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Originally Posted by dfarkas
I'd be curious to hear what the results of the test were when the monitors were calibrated to 100 cd2 brightness, not 160 or higher. Our Eizos are calibrated to 100 cd2 so that screen white matches paper white, for photographic printing applications. Offset printing pre-press shops usually calibrate to 80 cd2. Video work is a different beast, where higher brightness and contrast levels are more preferrable. We found that Apple Cinema Displays and Dell Ultrasharp monitors were unable to attain this brightness level. The lowest they would go was about 185 cd2. For printing, this just doesn't give an accurate result.
I haven't personally tried the NEC monitors yet, so I can't speak to their quality. I can say that I prefer the Eizo LCD monitors we are using now to the calibrated Barco CRT monitors from a few years ago. LCD monitors are just so much easier on the eyes and the geometry "adjusting" from CRTs is best forgotten.
David
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Unfortunately I can no longer look up such details, because I now work for a different company.
But I do plan on calibrating my NEC Spectraview 2090 to a lower brightness level in the next week or two. I'm getting ready to use the digital bromide pipeline at Metro (
Metro Imaging - Homepage) and I assume that they are operating around that brightness level (100cd2). I'll post my findings once I've done this.