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BenQ SW2700PT - part 3 of 1 2 3

by Mike McNamee Published 01/10/2015

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The monitor is equipped with a hood (as all good monitors should be!) and also has ports for USB 3 (two off) and an SD card reader. There is a separate puck for screen navigation and this also allows the user to switch between Adobe RGB, sRGB and monochrome screen operation. The shifts in overall image brightness as the switch between sRGB and ARGB is made are indicative of what might happen if you move images into non-colourmanaged application but otherwise of no significant use. The OSD puck operation we found useful.

Overall
This is a fabulous monitor for the price, clean and crisp resolution allied to very high colour accuracy and a wide gamut are all one could ask for; it ticks all the boxes for professional photography and pre-press use. It will be interesting to see how the competitors respond to the commercial threat that it poses.

Size Matters!
This is a 27-inch monitor and thus provides a substantial area of screen estate for working. The upside of a larger screen is the increase in the area available for palettes, the downside is that uniformity is most usually a little inferior, the viewing angle at the edges is compromised and the costs are generally higher - to some extent the BenQ bucks this trend! However, by the time you get to 30 inches the edges of the screen can be outside the focus area for users of reading glasses (ie positive dioptre prescriptions) and two smaller screens, one of which is angled around, is a more comfortable arrangement. A compromise in this situation is to have a high-end 24-inch monitor square on to the user and a 'palette' monitor on the right (left for left-handers) and angled around like an aircraft cockpit to keep everything nicely in focus. The palette monitor can be a budget model. From a cost point of view this set-up might need reconsidering given the cost of the BenQ, two of them cost less than my 24-inch monitor! However, 54 inches of screen estate represents an awful lot of head swivelling. Against that, we cannot get all the palettes we would like on display for InDesign when doing magazine layout.

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