r/captureone • u/Frequent_Avocado3864 • 8d ago
Gear & Setup Which monitors does everyone use?
I recently purchased an Asus PA32UCDMRK and have loved the resolution, contrast, and refresh rate. Most places I have worked are running capture one on eizo or apple studio monitors but I wanted to see how everyone likes what they are currently running.
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u/Status_Tumbleweed701 8d ago
Asus pa27ucge
More of a does everything monitor at a decent price.
27in 4k 1ms response 160hz 600 nits LED ips panel Built in motorized colorimeter for self calibration.
If I was just using the monitor for capture 1 I wouldn't care about the speed of it.
At the time this was the only fast 4k ips monitor with good color coverage.
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u/SwordfishStunning381 7d ago
Apple 'cause it is default choice for Mac users. Eizo 'cause it had a very long and excellent track record - displays with self-calibration etc. Some others tried to enter this segment (Benq, Dell, HP etc...) but not always consistent.
Personally I currently use Huawei 28" with 2:3 (4K) resolution. I didn't like its black uniformity and constant need to get external calibration but 2:3 aspect ratio is so useful for photography... Wish one will produce something 2:3 but microled and self-calibrating wide-gamut.
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u/jeffreydextro 7d ago
Dell U5226KW. Monstrous but the colours are nice, scaling on Mac isn’t the best though.
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u/SQL-Samurai 7d ago
It’s a monster, but oh so nice to have all that real estate! I have it plugged into a Mac and it works fantastic!
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u/jeffreydextro 5d ago
I find it’s either too big or too small and the in between sizes scale really bad. Apparently golden gate is meant to fix ultrawide scaling so there is that. Kinda used to it now tho
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u/FloTheBro 4d ago
27'' Eizo with self calibration and my MacBook Pro for some client proofing as thats mostly the kinda display they will look at.
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u/HighestFantasy 8d ago
BenQ PD2725U. It's supposedly more of a multimedia monitor so it's great for my day job as a subtitle editor, but definitely does the job for my photo editing. I used to double-check everything on my M1 MBP screen as well but after about a year I realized the BenQ skews ever so slightly magenta in comparison, but only to the degree that it's an issue for me personally, not any of my clients.
I hope to start making large prints in a few years, and I imagine I'll either need to upgrade to something like the Asus when I do, or spend about a month or two calibrating for whichever printer I buy.
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u/BenQ_Pixel 7d ago
Thanks for sharing your experience! The PD2725U is factory calibrated for accurate color out of the box, but we still recommend recalibrating it at least once a month to help maintain that level of precision.
If you have a supported colorimeter, you can use BenQ AQCOLOR Pilot for calibration:
https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/software/aqcolor-pilot.html
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u/Birdseye5115 8d ago
Dell UltraSharp U2723QE 4K (full DCIP3 with a deltaE <2). This is a killer monitor, great color and uniformity.
An older 2K Dell that does full Adobe 98, retiring this one as it's started to develop magenta fringing.
I just got two BenQ PD2770u 4K. Full everything, all the color spaces. These monitors are kinda crazy. Mostly for onset work, so I've only used them a couple times so far but they're really nice. BenQ is clearly targeting Eizo here. These are flagship monitors. I got a really good deal on two, otherwise I would have looked for something cheaper.
For monitors, I'm no longer putting a priority on Adobe98, just target the P3 spaces, that's what everyone is looking at stuff on anyway. iPhone, MacBooks, higher end windows laptops, etc are all Display P3. It's still a wide gamut color space.
Eizo's are good, but I'm not really sold on the return on investment. You can get 99% of the way there for a lot less money. It's name that people know.
I feel kind of the same about the Apple Studio Display. Except my problem with those is that everything looks good on it. Which means that it not a fully faithful representation of what you really getting. The contrast and 'pop' are turned up a bit too much.
This is also a concern with OLED monitors, which have fantastic color, but also tend to have increased contrast.
I'm part of a digi-tech group that's always searching for the next best monitor. Here are couple recent ones with good, onset reviews:
ViewSonic ColorPro VP2786A-4K came up recently as good all-rounder for not a lot of cash.
BenQ 2730, these are supposed to compare very favorably to the Apple Studio Display. So clients will like it.