[geeks] Plunge: NEC display on the way

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> I got tired of looking and ordered an NEC 2470 24 inch display today.
>>
>> It should arrive by Friday.
>
> Let us know how it works out  :)

Well, I have it now.

I thought only being 1920x1200 versus 1600x1200 wouldn't be a big  
deal, but it is.

This thing is huge.

I like it so far.

However, I still cannot color calibrate correctly.  It's a lot better  
than the Samsung, light years better, but it still won't quite go right.

I open the calibrator, and it is impossible to set brightness low  
enough to make the apple logo disappear, which is what you are  
supposed to do.

If I set brightness (which is actually black level) to the lowest,  
none of the following calibration steps are correct.

So, I compromised a bit... I dropped contrast to 70% nd put black  
level at 40%, and then the monitor calibrated almost perfectly.  Color  
images are much better, and match printed output a lot better now.

I then wen to some test pages and images they all look correct now.  I  
was never able to get that with the Samsung 204B's TN panel.

I guess what I really need is a colorimeter, but until I find one  
used, I'll deal with this.

One thing I've noticed is that this monitor's display quality and  
color is so much better than the older monitor, it shows all of the  
ugliness in your photos and even applications that don't have good  
color schemes.

I've not tried any games on it, just photo editors.

So far so good.

ASIDE:

Does anyone know how to tone down Leopard's window shadows?

With 10.5, Apple made the shadows on windows much deeper than they  
were on Tiger, to make the current window stand out a lot more.

They also base the opacity and darkness of the shadows on your desktop  
image.

It looks great if a window is over the desktop, but looks too  
pronounced/extreme when over a white or light colored window.

Anyone know how to turn it down a bit?

I know I'm probably the only one who doesn't like this... :/



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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com