Beiträge von user907

Hi redleaf!

I don’t know exactly how do you understand the sense of "banding". Basically you should recognize for example all 128 stripes at the same width if 128 levels of digital signal from DVI output are produced by testing application.
(only 32, 64, 128, 256 levels of test-patterns are recommended - don’t use other count of levels for serious testing)

If you see some fusion of 2 or more stripes into one only, thats the "banding" in original sense of word. Dependend on ambient light conditions and relationship to brightness of display its usually not easy to recognize the differencies in the lowest levels of darkness. You can try to change the "hardness" of gradation with Gamma tool in Color-menu to lower level to make differencies of deepest tones more visible.

Then we can control a "neutrality" rendering with the greyscale-stripes pattern. If you see some drifts of general tint of greyscale pattern (all R-G-B channels are the same value at every pixel) then you can say the neutrality isn’t perfect.

And what is expected after all?
Do you mean the 500EUR-LCD presented as office display for safety reproduction of images is the right tool for photo retouching with professional requirements? No. EIZO CG-tool is the right conclusion for photo-manipulation.
Models with 14 or 16-bit signal processing are perceptible better in rendering of neutral tones or display uniformity (due the DUE).

I don’t believe you can find any other 20" widescreen LCD in 500EUR-class better equiped for photo-editing... maybe I’m wrong.

Have a nice time

to ftrippie:

There is no EIZO office in Spain???

I can’t belive that

try this one
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Good luck!

Hi masterofdisaster,
I am totally surprised by your story!

Its all wrong from the start your testing... your test-file is a loss-compressed .JPG-file and the information inside this file arent right for testing any LCD for banding - even S2031W with 10-bit LUT!

You need some special testing file (no dithering, no loss-compression) or application, like an EIZO-Test for download here:
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and select the gradient with 256/128/64 steps for every channel.
Due the pricision of EIZO’s 10-bit LUT can count every 256 steps in digital signal, but human eye can see it on neutral greyscale only /dont try it in blue channel

First, be sure that LUT on your graphics is correction-free, deactivate all colormanagement or load-in an original EIZO generic ICC profile for any LCD - its defined as gamma correction free.
If you need to open a single test-image in common application, you should take something without colormanagement or switch the CMS really OFF!

...and dont forget to connect S2031W to native resolution digital signal over DVI interface and make the factory default setting active.

Have a nice test-day and greetings for dummies from EIZO.de-support