{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blogposting-js","path":"/blog/monitor_lcd","result":{"data":{"mdx":{"body":"function _extends() { _extends = Object.assign || function (target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = arguments[i]; for (var key in source) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) { target[key] = source[key]; } } } return target; }; return _extends.apply(this, arguments); }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutProperties(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded); var key, i; if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var sourceSymbolKeys = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(source); for (i = 0; i < sourceSymbolKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceSymbolKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; if (!Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable.call(source, key)) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } } return target; }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = {}; var sourceKeys = Object.keys(source); var key, i; for (i = 0; i < sourceKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } return target; }\n\n/* @jsxRuntime classic */\n\n/* @jsx mdx */\nvar _frontmatter = {\n  \"date\": \"2009-11-12T21:04:42.381Z\",\n  \"updated\": \"2009-11-12T21:04:42.381Z\",\n  \"type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"title\": \"I think I might need a new monitor sometime soon\",\n  \"entityId\": \"04dfae50-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionId\": \"04dfae51-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionNum\": 1,\n  \"tags\": {},\n  \"sidebar\": \"The problem, of course, is that you can't run the clock back. My old 21\\\" CRT that I should probably pitch at this point can only do 1280x1024 at a reasonable refresh rate... and that's just not good enough anymore.\",\n  \"description\": \"The last monitor I actually purchased was a 15\\\" Sony CRT sometime in the late nineties.  Since then, I've obtained progressively larger CRT displays, culminating with a 21\\\" Sony Trinitron, for free.  But now my most recent CRT is starting to act up...\"\n};\nvar layoutProps = {\n  _frontmatter: _frontmatter\n};\nvar MDXLayout = \"wrapper\";\nreturn function MDXContent(_ref) {\n  var components = _ref.components,\n      props = _objectWithoutProperties(_ref, [\"components\"]);\n\n  return mdx(MDXLayout, _extends({}, layoutProps, props, {\n    components: components,\n    mdxType: \"MDXLayout\"\n  }), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The last monitor I actually purchased was a 15\\u201D Sony CRT sometime in the late nineties. Since then, I\\u2019ve obtained progressively larger CRT displays, culminating with a 21\\u201D Sony Trinitron, for free. I remember, around 2000, meeting a girl who had a funky LCD monitor. I looked at it, compared it to a CRT, and wondered why the heck people were so gonzo over them. They were more expensive than a CRT and had awful image quality. The problem is that my 21\\u201D CRT is starting to get flaky, where the main symptom is that the blacks are only as black as an ancient LCD. But it\\u2019s not all of the time, it\\u2019s just that the time when I feel like editing a batch of pictures and the time that the CRT is working right aren\\u2019t aligning properly anymore.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I\\u2019m stingy, but I also accept that sometimes you can\\u2019t work around stuff forever\\u2026 and this is taking some of the fun out of Photography for me. Clearly, it\\u2019s better to kick over some money into the savings account now such that when the monitor finally goes from annoying to useless, it won\\u2019t do nasty things to the household budget.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Except I\\u2019m not sure how much money I\\u2019m really talking about. See, I\\u2019ve missed out on a lot of degenerate LCD designs over the years, but I\\u2019ve also not been paying attention, so I\\u2019m not actually sure what\\u2019s \\u201Cgood enough\\u201D. A few years ago, there was a series of articles that basically stated that people at places like Pixar were still unimpressed with LCDs so had a warehouse filled with the last batch of Sony 21\\u201D Trinitrons. I\\u2019m not sure if this is still the case. I do see some fairly inexpensive large displays on newegg and wonder which ones would fit the bill.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Clearly, I do not need a pre-press editing station with finely-tuned accuracy and a display shield. Nor do I especially want to spend that kind of money.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I do know that my office display is an HP L2465 and that it\\u2019s not objectionable, but I\\u2019m also not trying to edit on my work machine. Basic requirements are that I get a display with blacks that are black (measured in absolutes, not marketing BS) , a decent reaction time (also measured in absolutes, not marketing BS), and good color fidelity (also measured in absolutes, not marketing BS).\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I\\u2019m aware that some displays don\\u2019t actually break out all 8 bits of each color channel, which allows the display to do better on certain specifications at the cost of reduced color fidelity. I\\u2019m sorry, LCD makers, but I remember the days of 16 bit Hi-color and do not want to return to those days.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"So\\u2026 overall, I\\u2019m not sure exactly what I can get away with. Most of the good-color-fidelity displays have a longer reaction time\\u2026 but I\\u2019m not a gamer, so as long as it can play and edit video properly, it\\u2019s fine with me.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Thoughts, lazyweb?\"));\n}\n;\nMDXContent.isMDXComponent = true;","id":"1cd8c9c2-4d09-5354-9f5a-18e769bc1cd9","fields":{"sidebar":"<p>The problem, of course, is that you can't run the clock back. My old 21\" CRT that I should probably pitch at this point can only do 1280x1024 at a reasonable refresh rate... and that's just not good enough anymore.</p>\n"},"frontmatter":{"date":"November 12, 2009","title":"I think I might need a new monitor sometime soon","type":"BlogPosting","description":"The last monitor I actually purchased was a 15\" Sony CRT sometime in the late nineties.  Since then, I've obtained progressively larger CRT displays, culminating with a 21\" Sony Trinitron, for free.  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