Friday, March 22, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: Mid-range grading monitors

 

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:
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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> > **
> >
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> > 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.
>
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