This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Avid Color panel vs. Tangent for Resolve

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Avid Color panel vs. Tangent for Resolve

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Jeff Kreines - Kinetta <jeff@kinetta.com>wrote:

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Heh.

Since you asked directly...

I dig the FSI LCDs. For a small room with a few clients, the viewing angle
is great (if everyone is seated).

I recommend them for two reasons:

1. I love their panels. Tons of functionality at a the pricing of the old
PVM SMPTE-C phosphor CRTs (with SDI option). Including multiple SDI inputs,
tons of overlays, many waveform displays, audio, gamut alarm (still
figuring out if it's accurate enough for QC), on-demand factory
recalibration, auto-switching for just about any Frame Size and Format I
throw at it.

2. They are an official Sponsor of my weekly color grading newsletter. And
I love them for that. They got on-board after my first year and have been
solid supporters ever since. The thing is... if I wasn't using their panel
professionally I wouldn't have them as a sponsor. It's a case of eating the
food I sell.

The Sony OLED is tempting at nearly the same price point of FSI's 2461. But
it's viewing sweet spot is too narrow for my uses. And the warranty isn't
nearly as compelling as Sony's BVM OLED warranty.

That's my .02. Unlike surfaces, I tend to pick a monitor and stick with it
until the technology gets overtaken - so on monitors I don't have quite the
broad range of experience as I'd like.

- patrick

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