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Addison Mauldin
I can't afford an LCD, and just bought a Lacie Electron blue 19" IV. I've only had it hooked up for a few days, and really have no opinions yet. When I have my new lighting in my computer room stabilized, I'll have an opinion. In the meantime, it's calibrated with a Monaco Optix, and I'm not sure I'm pleased with the colors in the prints just yet, but they do seem closer than they were with my old Monitor that came with an old Dell computer.
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Gary
Will Fly for Food
Mitsubishi make the CRT for LaCie and have ceased production (Sony also), so LaCie will shortly have no more CRT monitors. Whatever turns your crank, but I find that being close to a 19" CRT fries your eyeballs. There are virtually no emissions from an LCD. The LaCie is virtually identical to the NEC/Mitsubishi similar model. I have an NEC LCD1765, which is great, but I covet the 24" Dell.
Skipper494.
I just got one and love it, I too am not so sure about lcd. I guess you know you can pick one up from them for $200 reurb at Lacie.com. Thats where I got mine. The image quality is stunning, not tried to do a lot of color matching just yet, but I am sure it will be fine as that is its strength.....
I just got one and love it, I too am not so sure about lcd. I
guess you know you can pick one up from them for $200 reurb at
Lacie.com. Thats where I got mine. The image quality is stunning,
not tried to do a lot of color matching just yet, but I am sure it
will be fine as that is its strength.....
I have this monitor and it has good colour and resolution, only problem is reading the text from this site, as you can't change the font size in IE. If you change the resolution you then will need to recalibrate it
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Pete Dyson
Does anyone use the superbright Picture mode in their post processing at all? I tried once and ended up with a very dark picture once I turned it off, but now that I'm thinking about it it may be good for saturation adjustments or somesuch.
Does anyone use the superbright Picture mode in their post
processing at all? I tried once and ended up with a very dark
picture once I turned it off, but now that I'm thinking about it it
may be good for saturation adjustments or somesuch.
I only use the SuperBright feature when watching movies. For picture editing, it's notoriously imprecise. The environment you edit your images in will make a huge impact on your final results, so always aim for indirect sunlight properly diffused (sheer curtains, whatever). Alternatively, save your image editing for after sunset (like some of us night-owls).
Now that I have my Full Spectrum 5500k light set up, and my LaCie calibrated with my Monaco Optix, my prints from my 2200 are coming out with green in the skin tones. Don't know what to attribute that to. Not sure I can blame that on the monitor, but wasn't getting that before. I've done a print head check and all is fine.
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The LaCie Photon 18 Blue, an 18" LCD flat panel display, has been added to the company's line of Electron Blue CRT monitors that have achieved a strong reputation in the graphics community. In addition to good color image reproduction, the 1280x1024 resolution, brilliance and sharpness, the Photon 18 Blue offers the digital photographer a level of critical image viewing advantageous to work in the digital darkroom. There's also an ergonomic bonus--the monitor can be rotated 90 for either portrait or landscape viewing, easily accommodating photo images made in either format.
It may not be immediately apparent and self-evident to a photographer just starting out doing digital darkroom image processing, but the quality of the results with computer processing is entirely dependent on what can be seen of the image on screen. Every action taken, from acquiring images with a scanner through adjusting them in Photoshop to printing them with an ink jet, rests entirely on how the image is perceived as it is displayed on screen. Adjustments to alter the image quality are made on a perceptual basis, and if your monitor displays little of what is in an image file you have little control over what will result. In essence, the more of what is displayed in the image data the more effectively and accurately a photographer can adjust the values to result in a desired quality of output. So my evaluation of this new graphics monitor, the LaCie Photon 18 Blue, was to determine any advantages it offers.
Working With The LaCie Photon 18 Blue LCD Display
The LaCie Photon 18 Blue supports both analog and digital output from either a PC Windows or Macintosh computer graphics card. It is easy to install and set up, but differs enough from the typical CRT that the instructions should be read and followed precisely. In addition, there is software which must be installed to facilitate rotating the monitor from landscape to portrait mode and back. Finally, the optimum resolution for this monitor is 1280x1024 pixels, so it is advisable to be sure your computer provides sufficient graphics card performance support for this resolution at a True Color setting of 16 million colors. If necessary, you should upgrade by either adding memory to your graphics card or installing one which will support the optimum resolution and color depth. In this regard, both my Windows 2000 machine with a Matrox Millennium G400 Dual graphics card as well as my older Macintosh G3 provided good support and effective performance for the Photon 18 Blue display.
I began getting acquainted with the Photon 18 Blue by installing it on my Windows machine first. I did this to take advantage of the Matrox Dual monitor output running both my Sony CRT and the Photon 18 Blue side by side. My first challenge was to see if I could match the calibrated color balance of my CRT with the Photon 18 Blue.
Using the controls on the LaCie I was able to come close, but the preset color temperatures of 6500 or 7500 Kelvin with the Photon 18 Blue did not match, so I returned the LCD controls to their default settings. Then by switching output plugs, I used the Matrox software control to adjust the Photon 18 Blue and was able to achieve a match with the Sony CRT's hardware color temperature setting of 6500 Kelvin.
Then, with the Photon 18 Blue connected to the primary output channel of the Matrox card, I wanted to at least simulate calibration even though I had only a preliminary ICC/IM profile for the monitor. The finished version that would go out with models released for sale was not quite ready. I did this by first returning the Matrox software adjustments back to zero, and then opened Photoshop's Adobe Gamma and entered the same adjustment values in the setup provided. I then named and created a color management ICM profile through Adobe Gamma. This eyeball method of creating a monitor profile is less than ideal, but to date there are no monitor sensors made for calibrating LCDs. That's to come later. (By the way, if you have a monitor sensor, don't use it on an LCD! The suction cups will cause permanent damage!) When calibration tools are available for LCDs you will not need to re-calibrate frequently, as there are no phosphors in an LCD that deteriorate as they do in a CRT. The only significant and likely affect of aging on color performance may be from the LCD's backlight source, and that should be minor and slight over time.
I use my Windows PC as much for e-mail, writing, and business computing as I do for image processing. It did not take me very long to switch the Photon 18 Blue to portrait mode, as all kinds of typical computer activity is advantaged by a vertical screen format, even the mundane business of web browsing. You hardly ever have to scroll a page, especially at the high 1280x1024 resolution of this display.
Even if you never use the Photon 18 Blue for graphics applications, just reading text with this display is an incredible advantage because it is so crisp and distinct, with every letter clear and easily readable no matter how small the font size. Other computer uses which are at least collateral to photographic image processing, like using a DTP application (Adobe PageMaker in my case) to create documents that include photos is also enhanced by the LaCie display. Again, the high resolution combined with extreme sharpness and screen image brilliance makes aligning type on a page, or placing an image inside a frame, easier and more precise.
Digital Darkroom Applications
Before I got too attached to using the Photon 18 Blue for everyday stuff, I moved it to my Mac to do some work more within the realm of the digital darkroom. But before anything else, I repeated the calibration and profiling of the monitor using Adobe Gamma and set the profile in the Colorsync setup. I then began by making scans of a selection of slides made with different films and with images of many unrelated subjects until I'd filled a couple of CDs. The scanning experience was enhanced by the clear, brilliant quality of the display readily responding to changes I input to adjust the pre-scan. Whether this actually resulted in scans that were true to what was perceptually intended had to wait until I burned CDs and opened the images on my other Mac, which I now use for most of my image editing. Photoshop color management is set up the same with both of my Macs using the Adobe RGB 1998 workspace, so theoretically the image quality in the scans should appear the same. That is just what I discovered, other than a slight hue shift which I attribute to the crude "eyeball" monitor profile I had created for the Photon 18 Blue.