Tom's Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP Review

[wobble]

I am confused by Tom's review of the Dell 2001FP in the "NEC and LaCie Lead On Professional LCD Gear" article posted on July 6, 2005. It states "This monitor could be used for photo retouching but, let's just say, it's not the best. First off, you can't adjust the warmth of the colors to your taste: only presets of 6500K and 7500K are provided". When I viewed the 2001FP manual on the Dell site it shows that in the OSD you can adjust the color from normal to bluish or redish or custom. In custom you can adjust the values of red blue and green. Is this not the ability to adjust colors to your taste?

In any event I am trying to find a 19" or 20"(preferred) LCD for photo and Video editing. I thought that the S-IPS panels were the best for color accuracy and was about to get the Dell (or Viewsonic VP201 which uses the same panel but the Dell is less expensive). However Tom's review is not favorible. Can anyone suggest the best LCD for photo editing that is reasonibly priced and has a decent responce time. The NEC and LaCie's in the review are too expensive and too slow for me.
TIA

 

[mathesar]

The 2001FP has 3 color presets plus you're able to adjust the colors manualy (Red/Green/Blue) so im not sure why Tom says that either.

I ended up returning the 2001FP after 3 weeks of use, it was my first LCD purchase but as a gaming monitor it just didnt work out, the black level output is really poor (washed out) with games like Doom 3 / Thief / Splinter Cell / Riddick etc. S-IPS panels are known to not have the best black levels but in the 2001fp's case the low 400:1 contrast ratio hurt black levels even further.

Just wish I would've known all that before purchasing it.

But im sure someone wanting it for non-gaming purposes would be happy, It had a really good picture otherwise.