Monitor to use with lightroom: I have recently subscribed to light room and am looking for advise on which moderately priced monitor I should purchase for my PC. I am trying to insure...

Mike Holmes Loc: The Villages Fl

I have recently subscribed to light room and am looking for advise on which moderately priced monitor I should purchase for my PC. I am trying to insure the best way to evaluate changes I am making in light room. I have tried "Search" and could not find an answer to this question. Thanks!!

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

Bigger is better. I use a Dell 27 inch with my PC

LenCreate

I agree with warrior that bigger is better, but proper calibration of any monitor is even more important for it to show colors accurately. X-Rite and Datacolor make reasonably priced calibration devices.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

and a calibration tool such as Datacolor produces.
--Bob

warrior wrote:

Bigger is better. I use a Dell 27 inch with my PC

jccash Loc: Longwood, Florida

Mike Holmes wrote:

I have recently subscribed to light room and am looking for advise on which moderately priced monitor I should purchase for my PC. I am trying to insure the best way to evaluate changes I am making in light room. I have tried "Search" and could not find an answer to this question. Thanks!!

Get a monitor that can match the full resolution of the output of your computer. As large as you can manage. 27 inches at least.

johntaylor333

Mike Holmes wrote:

I have recently subscribed to light room and am looking for advise on which moderately priced monitor I should purchase for my PC. I am trying to insure the best way to evaluate changes I am making in light room. I have tried "Search" and could not find an answer to this question. Thanks!!

Bigger is indeed better and so is 4k. You can get a good (Samsung, Dell or LG) 4k 28" monitor for a few $100. I use a 32" Dell Professional Series 4K monitor (very expensive) and a Samsung 28" 4k monitor (Very inexpensive at Costco and elsewhere). Calibrate both with Spyder 4 Elite. This gives my big monitor almost the whole image at 1:1 - very useful

gorgehiker Loc: Lexington, Ky

I use a good laptop connected to a second 27 inch monitor for editing. Should I calibrate both the laptop and the monitor? Should I match the laptop display to the second monitor? Sorry, but this calibration stuff is very confusing to me!

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Mike Holmes wrote:

I have recently subscribed to light room and am looking for advise on which moderately priced monitor I should purchase for my PC. I am trying to insure the best way to evaluate changes I am making in light room. I have tried "Search" and could not find an answer to this question. Thanks!!

I like a pair of displays - LR does very nicely with two HD screens. When you combine the resolution of both, you end up getting 3940x1280, and you end up with fonts and text prompts that you can actually see without having to go to font scaling and other measures. I generally advise against 4K for most photo editing. And unless you have a very large table, 27" displays are generally too big. I also don't care for having to move things around to accommodate the image editing screen. Using a dual screen setup eliminates most of that. I will never go back to single screen editing.

Here is a great article for reference on what might work for you, with lots of pros and cons.

https://www.color-management-guide.com/how-to-choose-monitor-for-photography.html#taille

Mike Holmes Loc: The Villages Fl

Thanks Gene51, The attachment was GREAT. Lots of interesting info!!!!

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

29” Lg ultra wide ips. About $230 at Sams club.

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

Mike Holmes wrote:

I have recently subscribed to light room and am looking for advise on which moderately priced monitor I should purchase for my PC. I am trying to insure the best way to evaluate changes I am making in light room. I have tried "Search" and could not find an answer to this question. Thanks!!

I use LR and Photoshop in combination. Get a monitor that will reproduce at least the sRBG color profile and preferably the Adobe RGB profile along with a monitor calibrator such as a Spyder Pro+ that measures and adjusts BOTH your monitor's color profile and automatically adjusts your monitor's brightness for your rooms ambient light and to the industry standard. Do not shop price for a monitor. The low end monitors are not designed for the demands of professional and advanced amateur photographers. A large size helps (I use a 27" iMac), but you can use a quality laptop. Large multi-monitor setups and giant screens are expensive, but not necessary for most applications.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Mike Holmes wrote:

Thanks Gene51, The attachment was GREAT. Lots of interesting info!!!!

Glad it was helpful!

I would caution against using a Spyder device with a photo-editing quality Dell display - better to use an Xrite i1 Display Pro, because of DUCCS and the GPU programmable LUT. The last time I checked the Spyder software did not address this.

https://photographylife.com/how-to-calibrate-dell-wide-gamut-monitors

There is no way a $230 27" IPS display would ever be satisfactory for photo editing.

Strodav Loc: Houston, Tx

Have been looking for a new monitor as well. Doing a little research, it seems the Benq photo monitors are the way I'm going to go. They cover the AdobeRGB color space, which is wider than the more common srgb color space. Since I set my camera bodies to AdobeRGB, the color in my prints really pops, now I need a monitor that will show me what the camera sees and what my printer prints. I also recommend a calibration device from Xrite. Working in the graphic arts industry, I have been using their equipment for decades and have never been disappointed.

Mike Holmes Loc: The Villages Fl

How do you set your camera body to adobeRGB I have never heard of this?

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

warrior wrote:

Bigger is better. I use a Dell 27 inch with my PC

Yes plus calibration device