Best Monitor for PS/Lr & Mac

[russy01]

Morning,

Spent half hour last night playing about with Lightroom for the first time. Thing I noticed was my screen was too small! So I plugged in my spare monitor and then the colour and resolution was some way off the Mac. So I am looking to purchase another monitor, bigger and better.

Currently run a decent Macbook Pro 15 - i7, 16gb RAM, 2gb Video card and 512gb SSD. It has the 2880 x 1800 "Retina Screen"
I also have one of these screens for when I need more space for Spreadsheets etc - Asus VC239H IPS 1080p.

If I had the cash Id just buy the Apple 27' Thunderbolt display, but at £750 its ridiculous and the Mrs would kill me. Plus if I were to consider that Id probs go the full hog and buy a 27' iMac 5k!

So any ideas for a 27ish inch >1080p display ideal for a novice photographer to play about with....

Cheers.

[K12beano]

russy01 said:

Spent half hour last night playing about with Lightroom for the first time. Thing I noticed was my screen was too small! So I plugged in my spare monitor and then the colour and resolution was some way off the Mac

For the colour issue, why not just calibrate both screens? Far cheaper and much more useful starting point to have good colour calibration.

[russy01]

K12beano said:

For the colour issue, why not just calibrate both screens? Far cheaper and much more useful starting point to have good colour calibration.

Where do I start with this? If its a simple google and find the instructions then please say so and ill go have a look.

[Craikeybaby]

You need a calibration device, such as a Spyder.

With regards to monitors I would go for something with an IPS panel, as they tend to have less colour shift.Are you planning on running both monitors (works well in Lightroom) or one big screen for everything?

[russy01]

Id plan on using both. iff possible I would like to organise such that I could have the image in one screen and the tool bars on the other....

This spyder thing - gulp. They aren't cheap!

[Digitalize]

Get a 2560x1440 IPS display, should be fairly easy to get a decent one. BenQ, Dell etc.

And pickup a calibrator, pretty vital if you plan to use 2 different monitors at once, or plan to print etc. A good eye is all thats needed if you're an amateur but always nice to know it's right. I calibrate mine roughly monthly to check it's inline.

[russy01]

Thanks, ill take a look around. Ill see if a friend has a calibrator before I purchase one of those....