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Hi, I´m looking to buy a new lcd/tft monitor and have my mind set on a
dell 2407wfp Wide-Screen model. I was wondering is anyone of you is using it,
I would like to hear how are you satisfied?
but I´m open to suggestions about simmilar type of monitor.
I do primarily 3d, but very often some graphics for print so colors are very important

please give your opinions and advices, I´m totaly lost in the sea of monitors
and have no experience with lcd/tft. used to old crt_s

here is the link for the dell:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... u=320-4335

I use HP LP2465 and i am very happy!!! And price is just super low... At least in Europe...

kizo,

I am in a similar situation. I do a lot of food product presentaion images. I do the 3D work on a PC and take the image over to a Mac for color correction and output for print.

I was using a LaCie 22 III and switching it back and forth between machines but it's 5 years old and just quit an me in the middle of a large project last month. I bought a 23" Mac HD monitor the same day. I would have gotten the same Dell you are thinking about but needed one immediately.

The Dell monitors are great, lots of bells and whistles as far as hook up goes and the resolution and color is very good. I believe my son has the model you are thinking about getting and he loves it. He runs both a PC and Mac through it. If you do color correction for print by the numbers it really doesn't matter if the monitor is calibratable or not...if however, you color correct visually that's a different story. I wouldn't trust any monitor at all and go strictly by the numbers. I am going to pickup a second LCD for the Mac...probably a 19" Samsung they are going for about $300.

Cheers, Ron

I've got the 19" Samsung [930BF 4ms delay] and it's a real peach.........I'd recommend it any day of the week.

thanks on a quick response
ill have to look at the samsungs, but HP products/support i dont like at all so will skip that one

RonB can you tell me how is the contrast of the dell your son is using.Or generally how important is the contrast ratio ex. 1000:1
browsing the net i foun comments that the contrast is too strong and cant be adjusted
thx

Hi,

I had the Samsung 24" for a while and the image quality was disappointing but now i have the EIZO S2410W and this was really a good investment!

I'm not sure, but I think Dell monitors are made with samsung screens.

Fernando Tella wrote:I'm not sure, but I think Dell monitors are made with samsung screens.

Yep, that seems to be the case here...the only 3dLabs driver that works at full-res on my Dell 24" is the one for the Samsung 24"...

I have a dual monitor setup- 1 HP and one Samsung and the samsung has a much better Color Gamut. The picture quality on the HP is great but it is impossible to calibrate for color.

I read somewhere that Dell and Apple both buy their screens from Philips, and are the best choice.

We have a lot of 24" Samsungs here in the office and the only complaint is that the stands are weak and starting to sag forward.

glebe digital wrote:I've got the 19" Samsung [930BF 4ms delay] and it's a real peach.........I'd recommend it any day of the week.

Well, the reviews look good, and your recommendation weighed heavily.
So I just ordered one for $219 USD.
I was just before buying some other Samsung monitor.
Thanks for the post Glebe.

glypticmax wrote:

glebe digital wrote:I've got the 19" Samsung...

...I just ordered one for $219 USD.

Man...that hurts. I paid around $1000 each when I got two Samsung 19" monitors (they were really nice though ) just a few years ago...

Oh come on JD, I know you are crying all the way to the bank with what you made using those monitors.

Check out........

http://www.a2zcomp.com/buy.asp?REF=12&SKU=4765671

Samsung must be ready to make these look like sh-t. Why else would the price be so low.........

Wanna buy an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU? Cheap.......

JDHill wrote:I paid around $1000 each when I got two Samsung 19" monitors

...and the max supported resolution is ?

tom wrote:

JDHill wrote:I paid around $1000 each when I got two Samsung 19" monitors

...and the max supported resolution is ?

I think its 1280x1000.

Edit: Here's the blig about it.

http://www.samsung.com/Products/Monitor ... ifications

$219!!??!! That's half what I paid six months ago.
For that price I may get another for my other box!