I've been running a pair of Dell U1905fp's since March of 2005. I've been pretty happy with them for both general work and for gaming, and I really appreciate the advantages of paired monitors with small bezels. When need be I have two work spaces (which a single large monitor won't give me), and the relatively thin bezel means it can feel like one large work space when I need that.
I sometimes use them for photo editing, both conventional and for astrophotography. A couple of times people have commented on things I didn't see on my monitors, particularly my astronomy images since they involve a lot of complicated post-processing and there's sometimes leftover noise or background gradient. I started noticing that there were things, specifically relatively dark noisy backgrounds, which were readily visible to other people, but only visible to me if I deliberately look at the monitors from a steep angle, say 60 degrees or so. It's now my standard operating procedure to use this off-angle view to see if I can spot anything now.
It bugs me. For that matter, sometimes there are things that are not noise that are only visible at this angle, like the faint red background nebulosity near the Running Man nebula in a recent photo.
I was under the impression that the 1905fp was an IPS panel, but I gather it's PVA. One thing that started me down the road of thinking about new monitors was the relatively cheap 24" monitors from Dell and HP, but since they're e-IPS, I gather they're really not suitable for the sort of serious post-processing I do because the color accuracy and gamut do not compare with a real 8 bit IPS panel.
I should probably buy a color calibration kit like the Spyder 3, but I suspect it won't address the problems I've mentioned above.
What monitors (again, I'd want matched dual monitors) would you recommend? Would I actually see any improvement, or is this a frivolous waste of money? I spent $900 on my current pair ($450 each), so I guess that's my ballpark, though I'd much rather spend less.
I sometimes use them for photo editing, both conventional and for astrophotography. A couple of times people have commented on things I didn't see on my monitors, particularly my astronomy images since they involve a lot of complicated post-processing and there's sometimes leftover noise or background gradient. I started noticing that there were things, specifically relatively dark noisy backgrounds, which were readily visible to other people, but only visible to me if I deliberately look at the monitors from a steep angle, say 60 degrees or so. It's now my standard operating procedure to use this off-angle view to see if I can spot anything now.
It bugs me. For that matter, sometimes there are things that are not noise that are only visible at this angle, like the faint red background nebulosity near the Running Man nebula in a recent photo.
I was under the impression that the 1905fp was an IPS panel, but I gather it's PVA. One thing that started me down the road of thinking about new monitors was the relatively cheap 24" monitors from Dell and HP, but since they're e-IPS, I gather they're really not suitable for the sort of serious post-processing I do because the color accuracy and gamut do not compare with a real 8 bit IPS panel.
I should probably buy a color calibration kit like the Spyder 3, but I suspect it won't address the problems I've mentioned above.
What monitors (again, I'd want matched dual monitors) would you recommend? Would I actually see any improvement, or is this a frivolous waste of money? I spent $900 on my current pair ($450 each), so I guess that's my ballpark, though I'd much rather spend less.
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