Monitor Viewing angles - Not A Clear-cut Issue

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Just looked at a crit on an image (EdGary's - Quirang, Scotland TP Bang Bus Tour 2009 "Nice picture, Gary
but, in my opinion, the left down corner has to have a little less shadows."

Anyway, on my monitor, at the angle I generally have set, the pic did look a little dark as mentioned, however by moving my monitor angle a fraction, the shadowed area looked fine. Yes the whole pic wasslightly lighter.

My daft question is how does one decide on the right angle ?

If using a calibrator, surely your monitor would have to be left at the angle you calibrated it at and you would have to view the screen at the same angle otherwise your would not be processing correctly.

Thoughts ???? :thinking:
 
The further you can get away from the monitor the less the viewing angle becomes a factor so have a good working distance, especially with larger screens.
 
pxl8 said:
The further you can get away from the monitor the less the viewing angle becomes a factor so have a good working distance, especially with larger screens.
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That's interesting, although I don't like to be too far from the screen.
 
well your question how do you decide on the angle. Given that you more than likely have this problem because of the screen being a TN panel, which by their nature have very narrow veiwing angles, you have to calibrate you screen in the same position as which you will use it. So your second supposition is correct.

There's not much else to add?

On a large TN panel it is even possible that being in a 'normal' viewing position (as opposed to the 'optimal') that it becomes impossible to have a consistant veiw of the whole screen, due the the veiwing angle being substantially different for different edges of the screen. The solution to this is: Sit further back, as mentioned above. Get a better screen, perhaps an IPS panel which doesn't suffer these problems. Work with it, bearing in mind the limitations of the display device.

I use many different LCD screens daily and there are massive differences between a good screen and a bad screen. On some of the 19" cheap screens (benq) we have I find it almost impossible to get a decent even view of the screen without some colour shift happening. Fortunately I don't use them for colour critical work. Just text and bitonal.

The link above does mention this in reference to the Thinkpad screen, which reputedly has an amazing panel within it. My own thinkpad (X31)has a really good screen for viewing angle as well, but I'm not sure if it is the same type of screen or not.
 
ranarama said:
Don't buy cheap TN panel monitors for editing photos.
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:thumbs:

TN panels are crap, laptop monitors are the worst.

well with regard to your question. You cannot really determine the optimum viewing angle. the post by ranarama is saying do not use the tn screen to photo edit, if you ARE NOT prepared to be contempt with the change contrast/brightness feature exhibited by TN panels
 
Rockshifter said:
Is this relevant to the angle you view screen at ?
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Yes.

If you want to view accurate colours on a TN panel then you need to view it dead straight on otherwise you get shifts in colour and brightness.

Even with a TN panel because the top of the screen is at a different angle to the bottom (relative to your eyes) you can't guarantee accurate colours even when you are sitting straight on. As Pxl8 suggested, sit further back to minimise this effect.

The best option (and expensive option) is to get a S-IPS panel which will give accurate colours at a much bigger range of angles.
 
ranarama said:
Yes.

If you want to view accurate colours on a TN panel then you need to view it dead straight on otherwise you get shifts in colour and brightness.

Even with a TN panel because the top of the screen is at a different angle to the bottom (relative to your eyes) you can't guarantee accurate colours even when you are sitting straight on. As Pxl8 suggested, sit further back to minimise this effect.

The best option (and expensive option) is to get a S-IPS panel which will give accurate colours at a much bigger range of angles.
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^^^+1 TN monitors should be viewed as near to 'straight on' as possible as they have a very narrow angle of view (which is why it becomes less important the further away you are). They are virtually useless for serious photo editing. If you really want accurate colours and contrast stick with CRT, failing that and if you must have a flat panel, look for S-IPS as ranarama says.
 
Ok all
Thanks for replies.
Think my easiest option is to move back from screen and edit on my desktop.
 
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