I don't need this answer from you, but you should answer this question to yourself. Why are all printing companies using matte screens and not glossies? Why are professional monitor companies like Eizo producing only matte screens?
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I don't need this answer from you, but you should answer this question to yourself. Why are all printing companies using matte screens and not glossies? Why are professional monitor companies like Eizo producing only matte screens?
Simple. Because everyone cries about wanting matte and the companies don't wait to listen to it
Seriously though, all jokes and bickering and such aside. Try working off of a glossy calibrated monitor (a good one, not the cheap glossys HP used to put out) and a matte and high end printer, make sure all are calibrated and then print. I guarantee you will start to see why glossy is better. Every single person I know, myself included has switched to glossy after doing this.
When I thought today was perfect got my new LED display and hour with it I have a dead pixel this blows taking my display back and I hope My Apple store still has some left or I might have wait
Simple. Because everyone cries about wanting matte and the companies don't wait to listen to it
Seriously though, all jokes and bickering and such aside. Try working off of a glossy calibrated monitor (a good one, not the cheap glossys HP used to put out) and a matte and high end printer, make sure all are calibrated and then print. I guarantee you will start to see why glossy is better. Every single person I know, myself included has switched to glossy after doing this.
Well my iMac is glossy and it fries my retinas. 30 minutes and my eyes are killing me, and I've been working a long long time on computers. Sure it "looks nice" but I personally think Matte looks better because the image looks more immediate and there is of course zero glare. With the iMac it looks like you have to look through an extremely shiny window to see what you want to see.
If you just read the eizo literature they even say that the color performance is pretty much identical, but glossy can cause eye strain.
I find it funny that people are so hardcore into their "camps" and act like the people that prefer the other side are morons. Kinda reflects more on the people doing the accusing than the accused. Both panel types produce the same color!
But I personally will take matte because, at least Apple's, glossy's become very painful for me quite quickly. For people that don't experience this, more power to them.
There are countless reasons are why I will never buy a glossy display. I'll run my 30" 'til it dies and then find another manufacturer if Apple doesn't offer matte.
Wow if ever i wanted to hear a bunch of amateurs complain then this is the place to be.
You fools trying to use you "intimate knowledge" of the print industry and process are letting yourselves down because you do not have enough knowledge to lie the way you do without slipping up.
*laugh at people who think they even need color accuracy for what they do.
*laugh at people who seem to think that all printers and printing companies offer absolute accuracy, and therefore any error is with the monitor.
*laugh at people comparing glossy and matte laptop displays as if you could ever hope to achieve an accurate image out of the LCD behind the glass.
*laugh at the people saying they will "just buy" a brand of monitor they will never be able to afford. If you actually needed one of those monitors, you would never have even considered an ACD.
*laugh at people who think their "photography business" needs color accurate monitors. I can guarantee you there would be so many problems with your shoot to print technique that the monitor is the least of your concerns.
*laugh at people looking at a photo, taken by what is most possibly the worst camera ever invented, shot in the worst of settings, with the least amount of thought into how the exposure of the screen is affecting colour, and then basing their expert opinion on such, and then still claiming to be in the business where they need and demand colour accuracy.
*again, laugh at people who think they need colour accuracy.
You fools trying to use you "intimate knowledge" of the print industry and process are letting yourselves down because you do not have enough knowledge to lie the way you do without slipping up.
*laugh at people who think they even need color accuracy for what they do.
*laugh at people who seem to think that all printers and printing companies offer absolute accuracy, and therefore any error is with the monitor.
*laugh at people comparing glossy and matte laptop displays as if you could ever hope to achieve an accurate image out of the LCD behind the glass.
*laugh at the people saying they will "just buy" a brand of monitor they will never be able to afford. If you actually needed one of those monitors, you would never have even considered an ACD.
*laugh at people who think their "photography business" needs color accurate monitors. I can guarantee you there would be so many problems with your shoot to print technique that the monitor is the least of your concerns.
*laugh at people looking at a photo, taken by what is most possibly the worst camera ever invented, shot in the worst of settings, with the least amount of thought into how the exposure of the screen is affecting colour, and then basing their expert opinion on such, and then still claiming to be in the business where they need and demand colour accuracy.
*again, laugh at people who think they need colour accuracy.
I hope my 30" will continue to work well.
I'm not interested in backlight or glossy/matte or anything other than size and pixel count.
I want more pixels (at a size I don't have to enlarge the fonts to actually read text) !
I don't understand why Apple has reduced the total pixel count on a new product... this is strange in computers where new generation hardware usually offers more than the older one.
I'm not interested in backlight or glossy/matte or anything other than size and pixel count.
I want more pixels (at a size I don't have to enlarge the fonts to actually read text) !
I don't understand why Apple has reduced the total pixel count on a new product... this is strange in computers where new generation hardware usually offers more than the older one.
yuck! anyone with a brain will see this new display is way too wide,THANK GOD I HAVE THE 24 ACD.
16:9? boooo
27''? boooo
16:9? boooo
27''? boooo
In my defense, 27" is smaller than 30". It's also cheaper... if you want to pay about 2x the price for 10% more pixels, go right ahead.
Wow.
Just because you like glossy, does not mean that a matte display is inferior, and vice versa.
It's just like:
Coke vs Pepsi
iOS vs Android
McDonalds vs Burger King
Windows vs OS X
East coast vs West coast
Ford vs Chevy
Cable vs Satalite
None of these things have ever been scientifically proven to be superior the the other, and they never will. It's all a matter of opinion.
If the stranger on the other side of your internet connection prefers matte to glossy, and you like glossy, who cares? At the end of the day you will still be on your glossy display, and he or she will still be on their matte display, both very happy with what they are looking at.
Just because you like glossy, does not mean that a matte display is inferior, and vice versa.
It's just like:
Coke vs Pepsi
iOS vs Android
McDonalds vs Burger King
Windows vs OS X
East coast vs West coast
Ford vs Chevy
Cable vs Satalite
None of these things have ever been scientifically proven to be superior the the other, and they never will. It's all a matter of opinion.
If the stranger on the other side of your internet connection prefers matte to glossy, and you like glossy, who cares? At the end of the day you will still be on your glossy display, and he or she will still be on their matte display, both very happy with what they are looking at.
Not if you use Maya all day
I can't wait to have more room for the outliner without pushing it to my second monitor which photoshop will hog.
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A monitor is a small thing to calibrate with regards to a digital workflow. (Most photographers never bother to calibrate their cameras
)I've said my fair of sharp words on this thread (sorry to anyone I was snippy at, nothing personal) but basically I'm sick of every time Apple releases something awesome that a lot of us are excited about there are a ton of people who storm in with all kinds of "Apple sucks!" "This feature sucks, that features sucks!" and its tiring. Let those of us who are excited about it be happy about it. I personally can't wait until my ACDs arrive.
aaaaand the baseless assumption award goes tooooo *opens envelope* i.mac for his thrilling performance of self motivated contradicting douchebaggery. awesome.
on another note..... 9 out of 10 people complaining about the whole ewww its glossy cant afford to buy one right now, so it's a moo point. .......... yes i said MOO because no one cares what a cow's opinion is..... it's moo.