On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
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> They do lose some off axis, but so do the LCDs. Only CRTs and Plasmas work
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'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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