Flat panel...not for games

[Doering]

I'm looking for a 17" flat panel display for use in a research lab to do graphics. A lot of the issues highlighted in these posts and articles are geared to gamers, but what we really need to do is make figures combining text, graphics, and photos, with brightness a plus for electron microscope images. Does anyone have any recommendations, I've gotten a bit lost trying to sort these out?

Thanks very much!!

 

[p05esto]

My first question is why only 17"? For grahpics work I'd say no less than a 19 or 20". You've got all those windows floating all over the place and that's just stressful on a small screen.

If you don't care about the refresh rate for games/movies then there are a bunch of nice panels out there. I'd read some reviews like here on TOMS. Some screens are great for graphics but not so hot for games. Grab one of those with no dead pixels.

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[Doering]

Thanks for the note. The reason for only 17" is that I have one monitor at this station already for all the 'windows floating all over the place', and wanted another for working on the actual figure. (I didn't want to pay for a larger one at this time since using two is fairly convenient and in combination plenty of space.) I picked 17" as a compromise since the prices aren't so different from smaller ones.

AS far as your suggestion, I did spend some time on the TOMS reviews and couldn't really come up with a clear favorite - maybe there isn't one? I wrote hoping for some specific suggestions from those who know!!

 

[peacescience]

I think any of this should do fine for your purposes,...
http://www6.tomshardware.com/display/20040413/lcd-08.html

as they keep balanced the color quality and the response time

...but sincerously if you are gonna use it for electron microscope display you should go for a really high resolution plus great color display and bigger than a 17".

Being an electron microscope images will be colorless and if im not on a mistake are grey scale pictures. so you need a display that makes the best possible difference between colors and with a very thin dot pitch.

Conclusion, at this time i do not think an lcd is best choice for that uses, max resolution per inch is low now in flat panels and colors are not too realistics, they even have dead pixels issues (OMG! KENNY WHAT´S THAT THING IN THE MOLECULE,... ERR? IT IS ONE OF OUR DEAD PIXELS 🙂)

The question is how hight in terms of picture quality you are looking the more serious you are doing in this lab the less i consider an lcd a choice.

you can use this to look for a monitor using every spec you wish like dot pitch or size:
http://designtechnica.shopping.com/xPP-Monitors

you will also find very expensive high resolution displays for scientific work even with 32bit color.

the question is again how much are you spending on the monitor?

...which microscope do you use a TEM or a SEM? 🙂 cu and ask again if you need but tell us the money you are gonna spend.



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