THE budget editing monitor is here. Dell 2209WA!

ChasP505 wrote in post #9724807
As the monitor "breaks in" it will lose some brightness anyway. I run mine at 10% Brightness and it gives 110cd/m2 luminance.

I was wondering, I recently nudged my brightness up a little bit as it seemed like it was getting a little bit dimmer (not much, just barely noticeable).

ChasP505 wrote in post #9724807
As the monitor "breaks in" it will lose some brightness anyway. I run mine at 10% Brightness and it gives 110cd/m2 luminance.

The ambient light reading from my Spyder3Pro is almost always "Medium" which is supposed to be 175-200 cd/m^2. Would this suggest that I need to turn the brightness up or should the monitor brightness be slightly less than ambient?

Under the same lighting when I do the brightness adjustment part of the Spyder3Pro calibration I need to turn the brightness down to what you're recommending (actually zero is best, but I turned it up to 5).

Bob_A wrote in post #9725290
The ambient light reading from my Spyder3Pro is almost always "Medium" which is supposed to be 175-200 cd/m^2. Would this suggest that I need to turn the brightness up or should the monitor brightness be slightly less than ambient?

I'll probably get flamed (again) for this, but I suggest you turn off the ambient light function and just pretend it doesn't exist.

ChasP505 wrote in post #9726781
I'll probably get flamed (again) for this, but I suggest you turn off the ambient light function and just pretend it doesn't exist.

No flamin' from me. I always have ambient light compensation set to off.

I used "Spyder3Utility" to manually take a light reading.

I just ordered a pair of 2209WA's. I sure hope they live up to the hype!

Bob_A wrote in post #9725290
...should the monitor brightness be slightly less than ambient?...

I think the monitor should be, ever so slightly, the brightest light source in the room. In other words, slightly brighter than overall ambient light conditions. When I work at home, the only other light is a print viewing lamp and it doesn't shine on my screen. At my office, I work in a typical bright fluorescent corporate office environment, but still following the same rule.

snyper77 wrote in post #9732416
I just ordered a pair of 2209WA's. I sure hope they live up to the hype!

dont worry, they will!

i have this screen love it but can it be wall mounted to many little grubby hands in my house.

Cheers shane

Just opened the box and turned it on, this display is great. Can't wait to calibrate it.

Jason C

I got this monitor and the bottom 2 inches of the screen is a yellow color. Not all that noticeable, but for a photographer it is. After 2 hours on the phone with Dell, I was able to get a shipping label to return the monitor. My Studio XPS desktop that I just got a week ago has a faulty DVD burner. I spent nearly 4 hours on the phone yesterday trying to get it all returned.

They finally gave me the shipping labels and everything is going back. I will never buy another thing from Dell. Their customer service is the absolute worst I have dealt with. Dell may be saving money outsourcing their customer service to India, but I'm sure they lose a lot of customers because of the horrible service they provide.

dawssvt wrote in post #9772377
I got this monitor and the bottom 2 inches of the screen is a yellow color. Not all that noticeable, but for a photographer it is. After 2 hours on the phone with Dell, I was able to get a shipping label to return the monitor. My Studio XPS desktop that I just got a week ago has a faulty DVD burner. I spent nearly 4 hours on the phone yesterday trying to get it all returned.

They finally gave me the shipping labels and everything is going back. I will never buy another thing from Dell. Their customer service is the absolute worst I have dealt with. Dell may be saving money outsourcing their customer service to India, but I'm sure they lose a lot of customers because of the horrible service they provide.

Yikes. I had a great experience with them. I thought I had a couple of dead pixels in the middle of the screen after I got the monitor. I emailed them and received a response after a couple of hours that they would be shipping out a replacement monitor the next day. That night I turned on the monitor and couldn't find a single bad pixel. I emailed them back and asked if they could cancel the replacement. They emailed me back after about 20 minutes and everything was straightened out.

I guess it may be better to just email them instead of calling.

DDCSD wrote in post #9772467
Yikes. I had a great experience with them. I thought I had a couple of dead pixels in the middle of the screen after I got the monitor. I emailed them and received a response after a couple of hours that they would be shipping out a replacement monitor the next day. That night I turned on the monitor and couldn't find a single bad pixel. I emailed them back and asked if they could cancel the replacement. They emailed me back after about 20 minutes and everything was straightened out.

I guess it may be better to just email them instead of calling.

Yea, I think it's a little harder when dealing with desktops or laptops. I did email them about the monitor, but got through via phone before they wrote me back.

I decided to splurge on the 27" Quad Core i7 iMac, so I'm more than happy!

I'm lovn' this display!

Jason C

Jason C wrote in post #9778321
I'm lovn' this display!

Jason C

Good to hear Jason!

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