Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Thanks for your insight.

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Thanks, I’ll look into that model!

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Thanks, and great to hear about Dell support.

BebuLamar

The 4K would make some of the text too small but not the images. I wouldn't mind using the 4K (some people have problem) but color accuracy is always much more important when you do photo editing. Besides the other monitor still have very high resolution.

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Thanks, and great to hear about your monitor lasting 5 years and still going strong.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Get the one with the better color gamut. Review the specs and look for the percentage of the Adobe RGB color space. It should approach 100%. sRGB should always BE 100%.

Some general pointers on monitors:

> Avoid gaming monitors for photo editing. They are too bright and too contrasty!

> Color gamut is more important than resolution, once you get to Full HD 1920x1080 or better.

> Most monitors come out of the box set for *office* use, meaning the brightness is WAY too high for photo editing. If you do not calibrate them properly with a kit of hardware and software, your prints will not come close to matching your monitor. When calibrating with a colorimeter or spectrophotometer, start with these aims, if your software will let you:

Brightness 85 to 120 candelas per square meter (cd/m^2) (Photo labs use 105, typically.)

Black Point 0.5 cd/m^2

Gamma 2.2 (Mac or PC!)

Color Temperature 5800K or the software's recommendation. (It will vary with ambient light brightness if your puck has a sensor and the software reads the room light level.)

With these settings, your monitor and prints SHOULD be a close match, provided color management is enabled properly in your software.

If you print from software like Photoshop, let EITHER the software OR the driver manage color, but not both. Double profiling ruins your color.

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Good points. Thanks.

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Thanks for your feedback. Interesting about your comment on brightness. The SpyderLite5Elite calibration I’m using on my current monitor is telling me to get the brightness to 180 cd/m2, and I can only get it to 143, so it’s giving me a warning and preventing me from moving forward with the calibration. Datacolor SpyderLite tech support was telling me my monitor was too old!

You’re saying I should use 85-120 cd/m2. I’ll try that.

assman Loc: Grand Rapids, MI

I just bought the U2718Q. What an improvement! I bought it to go along with the new 4k windows 10 computer I put together. So nice. It also works very well with the std HD work computer I plug into it.

tankdonovan Loc: Tennessee

I have a HP E190i 19in monitor. It is a 5 to 4 ratio. It is HD 1024 x 1080. Print is very readable at that resolution. Color is outstanding. A lot of real state for a 19in. Has VGA DVI and DisplayPort hook-ups. I plan on getting another one so I can run 2.

I think you can`t go wrong on either Dell. Good brand!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yeah, the ambient light sensor in my Spyder5Pro is telling me to use 180 at 6500. If I do that, my prints come out too dark and too red.

What it amounts to is that your environment for photo editing should be dim. It should be gray. Your computer desktop should be gray. Room lighting should be very diffused — a 5000K 60W equivalent LED bulb bounced off the ceiling in a far corner behind your monitor is about right.

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Thanks.

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Thanks. How is it for PP?

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Thanks!