A couple of caveats with this monitor and monitors in general as someone who's been searching for a monitor for both graphic design and photography. Never be excited for a monitor that's 100% SRGB, that's a limited color spectrum and unless you only are posting on the web, it's still not that great. Rec 709 and dci-p3 are NOT for photographers and color critical RGB work. The SW line is for photographers, and their version with good Adobe RGB is $1, 500.00. of course you can do work with it and if you go by color critical RGB numbers sure you'll be able to use it, but you may not be seeing the color as accurately. Therefore monitors like this are better for video production because that's what rec 709 is anyway. There's a UA-camr that is a ambassador for BenQ and even he acknowledged that there's just not a lot of options if you want a Adobe RGB focused monitor. Ironically, the better you have Adobe RGB, you'll cover most of the other spectrums anyway. If I remember correctly P3 liens a little bit more towards greens and less blues and some red. Obviously that's no good for photographers.
I agree with your statements however, ..... with a calibrated monitor even only with 100% SRGB, your photo's will come out beautiful when printed and I have never ever met somebody that said this is printed of a monitor that had only 100% SRGB. The monitor is only one part of the whole procedure. A good printer with good color profiles for the paper used is much more important. And don't get me started on lenses cause the people who moan the most shoot with shitty lenses. I have worked with a studio where they used Eizo monitors to get the best results, but also the printers were the best of brand and the images were also medium format cause they were printing for world famous museums. Since the average photographer, even the pro's, do not print for museums IMO this monitor will give a satisfying print results as long as printer/paper and other photography equipment are taken in consideration.
@@RS-Amsterdam The two fold problem is the lack of products for what used to be normal Adobe RGB based color gamuts with the industrys push towards video, + kind of what happened with hard drives where specs are hidden and lower spec are treated like they are amazing. With the industries push over to video editing based color profiles, Adobe RGB screens have dramatically suffered and are pretty much hard to find from any manufacturer. At most they will have one, some don't have any. 100% SRGB monitor is so basic it's almost crazy to push this as some amazing accomplishment. SRGB is essentially the bottom of the barrel in terms of color. Starting from a limited color space does none of your content any favors, especially as a photographer that is just the worst. It's essentially like editing the color space of JPEGs from back in the days. Yes high quality JPEGs still had a fair amount of color information but we have so much better available to us that that limitation is not ideal to say the least. What really bothered me is spending so much time looking and having to hunt through various websites and ask them any questions on what the RGB numbers were. Even Ben q, most of the monitors on their website don't tell you to RGB at all. It was very very frustrating. To be honest I just needed a screen that I knew was going to have a good standard color profile. I went with modest priced LG screen since they make most of Apple's panels. Sure was cheap, and RGB isn't where I needed to go, but at least it's not a model tilted towards video which is not helpful for photo editing.
What do you think of BenQ's PD2725U DesignVue?
I use this monitor and am super happy. Excellent price-performance ratio
I cant believe they include the cable with Thunderbolt 4 ❤
A couple of caveats with this monitor and monitors in general as someone who's been searching for a monitor for both graphic design and photography. Never be excited for a monitor that's 100% SRGB, that's a limited color spectrum and unless you only are posting on the web, it's still not that great.
Rec 709 and dci-p3 are NOT for photographers and color critical RGB work. The SW line is for photographers, and their version with good Adobe RGB is $1, 500.00. of course you can do work with it and if you go by color critical RGB numbers sure you'll be able to use it, but you may not be seeing the color as accurately. Therefore monitors like this are better for video production because that's what rec 709 is anyway.
There's a UA-camr that is a ambassador for BenQ and even he acknowledged that there's just not a lot of options if you want a Adobe RGB focused monitor.
Ironically, the better you have Adobe RGB, you'll cover most of the other spectrums anyway. If I remember correctly P3 liens a little bit more towards greens and less blues and some red. Obviously that's no good for photographers.
I agree with your statements however,
..... with a calibrated monitor even only with 100% SRGB, your photo's will come out beautiful when printed and I have never ever met somebody that said this is printed of a monitor that had only 100% SRGB.
The monitor is only one part of the whole procedure.
A good printer with good color profiles for the paper used is much more important.
And don't get me started on lenses cause the people who moan the most shoot with shitty lenses.
I have worked with a studio where they used Eizo monitors to get the best results, but also the printers were the best of brand and the images were also medium format cause they were printing for world famous museums.
Since the average photographer, even the pro's, do not print for museums IMO this monitor will give a satisfying print results as long as printer/paper and other photography equipment are taken in consideration.
@@RS-Amsterdam The two fold problem is the lack of products for what used to be normal Adobe RGB based color gamuts with the industrys push towards video, + kind of what happened with hard drives where specs are hidden and lower spec are treated like they are amazing. With the industries push over to video editing based color profiles, Adobe RGB screens have dramatically suffered and are pretty much hard to find from any manufacturer. At most they will have one, some don't have any.
100% SRGB monitor is so basic it's almost crazy to push this as some amazing accomplishment. SRGB is essentially the bottom of the barrel in terms of color. Starting from a limited color space does none of your content any favors, especially as a photographer that is just the worst. It's essentially like editing the color space of JPEGs from back in the days. Yes high quality JPEGs still had a fair amount of color information but we have so much better available to us that that limitation is not ideal to say the least.
What really bothered me is spending so much time looking and having to hunt through various websites and ask them any questions on what the RGB numbers were. Even Ben q, most of the monitors on their website don't tell you to RGB at all. It was very very frustrating.
To be honest I just needed a screen that I knew was going to have a good standard color profile. I went with modest priced LG screen since they make most of Apple's panels. Sure was cheap, and RGB isn't where I needed to go, but at least it's not a model tilted towards video which is not helpful for photo editing.
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8Bit + 2 FRC ....not true 10bit