Screen Resolution?

Valentia

As a kind of follow on from elven's poll about picture pixel size I'd be interested to know what screen resolution people work at. I mean spending a fortune on gear and working at 800x600 is a bit pointless.

I work at 1680 x 1050 on a Dell 20" (which is too small BTW) Hoping to add a 24" as a second monitor someday. I'm not even sure "widescreen" at 20" is a good notion at all. My laptop resolution is greater but I can't remember and am too lazy to turn it on. It has a 17" screen.

quilmore

1600x1200 21" CRT at home
2x 1280x1024 17" (4:3) LCD at work, but in 1 month I'll be getting a 2208WFP at 1680x1050

Chochese

I mainly run on my 13" MacBook at 1280x800. We have a 30" mac display in the job and it's the business!

Valentia wrote: »

I mean spending a fortune on gear and working at 800x600 is a bit pointless.

Surely you don't buy all your gear just to post on Boards???

Valentia

quilmore wrote: »

but in 1 month I'll be getting a 2208WFP at 1680x1050

That's the same resolution as the 20" so where's the advantage for more money. Better save for a 24" with a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 me thinks?

Valentia

Chochese wrote: »

Surely you don't buy all your gear just to post on Boards???

Good point!! But we do.....:rolleyes: Must start selling a few:rolleyes:

Arciphel

1920 x 1200 on a 24 inch, Valentia check this one out if you are looking for one.

Placebo

1280x1024 21'inch Trinitron CRT.

and i fixed the extra green colours, yay.

sionnach

1920x1200 on a 24" with a 17" 768x1024 in portrait beside it. Pics in fullscreen on the 24" and photoshop tools on the 17"

oshead

1920x1200 on a Dell 24" & 1920x1200 on a Dell 17" laptop.

quilmore

Valentia wrote: »

That's the same resolution as the 20" so where's the advantage for more money. Better save for a 24" with a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 me thinks?

I'm not paying for it, it's in work (we're due to move building to all new equipment)

I'm looking for a 1920x1200 24 incher for myself, any recomendation without breaking the bank? (i.e. under or around 500)

Valentia

quilmore wrote: »

I'm not paying for it, it's in work (we're due to move building to all new equipment)

I'm looking for a 1920x1200 24 incher for myself, any recomendation without breaking the bank? (i.e. under or around 500)

The cheap Dell 24" for just over €500 gets awful reviews. Unfortunately the 2408 is over €800. It will be awhile before I can get that. The reviews are brilliant tho and it has HDMI and DVI and.........enough, I can't afford it!

Thirdfox

1280x768 14" widescreen laptop...

yoyo

1680x1050 on a 22" LCD Monitor

Nick

quilmore

I wonder of you lot with LCD, do you have a TN panel or something else? did you choose your display based on its panel?

you can find out here what panel your display has

yoyo

quilmore wrote: »

I wonder of you lot with LCD, do you have a TN panel or something else? did you choose your display based on its panel?

you can find out here what panel your display has

Samsung 223BW (widescreen) has a 22 inch 5 ms TN (Samsung) panel.

According to that site

Nick

kjt

I have a 24" widesceen @ 1280x768.

You may be interested in this article by Gavin Doolan. Moreso web stats but it does give info on screen resolutions:

1. 1024×768 41.60%
2. 1280×800 25.40%
3. 1280×1024 13.40%
4. 1440×900 5.40%
5. 800×600 3.30%
6. Rest 10.50%

Valentia

quilmore wrote: »

I wonder of you lot with LCD, do you have a TN panel or something else? did you choose your display based on its panel?

you can find out here what panel your display has

I remember at the time I bought mine that I checked through some serial or Rev. No. thingy and it an S-IPS, which, apparently, is good.

And I can't imagine the refresh rate being of any signifigance when it comes to photo editing.

Valentia

Just noticed. All we do around here is repeat ourselves

GristlyEnd

1900 X 1200 on a Dell 2407WFP. We got a delivery (50) of the new 2408WFP in work recently and it is a beautiful screen. I'm just waiting of a duplicate order so I have a second 24" widescreen

Roen

quilmore wrote: »

I wonder of you lot with LCD, do you have a TN panel or something else? did you choose your display based on its panel?

you can find out here what panel your display has

Got it because it was SIPS. Would love to splash out on a serious monitor, but just can't justify it.

nilhg

1920x1200 on a Dell laptop, not the greatest but it will have to do for a while, pity there is no "student" price for decent screens.....