After 18 months of using a 17" flat screen monitor, I went back to a CRT monitor with a 21" trinitron tube 12 months ago, because I could not get the flat screeen properly balanced. Now acording to some of the guys in our camera club, flat screens have improved in the interveerening 2 1/2 yrs and they can be properly calibrated now, if you are prepared to buy a good one. 1 chap paid nearly £1000 for his
The bit that I struggled with was the shaddow & highlight detail - my prints didn't look like what I saw on screen , although the mid range colour balance and contrast was fairly good.
What calibration method, if any, is anyone using on their own monitor? I use Adobe gamma, which is OK but not that sophisticated - WYSIWYG is another package which enables you to judge by eye the white & black points and the separage RGB gammas. For accurate balancing/profiling you realy need a spyder