I am considering buying the new HP lP2475W, mainly for editing in FCP.
The main reasons for this choice:
It's an H-IPS panel: better viewing angles, which is important for me (when also someone other will watch with me)
It has a lot of video inputs, also for analog video (so I can play old DV etc. material). Besides it has pixel mapping, so old 4:3 material can be played back in the right aspect ratio.
It is a wide gamut display: I thought this would be fine for editing since have a better image in viewer and canvas than with a TN panel.
I am a documentary maker, and the feature length film I'm working on right now will be color corrected elsewhere. I don't have the equipment and the knowlegde to do it here myself - and on top of that: I'm a little bit color blind...(red-green deficiency).
Sometimes I will do a gig as assignment etc. and will finish it myself (with help of someone else, if necessary) at my own place.
And I want to be able to show people a rough cut of what I'm working on (playing it back in full screen or in the canvas).
Up until now I was working on an old G4 DP450, but now someone lended me a G5 DP 2.0. My monitor was an Iiamya 17"CRT, and I had as an external monitor a professional Sony 14"PAL monitor. The last one has gotten a too dark screen and with 16:9 HDV it is way to small.
I thought that upgrading to a 24" panel would give me more workspace and, if the monitor was good enough, also to give a relatively OK idea of the image, with enough color depth etc.
I will use it mainly for FCP,also for Photoshop etc. For my office work I have an old Windows PC with a plain ordinary Iiyama 22" TFT.
After a LOT of searching I found this HP monitor and thought it was the best solution, till I read a thread about it, that said that for websurfing etc. it was not that good. The wide color gamut, 92%, seems to make colors in the s_RGB colorspace washed out, and you can't get it adjusted in a satisfactory way, see
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17911883&page=8
(this is one page of several pages in that thread).
So my question is: what is the best option if you want to use just one monitor (I hardly can't afford this one, so an external monitor is beyond my budget now. I don't know how FCP renders in a 'normal' panel versus a wide gamut one. I also am not yet familiar with the different color settings in FCP, since I used till now the external monitor (hooked up through my DV deck's video output).
I searched several COW forums but could not find an answer to this question.
Thanks in advance,
Ciao,
Ton Guiking
