I can get used to any monitor over time but having spent the last 3 years with the JVC DT 24 variety I have had to rely heavily on the scopes. I have to be mindful of being square in front of the monitor etc... Darker scenes are much more difficult to work with on this and many other LCD monitors. In particular find it harder to gauge the gamma of an image on the JVC. Having watched a few of my shows at home I felt I was pulling the gamma down a bit too much. Also on a series I just finished where I got the Sony monitor after the first few episodes upon comparison I can see a difference in the way I color corrected. This was mostly due to the Plasma we had been using didn't handle highlights well so I would pull down the gain more to make up for the monitors blooming like quality. I've had a few rental Panny monitors that were certainly a step up from where they were a few years ago but none of them compare to the Sony. Detail and noise in the darker areas are generally lacking in the LCD monitors I've worked with. I look forward to seeing the Flanders monitor to see how it compares but all the editors and clients I've worked with love the Sony and I can attest that it has taken hours off my client screenings because the overall look is so much better than the LCD's we've been using in the past. I had the opportunity to work my first Sony monitor project on a documentary that was originally color corrected 4:4:4 and the image was stunning. I've only had my Sony a few months so I don't know how much the drift issue will be in the long haul but I think my next wishlist item will be a probe for that.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Inhofer <elists@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@...> wrote:
> >
> > Greg answered it perfectly. It's a trust issue. You know you are right
> > with the scopes, but the blacks never look right on LCDs. So a lot of time
> > is spent second guessing and hoping. :-(
> >
> Terry - are you trolling? ;-)
>
> I've got say - that's a pretty sweeping statement.
>
> While I've never had the pleasure of working a BVM OLED (I did spend a week
> on a PVM which I wouldn't recommend), I've seen my LCD-originated work in
> many places. I've never had reason to believe that any problems I saw could
> be traced back to the display technology of the reference monitor.
>
> If the grade is wrong it's usually my fault, not the monitor's (FSI
> LM-2461W).
>
> The other thing to keep in mind about black levels... they are heavily
> effected by the general ambient light level in a room. Direct viewing
> displays shouldn't be used in a blacked out room (though that's how they
> are always demo'ed) for prolonged periods... for reasons that include eye
> strain.
>
> The normal raised ambient light levels when grading on these displays
> negate some (not all) of the OLED black-level advantage.
>
> - patrick
>
>
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