Hi,
Recently I got interested in taking and printing quality pictures. And therefore I'll be taking an introductory course to learn how to use the Olympus E series DSLR camera and Adobe Photoshop this summer. According to prad, a general lcd monitor with a TN panel will not yield accurate colors(only 6-bit colours). Therefore I'll need a wide color gamut monitor. Apparently, only a handful of monitors meet the requirement as they need to use either a IPS or VA panel.
After doing some research, I arrived at the following list.
dell ultrasharp 2408wfp
HP LP2475w
Philips 240PW9EB
Samsung F2380
LG 22" or 24" E-IPS monitor
Dell 2209WA
Both the Dell and HP got very positive reviews from prad, but since I'm also a gamer, I'm kinda worried about the 2-3 frames of input lag. The Samsung F2380(CPVA panel) looks really interesting, however it will only be available in Europe and Asia at launch and who knows when it will be available in Canada. I had high hopes for the E-IPS panels from LG, however the launch date has yet to be announced. Furthermore, the Dell 2209WA (the first and only monitor in the world that uses the new 22" E-IPS panel) is not a wide-colour gamut monitor! And hence prad didn't even bother to compare the color space of the monitor to AdobeRGB or ECI-RGB 2.0.
As you can see, I'm stuck with either getting a HP LP2475w or Dell 2408wfp which is expensive and has input lag, or wait for the CPVA and E-IPS and hope a wide-color gamut implementation will be released.
Which is why I became very excited after finding out about the LG 32LH40. It is 32", uses a S-IPS panel(10 Bit Colour Reproduction), has TruMotion 120Hz(2.7ms reponse time) and 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio! The S-IPS panel as well as the 10 Bit Color Reproduction feature gives me the impression that this TV features a extended color space and may therefore support AdobeRGB fairly well. This is just a guess of mine however as I don't have the TV nor do I know how to test color space accuracy. Therefore I am hoping that someone can comment on the feasibility of using the LG 32LH40 for photoshop.
Thanks in advance
Update
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It looks like the LG w2420p and w2220p will be the new monitors that uses the E-IPS panels. Unfortunately, the w2420p and w2220p only has a 72% NTSC colour space. It is the W2420R that covers 100% of the AdobeRGB colour space and 135% of the NTSC colour space. The 2420R cost 1630 euros.