Widely known for its so-called "professional displays,"
EIZO has unveiled a new flagship model that touts the ability to reproduce "nearly 100 percent" of the Adobe RGB color space, among other niceties. The 22.2-inch ColorEdge CG221 sports a 1,920 x 1,200 resolution, 16:10 widescreen aspect ratio, 400:1 contrast ratio, and comes equipped with EIZO's latest 12-bit lookup table with a literal smorgasbord of color tones. The monitor can be quickly calibrated using the bundled ColorNavigator software, but leaves you the responsibility of coughing up the dough for those pricey
calibration devices. While this LCD comes with every type of black level, brightness, white point, and gamma adjustment you can imagine, EIZO reportedly saves you the trouble by shipping the CG221 with pre-examined "factory settings" already in place; you'll also get EIZO's typical five year warranty and a nifty screen hood to fully "geek out" your ultra-precise display. While this eagle-eyed monitor is supposedly available right now, pricing deets aren't nearly as clear, but we're fairly certain this level of exactitude demands a pretty penny.
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Magus @ Aug 21st 2006 8:58AM
umm... Response Time 30 ms (typical) ?
does that make ghost trails on regualr mousemovements?
Vertigo @ Aug 21st 2006 9:19AM
More likely, they just aren't giving you embellished numbers like the non-pro displays do
Rob @ Aug 21st 2006 10:17AM
"400:1 contrast ratio" and "professional lcd display"? hahaha, com'on Eizo, you can do better than that.
Magus @ Aug 21st 2006 11:42AM
The pro displays use a more acurate way of testing the ms change from black to black. But i thought 15-20 was avg...
As for the low contrast ratio it makes perfect sense, backlights are the #1 reason for skewing colors. You can throw in as many corrections as you want but a crappy backlight or an overly bright one can make a detremental diference.
Brian Prince @ Aug 21st 2006 1:28PM
"Professional" doesn't mean "enthusiast" or "gamer"
These things are designed for gamut accuracy. They're for producing content, not consuming it. Enthusiast displays tend to overdrive both color saturation and contrast, to make movies and games appear "crisper" to average eyeballs. Great for watching movies, not so great for color-critical design work.
For an audio analogy: a matched pair of 75 watt bi-amped studio monitors is more suited to mixing audio than is a "500 watt" Aiwa mini-system with bass boost.
mmoo9 @ Aug 21st 2006 3:23PM
A 'literal' smorgasbord of colors you say? I can't say I could wrap my mind around the logistics of that.
Rusty @ Aug 21st 2006 9:23PM
We use the EFI Spectrophotometer ES-1000 which uses the
GretagMacbeth Eye-One analyzer. Pain in the butt to setup but once you get it set with your printer, sure does make WYSIWYG a snap. Those professional monitor are not about speed, but quality image. Running photoshop I don't think it would matter what the refresh rate of the pixels are, but how accurate the white to black ratio and color purity would be.
ZENPCS @ Aug 29th 2006 10:31AM
it turns out to be interesting.The comparisons done were clearly executed.