LCD vs CRT Monitors
Having just taken delivery of a new PC with an LCD monitor, I was particularly interested in this article by the Sydney Morning Herald, which compares LCD and CRT monitors from a photography point of view (found via digicamera.net). My new LCD monitor definitely looks a lot brighter and sharper alongside the CRT screen, but which one is giving the truest picture?
“One of Melbourne’s top commercial photographers, John Gollings, known for his architectural studies, says in the past six months he has been forced to replace half his company’s CRT monitors with 23-inch Apple LCD screens because “we think we will soon have no choice in the matter”.
Gollings says serious colour management on LCD monitors is “a nightmare” because they do not provide control over individual RGB (red-green-blue) colours. Gollings’s photo retoucher, who is also his daughter, will not use an LCD, but he says the designers in his studio love them because they are bright and have no curvature or distortion, making them ideal for desktop publishing.”