Re: Which type of Monitor

"Peter" <peternew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

<snip>
> > http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum105/211.htm
> > http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-8CA-A5976C0-39455FB8-prod2
> > http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-8CA-A5976C0-39455FB8-prod2
> >
> > .. and lot more but I think we get the idea.  Or to me, right now most
> > average LCD may be ok for text or graphic displaying, but for close-up
> > retouching the large dot pitch (I read LCD doesn't use Dot Pitch but
you
> > know what I mean) still bother me quite a bit, and that's the only
reasons
> > why I am still using CRT even I really like the space saver of LCD.
> >
> >> I am not even talking about color
> >> > which I never tried to have any experience.
> >> >
> >> > I read some mentioned about the professional LCD which costs around
> >> > $3000-5000 for the 19-20" model which is too expensive.  And I read

> >> > some
> >> > mentions they are happy or happier with their LCD than CRT, but I
don't
> >> > know
> >> > how they use theirs.
> 
> 
> You may have a technical point, but the answer may well be in the eye of
the 
> user. I have a 21" Viewsonic on which I cannot see any dots. I blow the 
> image up to show pixels for the type of repair work you refer to and
have 
> not had that annoyance.
> During my trial period for the monitor, I compared it side, by side with
a 
> LaCie CRT and found no real difference, except for the ambient light 
> protection from the hood. For the difference in price I bought myself a
good 
> Spyder calibrator, had a hood fashioned and had enough left over for a
new 
> Nikkor 12-24 lens.

	I dunno, I can see screen full of Big Dots (metal screen, dot pitch) and
that's the only reason I am still using CRT.  Yup!  I have looked at
several
models of Sony including the one with option to rotate between
Landscape/Portrait, but I just can't seem to get over the BIG DOTS.

	And I wonder why many LCD users say they don't see those dots, some even
say LCD is even better than CRT ... and of course as you may read from
some
links above some people do see those dots (Dot Pitch) and mention they are
larger than CRT (.26 to .29 vs .21 to .25 average), and in one article it
mentions some high-end LCD has something like .15 dot pitch.

	And most of the time when I go to some computer store I often look at the
LCDs they have and I still see those clearly visible dots.  And it may be
one of the reasons I have never installed Photoshop on any of my laptop.
Hmmm I guess I may install CS3 on my newest laptop (Vista with 2GB memory)
to give the laptop a try see if I can get over those dot pitch.