Some Q's about monitors ?

I am in the market for a 27 inch monitor.

After a not so good experience using an Acer CP5271U for a few days, not very helpful chat and phone support, I returned it because it had a strong green bias (to my eyes) and colors were a little off (to my eyes again), I am now in search for the "sweet spot" monitor. One that is not very expensive but one that covers 100% sRGB.


I was comfortable with the native resolution on the above monitor with QHD, but I didn't see too much difference in image quality if I didn't look closely compared to my Dell U2412M.


I have a few questions so please bear with me.

1. Do I get QHD or 4K resolution ?
2. How does 4K scaling look like on 27 inch? Will everything get uncomfortably smaller especially the size of fonts in photo editing software?

After you have discussed the and made your points on the above, here is a question that will murky up the water - shall I get a 32 inch? You really don't need to answer it, as I'm set with a 27, but your input might sway me...

Thank you

I have a Dell P2715Q 27", 4K monitor it was a major improvement for me as I had been editing non a 15" MacBook screen before getting the Dell. I like everything about it except that they type in Lightroom controls gets small for my old eyes. I know there are adjustments I can make in the OS but I can't remember why it did not work for Lightroom. I am not home to test it again.

If I was buying a monitor now I would get a 32" 4K monitor.

A 4K monitor has 1.39x more pixels (3840) than my 2560x1440 27"IPS monitor that I have had for a number of years. I find that to be about the limit of shrinking text to not require scaling by the O/S display setup.
So I would choose 37" minimum diagonal measure if selecting a 4k monitor for computer use, so as to avoid the need for text scaling for readabililty.

Scaling for 4K depends on your OS and applications you use. At this point, I only have a couple older programs that don't support "highDPI" scaling. Windows 10 or 11 is pretty good about scaling them (if you adjust settings in the compatibility tab of that program's properties). Adobe apps have supported highDPI for awhile-with PC, it's limited if you have a license that's CS6 or below (but again, I find the new Windows scaling settings to do a pretty good job of scaling font and buttons). What I do like about 4K is that the denser pixel pitch makes it easier to see what's in focus and depth of field (I sit close enough to see it).

This is my 27in monitor running at 4k (3840x2160). The scaling is set to the Windows recommended 150% (same in Win11 as it was in Win10). I opted for a 4k monitor over HD/QHD resolution so I could view full size images from my camera (6720 x 4480) with the least amount of zoom. A 32in monitor was beyond my budget but would require less text scaling to still be easy on the eyes. Google says 8k pixel dimensions are 8K: 7,680 x 4,320 = 33,177,600 pixels so it seems like an 8k 32in monitor would be ideal.

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chuckmiller wrote in post #19377560
This is my 27in monitor running at 4k (3840x2160). The scaling is set to the Windows recommended 150% (same in Win11 as it was in Win10).

As I stated in post 3, 4K monitor has 40% more pixels than a 2560x1440 monitor, so a 4K monitor needs to be at least 40% larger, or the scaling of fonts will need to be at least 40% greater if the monitor size is the same, to retain same level readability. Your 150% scaling illustrates my point.

Extrapolating, 8K has 7580 pixels horizontally, vs. my 2560 pixels, 7580/2560=3 so for same readability as my 27" 2560x1440, the 8k monitor would need to be 23.5" (my 27" monitor's horizontal) * 3 = 70.5" ... got enough desk space?! or the O/S has to scale text 300% if same size monitor.

Just a quick update. I have a Dell U2723QE [27" 4K] now that I'm calibrating... Scaling on Windows 10 works nicely.

Are you happy with it so far?

So far it's ok, nothing to brag about... color looks similar to my old Dell U2412M (to my eyes anyway)... only advantage of the new monitor is the resolution and size...