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Alison Frank

3 Years Ago

Do You Have A 4k Monitor?

Do you like your 4k monitor? Is it LCD or LED and what's the difference? What brand do you have?

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Mike Savad

3 Years Ago

i have a 2k and all the words are microscopic. i can't imagine how a 4k would look.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Becky Titus

3 Years Ago

I have an iMac, Retina 5K LED, 27-inch, late 2015... it's great, and it would be even greater if the hard drive was bigger :-)

 

Rick Berk

3 Years Ago

I bought a new BenQ back in October that I'm very happy with. It's a 2K monitor and covers 99% of Adobe RGB. It's a great monitor. I don't really see the need for a 4K monitor for my purposes, but the 99% Adobe RGB coverage is nice.

 

Alison Frank

3 Years Ago

RIck - thoughts on this one? I wanted one with built in speakers. I can't deal with too many wires/clutter.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/benq-designer-pd3200q-32-led-qhd-monitor-black/5713590.p?skuId=5713590

 

Alison Frank

3 Years Ago

Becky - that's an all in one, right?

 

Becky Titus

3 Years Ago

Yes, all in one. Wish I could afford one of those pro Macs... this is the next best thing. I have a 2nd monitor, too… Apple Cinema HD Display, 23 inch (1920x1200). It’s been working perfectly since 2008.

 

Damyon Verbo

3 Years Ago

Alison Frank I too have an iMac all in one computer and monitor. This model has a 27" 5120x2880 LED-backlit 16:9 widescreen IPS DCI-P3 "Retina 5K" display. Much better than my old iMac from 2007.

 

Bruce Bodden

3 Years Ago

Like they say about having too many megapixels with a fuzzy lens, anything clearer than my current monitor out-resolves my eyeballs.

 

Brian Wallace

3 Years Ago

@Becky Titus - I use a portable drive mainly to store my images on and reserve space on my PC hard drive. As a redundant backup, I put my best images on Flickr, Shutterfly, and ViewBug, not to mention Fine Art America.

 

Becky Titus

3 Years Ago

Hi Brian -

Yes, I use external drives, too… seven of them currently, some storage, some backups, rotating on- and off-site. I would like to use cloud backup/storage, too, but I can’t do that because of my HughesNet data limit.

 

Rick Berk

3 Years Ago

Allison- That one covers 100% sRGB but not the full Adobe RGB gamut. Otherwise, it's similar to mine, which is a 27" model. This is the one I have: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1176775-REG/benq_sw2700pt_27_photographer_monitor_with.html

I have it hooked to a Mac Mini.

 

Alison Frank

3 Years Ago

Thanks Rick and thanks everyone.

Sounds like the 4K monitor is nice but may not be worth the extra $.

 

Don Northup

3 Years Ago

The monitor you are looking at is a nice monitor. The monitor Rich has is an even better monitor. The resolution on the monitor you are looking at is WQHD/QHD 2560x1440. That's the same resolution I have on the 27" monitor in the middle you see in my three monitor setup below. Personally, I would buy a 4K only if I was going to buy a 32" monitor or larger as I would need to scale the resolution down for almost everything except photo and video editing as the text would be too small for my eyes.

AdobeRGB is nice for printing and the monitor you see pictured on the right does cover the full AdobeRGB gamut and it's probably 10 years old or older...purchased back in the day when AdobeRGB monitors were quite expensive. The center monitor is a fancy internally calibrated monitor to be precise with the sRGB colorspace which is what the display images here are and sRGB covers most of the web and many devices without issue. The 40" screen on the left is so I don't need to squint. ;)



FWIW, WQHD/QHD is a lot higher resolution than standard 1080p HD with 3.68 million pixels instead of 2.07 million pixels.

Cheers

 

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