Depends on the client :)
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
>
> The clients watch our plasmas. I don't want someone sitting on my lap while I grade on a 24" monitor. :-0
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Inhofer <elists@> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@> wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > They do lose some off axis, but so do the LCDs. Only CRTs and Plasmas work
> > > well off axis.
> > >
> > 'Some off axis'?
> >
> > From comments of trusted colorist peers who are grading with these monitors
> > regularly - the Sony OLED 'sweet spot' is so narrow that reaching for a box
> > of tissues throws off the color. If you're grading with an OLED and not
> > grading with a second calibrated monitor for the client then you're not
> > grading with clients in the room.
> >
> > LCDs - as a technology - can suffer from the same narrow sweet spot. But
> > it varies widely by brand.
> >
> > One reason I like the FSI that I'm using is it's wide viewing angle. Is it
> > the 180 degrees of a plasma? No. But who the hell puts clients that far
> > off-axis? 70 degrees to either side of center? Yup. That's about the edge
> > of it... and as far off-center as I'm likely to place a client (for a room
> > that is on the small-ish size - which is the only room size where you'd get
> > away using a 24" monitor for both the colorist and client).
> >
> > Of course, I'd love the rich blacks of the OLEDs. If the viewing angle
> > issue gets solved I'll be all over them.
> >
> > To me, the question of OLED or not is simple: Do you need clients to
> > evaluate from the same monitor as the colorist? If yes, then OLED is out of
> > the picture.
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
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