Monitors Wide or not?
Hello, I am quite new here but I like this community, you are doing a great job guys (and girls off course)! Now I have a question, I am about to buy (a) new monitor(s). What do you guys suggest for using it for modeling and texturing? 2 smaller is better than 1 bigger? What about wide? Lots of 22" are wide and just as expensive as 20" normal.
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Dual monitors can be useful if you like to keep all of your tool palettes on the second screen, but aren't significantly better than a single widescreen. Personally, I just switched from a pair of 17" 4:3 monitors to a single 23" widescreen and am plenty happy with the result.
At home: One Dell 24-inch widescreen. AWESOME!
At work: Two 19" 4:3 CRT monitors. YUCK!
At home: One Dell 24-inch widescreen. AWESOME!
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Same here, another Dell 24 inch at work (unfortunately), it's brilliant! Far better then the two 19 inch ones I used to have.
mind you, they are a bastard to calibrate. I use one for photoshop and one for max.
If you plan on playing games too, you might just want the one widescreen.
Working on getting rid of my 19" wide and getting a dual 22" wide setup.
-caseyjones
I'd pick widescreen 9/10 times. Widescreen is just so much nicer. Especially anytime you are using a timeline which I do on a daily basis. There are few occasions where I wish I had duals, but never enough for me to want to trade in.
24" widescreen is the perfect size imho, and it's what I use now. I've had a 30", and it's nice to show off with, but it's just way too big. It's like staring into the sun.
That said, widescreen is great as theny ou can expand the toolbar on the right in max so it has everything displayed and still have more 2d real estate for the actual work too.
I have a 24inch widescreen lcd and 24 inch regular crt at work. At home I have a 30inch wide lcd and 24 inch crt.
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-caseyjones
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and a third ,crt, for ref\movie\dl and color thingy, like ror said.
hehe.
22" wide main LCD and 19" CRT
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Same here.
Photoshop on the CRT with the pallets extended off to the main widescreen. Max on the Widescreen with its floating pallets extended onto the CRT. When you switch apps the pallets for the other hide behind the current app. Max is on the wide because color doesn't matter as much and extending the right side tool pallet one row is VERY nice.
I'm also left handed so my tablet sits to the left of my keyboard, right under the CRT monitor. Mouse in the standard position to the right of the keyboard. The computer lab nazis always freaked out when I started moving mice around so I learned to be a righty mouser like everyone else.
At home I just have two 19" CRT's. I don't spend that much time at that computer so I haven't seen it fit to upgrade to a widescreen.
And don't forget a decent multimonitor app; I find UltraMon is worth the money...one hotkey and your mouse cursor is on the other monitor. Things like that are really convenient.
Wide screen is great, secondary I use for misc crap like forums, reference and emails etc.
All I got is an old 19" crt.
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Also looking to buy a new wacom, now having a small volito A6. So I'd like to sync them to the new screens I'm going to buy. Only thing is there is no wacom wide for A4, A5 wide seems a little small and a3 wide seems a little big. Does dual wide work pleasantly or is that like too much? It seems like two normals is already really wide combined.
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matter of taste, i guess. 2 monitors and one tablet feels awkward to me. you could buy an A4 and restrict the active surface to match the overal aspect ratio of your combined screens. not sure if an A5 wide is bigger than that?
or, you could restrict your tablet to one screen at a time and switch via utility/hotkey between them.
i prefer it simple - one screen only. and at work, all i have the second one for is to dump outlook, reference material and some rarely used ps palettes onto it. oh, and an episode of "24" or whatever floats around at the time.
- BoBo
I will have to check in a store how the 22" inch TN-panels look, else I'm going with 20" either wide or normal.
Anyone has any experience with wacom A5 wide, A4, or A3 wide?
1680x1050 I believe.
It's like a whole new computer. I shrugged off the monitor for so long just because it didn't seem like a priority. I can't even imagine how I put up with that old hunk of crap.
Wide is awesome for modelling, but there is a really nice Samsung that does 1600x1280 with 1000:1 contrast and 2ms response and it's like 300 bucks at best buy. THAT monitor would be really slick for doing art and is the only monitor on the market that ISN'T wide that's even worth considering in my opinion.
(I don't work for Samsung or anything, but I'm really impressed. The housing is somewhat cheap, but they make up for it with the screen.)
I have seen and worked with samsungs before, for me it's a nono-brand, only the most crap TN-panels with 10 degrees viewing angle, that's right, even sitting exactly in the middle and not moving your head is bad already.
Perhaps you mean this one: http://www.behardware.com/articles/654-1/xl20-samsung-s-1rst-lcd-led.html
that does look quite good, but isn't close to the 300 bucks.
I am inclined to go with two 22" but man look at the viewing angles
http://www.behardware.com/articles/647-5...-2-to-5-ms.html
I'm digging the IPS ones, the dell and LG ones, dell because it's good colour rendering and good ergonomics, and LG because it's a lot cheaper, though the colours being off is a bad thing.
http://www.behardware.com/articles/619-17/updated-survey-13-lcd-20-5-6-8-16-ms.html
-caseyjones
Just ordered a 2407WFP 24" UltraSharp widescreen from Dell...
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Dell once in a while drastically lowers the price for its screens - next time they do that I'll get myself a 2407WFP too.
at Best Buy (ugh) for 260$. It's nice and bright and has a 2000:1 contrast with 2ms response. It is far beyond even the CRT I was using and I recommend it highly if you are on a budget and don't mind not using widescreen.
//Edit - Oooops! Wrong link. Corrected.
I've thought about a wide monitor, but doesn't that make everything wider and squatter looking, and not give an accurate picture of what you're doing?
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Widescreen monitors don't display in 4:3 aspect ratio like CRT monitors, so you won't get any squashing. Their display is at 16:9 or 16:10.
It will only look squashed if you set the desktop res to a 4:3 resolution (ie. 800X600, 1280X1024, etc). But if you use the native resolution of the monitor (my current one is 1440X900) it will be fine. Just means you have to scroll down more :P
That probably didn't make any sense
-caseyjones
http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/30/samsungs-new-2ms-lcd-displays/