Lately, I have been having some printing problems – the infamous “prints too dark” that often comes with the switch over to an LCD monitor. Even though I regularly calibrate the monitor and tweaked my workflow and printer settings, many of my prints were dark and I had lost much of the shadow detail. An article in the August edition of Shutterbug by David Brooks says that the problem might simply be my using an LCD monitor. It seems that “prints too dark” is a widespread problem for photographers, and the solution may be as simple as switching back to a CRT monitor! OK, I was a good citizen and had recycled all my old CRTs after switching to LCDs, so what was I to do?
Supposedly a number of fairly decent CRTs can still be found on the web. Actually, after a little browsing I found that there are some really great values out there on some large CRTs and I am hoping they hold their price for just long enough that I can snatch up a couple.
There are some good LCD monitors for graphics work/photography use, if you want to pay $1500 or more. I’m going to go retro and will keep you posted about the switch.
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