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 p.226 #6 · Canon 5D Mark II master thread | |
burychka wrote:
I'm a PC guy, but I have a Dell laptop with the "glossy" screen, and I can say this about it:
1. Thank goodness I don't use that computer for photo editing. Turning up the brightness to compensate for room reflections would be a major conflict with calibrating and profiling a monitor.
2. "Getting used to it" seems to mean changing your seat or turning sideways or closing the blinds. I had to get used to that, except for the closing the blinds thing, for weak wireless signals. Thank goodness I could get a repeater for the wireless. Glossy screen is still an annoyance, and I'm pretty sure it's not a religious issue.
3. I don't think I would buy a photo editing monitor with a glossy screen, even though I do my editing in a mostly darkened room.
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I've had a glossy screen laptop since I bought the original MacBook in May of 2006, and while I won't say that I'm wild about the glossy screen, I did get used to it. And by "getting used to it", I don't mean moving myself, the screen, etc - I mean I stopped looking at the reflection, and started looking "through" it. Some people are more sensitive to the reflections than others, though, and I don't know where I fall on that spectrum.
It's like driving in a very light rain - I won't necessarily turn my wipers on immediately, because I'm always looking WAY down the road, and the rain has to get pretty bad before it bothers me as much as the wipers sweeping through my field of vision. This drives my fiancee nuts, because she can't stop looking at the spots on the windshield (but she's easily distractable, in general).
I don't tend to see a laptop (and, more precisely, the laptop's screen) as something I would be doing "color critical" work on. My laptop is temporary storage for my pictures while I'm on vacation, with all the real work done on my desktop at home. I'm more concerned with checking focus than color while I'm on the road, but I do realize that there are working pros for whom that isn't really an option.
That said, I've read several pro's accounts of their misgivings about the glossy screens on the new MacBook Pro, and they generally end up feeling pretty favorably towards the machines, and the screens, after a period of use.
It will be interesting to see how people react to the new 24" LED Cinema Display, as it's the first glossy standalone display from Apple. Those that don't care for the glossy screens on the newer iMacs will probably have a similar reaction to the new Cinema Display, but it will be interesting to see how the LED backlight effects things, as the brightness of the LED backlight on the new laptops does seem to make a difference in the overall impression they make.
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I didn't have too much trouble tracking with focus by hand. I imagine if I do it enough and sufficiently motivated I could get pretty good at it. I also didn't have a lot of luck with face recognition but admittedly it was dim fluorescent lighting when I tried it. I am puzzled by the slowness of the focus in live view. You get this little rectangle and it will struggle for many seconds to get lock when it finally flashes green and beeps. My old Minolta D7 used such a focusing system and it was pretty snappy at it (relatively speaking of course but certainly not several seconds). I checked it and my memory was accurate - the old D7 is much quicker to acquire focus.