Grey strip for Monitor test- if your monitor is calibrated, you should to be able to distinguish all 20 grays. I can't.
I bought Dell ST2310 23 Inch Full HD Widescreen Monitor for $169.00. It is a pretty good monitor and I have to say I got a great deal on it (Market value is supposedly $229.99). But, I am not happy with it. No matter how I set my color/balance and calibration (from System Preferences -> Displays -> Color), I’d lose some color details. When I do PhotoShop work on this monitor (and I did spend fortune buying my MacPro, and Adobe CS…) and looking at the image with my other computers or computer at work, the is always slightly off, such as losing detail or washed out or dark is too dark too quickly (therefore can’t see the subtle color changes), or worse, I thought I was fading it to white but it was actually not white so the extended background have white box and looks really bad… This has been bothering me for a while now, and more I spend time with this new monitor, I notice little things, like white color text on black background is very hard to read on this monitor etc. This and especially the latest trends in web design is very subtle drop shadow and patterns or gradients that you may or may not notice at a glance.
Sure I would love to have bought Apple LED Cinema Display (24″ flat panel). While I can’t spend $900 on a monitor, me totally going opposite by going waaay cheap, and buying cheapest possible monitor was a stupid move. In Japanese, Yasumono Gai No Zeni Unshinai (Buyer of cheap things, loser of money) or in English, penny wise and pound foolish. Yep, that is me.
So, to compensate for this my self invited bad situation, I am struggling to try to improve accuracy of the monitor. Here are some of the links that I found (sort of) useful.
- Color Correcting Digital Boutique Services — www.gballard.net
- Bryce Alive Quick Guide to Monitor Calibration
- Adjusting your monitor ‘by eye’
- Also by watching this YouTube video, I learned that there is an “Expert Mode” option in the first page page when you select the Calibrate option, which gives you more choices.
DISPLAY
Panel Size:
23″
Aspect Ratio
Widescreen (16:9)
Panel Type:
TN – Twisted Nematic
Optimal Resolution:
1920 x 1080 at 60Hz
Contrast Ratio:
Dynamic Contrast Ratio 50000:1 (max)
Brightness:
250 cd/m2 (typical)
Response Time:
5ms
Viewing Angle
(160 vertical / 160 horizontal)
Color Support:
16.7 million colors
Pixel Pitch:
0.266 mm
Display Type
Anti-glare
Device Type
Full HD Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
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