I am considering an upgrade to a larger Eizo LCD to run photoshop and DPP.
In terms of price, CG241W (24") is about 1.37x of SX2461(24"), or 1.14x of SX2761 (27"). To what extent, can CG241W outperform SX2461 to justisfy the premium? What size (24" vs 27") is more appropriate for photo processing? Among these three, which one will you pick?
CG = series is what you will want for photo work, the others may be ok for other type of color work, but the CG is the better choice....
....you could also read the specs! and not just the price tag
a bit like the customer who walks into the restaurant, sits down with great expectations, gets his menu and when approached by the waiter points at the price and not at the name of the meal, only to discover his dinner is a sidesalad and not a steak
Also try looking at the monitors before you actually buy one. The Eizo CG241W has a uniformity issue where the left side of the screen looks darker than the right side (many pictures of this were posted when it was released). For the money I'd expect a lot better. I have always been a fan of the Eizo CG series but in the end I went for the NEC 3090WQXi which is a fantastic monitor, 30", wide gamut, 2560 x 1600 and combined with Spectraview II has more sophisticated calibration and configuration than any other monitor on the planet. I got mine from Provantage for $1980 including shipping. Add another $300 for an i1 Display II and the Spectraview software, and another $250 for the Innovative Office products 7500 series arm and you've got what I think is pretty close to the ultimate setup.
The difference between the ColorEdge CG and the Flexscan series are the calibration method. Both have the same exact panels. But the CG series has the hardware calibration function, so you can calibrate the monitor LUT and the monitor itself actually came calibrated to spec which is 2.2, 6500k from factory. I myself went ahead and got the CG241W for quality.
camey, I don't get what you mean by the screen looks darket on the right side etc, cause I dont see that in mine, and if I had to choose between the NEC and Eizo, Id go with Eizo just because of quality. (I know NEC is good too but I think Eizo screens hold the edge.)
> The Eizo CG241W has a uniformity issue where the left side of the screen looks darker than the right side (many pictures of this were posted when it was released).
I've seen quite a lot of CG241 samples and have never seen this issue before. The display comes with a chart with factory meausured luminance levels across the screen.
I'm in a similar situation. My trusty old 21.3" Eizo has developed a thin yellow line on the left side and is out of warranty.
I recently bought the NEC 3090WQXi and it was disappointing. The brightness and especially color were not uniform, and there was slight flickering in a few areas. I spent way too much time playing around with it and finally gave up. I don't know if they are all this bad, some people are blind and don't see the variations, or the assemblers were drunk that day. Return was a hassle as I'm fairly small and the product is not easy to fit in the car and haul to the UPS. I'm not even thinking about trying another one.
The question now is what to buy next. For those owners of the CG241W, are there any color unifomity issues? How well does it handle changes in viewing angles? Is there much corner backlight bleeding in dark images when viewed at close distances?
If you measure uniformity across the screen it won't show any problems. It's viewing angle that is the problem. When you view from the middle of the screen one side looks dark and one light because viewing from an angle > 90 degrees gives a darker image and viewing from < 90 degrees gives a lighter image.
Sorry to hear about your problems EBH. It sounds like you might have had one with backlight problems, I don't see any flickering on mine and I can see flickering on CRTs until the refresh rate reaches 80Hz. The screen isn't that uniform, mine has a visible vertical luminance band about 1/3 the way across but overall the color is perfect one mine (using the Nokia test pattern generator). It's a bit grainy up real close but it is a 30" monitor after all and the level of color saturation it can achieve is quite stunning. Definitely room for improvement in the future but nothing I've seen can touch it right now (no I haven't seen the Eizo 30" and for the price I'm not sure I want to).
The brightness and especially color were not uniform, and there was slight flickering in a few areas. I spent way too much time playing around with it and finally gave up. I don't know if they are all this bad, some people are blind and don't see the variations, or the assemblers were drunk that day. Return was a hassle as I'm fairly small and the product is not easy to fit in the car and haul to the UPS. I'm not even thinking about trying another one.