. Is there a suitable card in the near future?
Why can't it be used with current cards?
It requires two DisplayPort outputs, and apparently works the same as a dual monitor setup. Hence one card with two ports, or two separate cards each with one port are both viable configurations.
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