What monitor ?

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My main computer is about to be rebuilt after a major death and I'm using the opportunity to upgrade the graphics card and get a new monitor. I'm uncertain though as to which monitor. I'm attracted to widescreen but haven't actually used one so thought I'd ask the experts!

What do you think is best for graphics etc - wide screen or standard? Please bear in mind I've got a limited budget of approximately £100 as I've got to upgrade the graphics card as well.

Also this is my main pc that is used for word, excel etc.

Any advice welcome!
 
If that is a budget for card and monitor you aren't going o get much tbh
 
No not both - £100 approximately for monitor give or take a few quid. just trying to find out whether people think wide screen is better/preferable than standard screen or not, then I can start looking around at the options within my budget
 
Blackwijet said:
No not both - £100 approximately for monitor give or take a few quid. just trying to find out whether people think wide screen is better/preferable than standard screen or not, then I can start looking around at the options within my budget
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Even £100 for just the monitor will not get you anything to write home about.
 
Okay forget the budget as that seems to be distracting from my main question

widescreen or standard???
 
You shoot a D700 but only have a £100 to spend on a monitor?!

If I had such a camera I'd want to spend a few quid more on my monitor so I could see the fruits of my labour nicely :)
 
After a lot of reaserch I bought yesterday a Dell 2209wa wide sceen monitor and a 256 Mb graphic card to support its wide screen native resolution.

You dont have to buy an expensive graphics card unless you are gaming and /or rebdering 3 d images.

It works a treat with photoshop and whats more the graphics card was £25 and far better than the built in raid card .

Used a spyder coluromitor to calibrate and I am in wide screen heaven :)
 
hat monitor is double the OP's original budget though.
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Er..... yes, on second thoughts and on reflection perhaps I shpild have posted a 'woop woop' I have a new monitor thread:p
 
I'd say definately a widescreen monitor. They are mass produced a lot more than 4:3 display monitors so tend to be cheaper.

£100 should get you a half decent monitor, not the best obviously but quite adequate.
 
Greg K said:
You shoot a D700 but only have a £100 to spend on a monitor?!

If I had such a camera I'd want to spend a few quid more on my monitor so I could see the fruits of my labour nicely :)
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I'd love to spend more on the monitor but:-

I'm still paying my father back for the D700 - good old Dad:lol:
Plus I'm a horse owner - big drain on the bank account
plus I'm decorating at the moment - always costs more than you planned
Oh and the car needs a service
Oh and my cat needs an operation

So finances are a bit limited at the moment - thank heavens for the credit cards:D
 
Biggz said:
I'd say definately a widescreen monitor. They are mass produced a lot more than 4:3 display monitors so tend to be cheaper.

£100 should get you a half decent monitor, not the best obviously but quite adequate.
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thanks and to everyone else - you've helped a lot! At least I can direct my limited funds in the right direction!

Maybe I'll starve the horse and the cats for a month and up the budget for the monitor:lol:
 
Well, Fujitsu AMILO L 3220T isn't anything special, more of an office monitor, but it had better image quality than I expected - I got one at work (for work use) last week, a colleague of mine brought his 400D so I nicked it for a bit and shot my co-workers (the part after 400D is almost like the news these days, isn't it ;)).
If you're on a tight budget, that one might do the trick. It's not great, but for being fairly cheap, it's quite usable after some tuning. I'd suggest downloading a program for monitor adjustment for Fujitsu's website or something similar, as it was quite handy.

EDIT: I've ran a few photo tests, it seems it either has 6-bit internal processing or is has a 6-bit panel, as greyscale gradiends don't look very good on it. That or my trusty Eizo does some serious dithering (it looks great if it does it, though).
 
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