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At the moment ive got 2 22" monitors which are fine, if im running lightroom one monitor has the main editing page while the 2nd one just has a gallery view. What id like is a bigger main monitor and a smaller monitor on the side, i just think that a 22" monitor is a waste of space for just a gallery view and id be better off with a larger editing space. So the overall effect would be a similar desk space useage to what i have now but with a bigger editing screen.

Im just out of touch with what are good monitors these days. This is on a PC. I think 27" might be a little too large but id need to see one in the flesh. Only started thinking about this tonight.

Anyone running dual montiors have any thoughts? Price wise, 4-500 for the main monitor, happy with a cheap and cheerful for the 2nd.
 
essexash said:
At the moment ive got 2 22" monitors which are fine, if im running lightroom one monitor has the main editing page while the 2nd one just has a gallery view. What id like is a bigger main monitor and a smaller monitor on the side, i just think that a 22" monitor is a waste of space for just a gallery view and id be better off with a larger editing space. So the overall effect would be a similar desk space useage to what i have now but with a bigger editing screen.

Im just out of touch with what are good monitors these days. This is on a PC. I think 27" might be a little too large but id need to see one in the flesh. Only started thinking about this tonight.

Anyone running dual montiors have any thoughts? Price wise, 4-500 for the main monitor, happy with a cheap and cheerful for the 2nd.
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I use 2 NEC monitors with Lightroom. Both around the £1K mark. I have another PC with an HP2475W. When that's calibrated, it's very nearly as good as the NEC's. Perhaps very, very close if I spent more time getting the settings right.

I had assumed the 2475W was no longer available, but I see that Ebuyer have them in stock at £432.93 which fits right in your budget. There may be others out there, but I'd go with the HP. I don't agree that the second monitor could be "cheap and cheerful". You should still aim for an IPS panel.

Use (a home made?) glare shield and work on getting your ambient lighting right so that it doesn't degrade your setup.

Just my 2P worth
Steve
 
I have a dell u2410 (24" widescreen) as my editing monitor, and a samsund 17" or 19" 'normal' ratio for preview.
The sizes are nice to use. However, I think after hibernation, the samsung (which is the secondary monitor) doesn't appear to have good calibration, I think windows might be sending it the dell profile. With this in mind, it might be worthwhile sticking with two identical monitors from the same batch, to mitigate the effect?
 
pretty much all of the dell IPS panels get good writeups.

coldpenguin said:
I have a dell u2410 (24" widescreen) as my editing monitor, and a samsund 17" or 19" 'normal' ratio for preview.
The sizes are nice to use. However, I think after hibernation, the samsung (which is the secondary monitor) doesn't appear to have good calibration, I think windows might be sending it the dell profile. With this in mind, it might be worthwhile sticking with two identical monitors from the same batch, to mitigate the effect?
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does your graphics card definately support dual profiles?
 
Thanks for the input peeps, the HP2475W seems to be top of the pile at the moment.
 
neil_g said:
...does your graphics card definately support dual profiles?
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I don't know, it isn't a basic card, EVGA 570
If I profile the monitors, then I can set a profile for each one in turn, and they stay consistent when I profile the other monitor.

I think it mightbe a windows bug, as after hibernation only, the profiles get messed up on the secondary display, and the profile file itself becomes locked for writting on the primary display.
I can at that point reprofile fir the secondary, but not the primary (due to the file lock).
 
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