A neighbor who's gone laptop asked me if I wanted a 21.6" HP w2216h monitor. Since I work on a high end laptop (with a VERY good screen) and have wondered about getting a good larger monitor for processing tasks, I said "Sure! I'll take it!"
And now I have it set up. What a hoot! It's 1680 x 1050, a more square aspect ratio, so it's showing about the same image area as my 1920x1080 18" laptop screen (bearing in mind that my photos are almost NEVER skinny), but on a larger display so everything's BIGGER. I'm not sure if it's a good enough monitor to PROCESS on (I'll have to tinker with it) but it sure as heck is good enough to VOTE with, and voting just got a ton easier. Plus I can set 'em to clone, if I want, so I can use the laptop for judging color and contrast whilst I use the larger screen for selecting etc, maybe.
I gotta figure this out. I've never had 2 screens before. So cool. Any suggestions welcome :-)
When your primary monitor is on a laptop, even a larger laptop, that second, bigger monitor is a huge benefit. Just don't go crazy trying to get the colors matched, LOL.
What's funny is when the laptop screen is half the area, but higher resolution. I have that situation at work, where my 15.6" laptop is 1920x1080 while my 22" second monitor is 1680x1050.
When your primary monitor is on a laptop, even a larger laptop, that second, bigger monitor is a huge benefit. Just don't go crazy trying to get the colors matched, LOL.
What's funny is when the laptop screen is half the area, but higher resolution. I have that situation at work, where my 15.6" laptop is 1920x1080 while my 22" second monitor is 1680x1050.
I just picked up that surface pro 2, I now have two screens, one is 55" and the other is 10" - they're both the same 1920x1080 resolution.
What's really strange is how different images look on the two. Many times I've wondered how voters could ignore such OBVIOUS flaws in the high scoring images... Well, on the smaller screen the flaws aren't obvious at all, and in fact, some of those 'flaws' look pretty good when you aren't viewing the image at a huge size.
I think I'm going to start processing for the smaller screens and see if my scores improve.
I have been using dual screens for at least 13 years--for the last 6 or more I've had a 30" and a 24" LCD monitor side by side (no laptops). It spoils you! I really can't use a laptop or tablet for anything serious anymore...I need the real estate to spread out.
The problem is of course, calibration. I use the Eye One, and it's still hard to make the monitors (different types--the 24" is a NEC high gamut monitor and has it's own Eye one calibrator. The older one is a 30" Dell which has more contrast and is not high gamut. Which is right? Even calibrated, for DPC, it doesn't matter...because the voters will all have different monitors!
The other problem--The NEC has it's own Eye One which will only calibrate the NEC, and the Dell I have to calibrate with my other Eye One! PITA.
