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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Very Capable S-PVA Monitor at a Good Price, January 13, 2009
If you want to read some really objective and more authoritative reviews than what you can find here, I would suggest the following sites, where I think you will find that this is a very highly rated monitor, especially in its price range:
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I ordered my HP LP2275W from Amazon on 1-6-2009 for $[...] and to my surprise (shock actually) it arrived the next day with free shipping. So far, after a week, I am very happy with this monitor. The hardware and ergonomics are very solid, yet flexible and easy to adjust the screen position and display characteristics, and I like having more space on the wide screen. The viewing angle is wide without lost of brightness or color and screen non-reflective.
I have not seen any of the screen artifacts described by some users, nor heard any noticeable sounds from the monitor. I can't help but think those screen artifacts were driver-related or perhaps a graphics card or compatibility issue. I didn't even open the monitor software disk, but downloaded everything from the HP web site instead, to be sure I had the latest drivers, and I installed all the software before installing the monitor on my WinXP Pro Gateway FX530xm PC with Core2 6400 CPU @ 2.13Ghz, 3.24GB Ram, which has an Nvidia GE Force 7300 LE graphics adapter and using the DVI to DVI cable.
I was pleased that I was able to read all text at the default screen resolution. Since I was considering the HP 2475 model before this, I was afraid that the smaller 2275 model might be too small for my aging eyes with reading glasses, but according to my calculations, the 2275's screen resolution is lower by a greater percentage than the screen size is smaller, so objects will actually appear a bit larger than on the 2475. It also seems sharper than my old CRT was running at 1024x768, even though things are a bit smaller on this screen at 1680x1050. It was also nice that the price was over $[...] less than the 2475.
I calibrated my HP LP2275W with the i1-Display2 colorimeter and Eye-One Match 3 software, with no problems. The end result was a very straight-line calibration curve with on target values for color temp, gamma, luminance and black point, as you can see at [...]
I was pleased to see that the 120 cd/m2 luminance calibration target was achieved at a medium brightness setting of 52% (factory setting was 90%). Most LCD panels are set too bright, according to calibration reviews available online, and some have to be turned down to 10% or less before they reach the target value. The factory RGB settings were 242/213/207 out of the box, and changed to 242/211/223 after calibration by adjusting the OSD controls to reach the Eye-One Match target scales. I first used the HP Display Assistant to get things in the ballpark for brightness, and it's nice that HP has added this software, which should prove especially handy for those without a hardware calibration device. The "Litesaver" monitor sleep program is also a nice touch to help prolong the life of the backlight.
Also, with regard to the possible negative side effects of using a wide-gamut monitor such as this S-PVA panel, reports show the 2275's 92% color space is not as wide as the 2475's 102% or others which may be even larger; so I feel this monitor may offer more of a middle ground choice in providing the benefits of a wider gamut than the typical TN panel, while perhaps minimizing some of those extreme glowing colors in an unmanaged environment. The colors are noticeably more saturated than on my old CRT, but not extremely so in most cases, though I do tend to prefer a bit more saturated colors anyway. If colors appear too saturated when viewing pictures outside of photoshop, there are free color-managed file viewers and web browsers available to solve this [...].
As a photographer who wants the ability to display a wider color gamut while editing photos in photoshop, while maintaining color accuracy through monitor calibration and custom color management profiles, this monitor suits my needs perfectly. I will need more time to see how things go with comparing my images edited in photoshop to the prints on my Epson R1800, but I expect a very close match.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very pleased!, January 25, 2009
I've been using an Apple Cinema Display at my job for Photoshop work. My Samsung 22" at home was great for everything else, but wasn't fit for photo editing as any change in viewing angle produced different exposure effects.
I thought about getting an Apple Cinema Display for my home office, (very pricey!), or going with HP's 24", (also pricey).
Then I found that HP has this 22" which has the same technology as their 24" which also has the same LCD technology as Apple, (S-PVA). All at an acceptable price. The review by BrianZ clinched it and I ordered it.
When UPS delivered the 25 lb. box, I was quite impressed with the protective packaging. It has more weight to it than my Samsung has and is solidly built. (Not as pretty, but I don't need pretty for production work.)
Installed the driver in my Vista machine, hooked it up to the VGA port using the cables that came with the monitor, (as they strongly recommended), and fired it up. It went through a bunch of automatic gyrations, messed up my desk icon placement, and then produced a gorgeous image. No screen banding, flickering or any obvious dead pixels.
I then put a third party video card into my machine so that I could take advantage of the DVI to DVI connection and it's producing an image quality that rivals Apple's.
I am quite happy with this monitor and will update this review if I run into any issues. It's a stellar monitor, so far!
(If you want a clean used Samsung 2232gw, let me know. bob at hawkeyephoto dot com ;-) )
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very Disappointing, November 11, 2008
Color was washed out right out of the box and defied any attempts at calibrating. The second day I had it red horizontal lines and blue vertical lines of "static" would appear while it warmed up. Plus error messages saying the monitor was out of range and to set it at 1680x1050 @ 60Hz would pop up (it was at that resolution and refresh rate already).
I read other user reviews online and apparently these aren't isolated incidents. I sent it back.
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