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Mac Studio and Eizo, OR iMac and Eizo?
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When you receive the monitor and have had time to try it out, it would be great to see a post with your observations. Or even to receive a short personal message saying what you think of it. I don't plan to replace my CS2740, but I'd love to see views from owners on the new monitors. I'm especially interested in how you feel about the WQHD resolution. The first thing you'll notice is that the build quality is quite a bit better than most of what's on the market.
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I certainly will do that. But, like I said, I’m prepared for a (very) long wait (but maybe I’m lucky....fingers crossed). There' s one more point that could be interesting. It seems that Eizo so far uses Panasonic panels. There is a rumour that with these new monitors LG is the supplier of these panels. Only a rumour, nothing more. Eizo is very secretive about all this (maybe they don' t even consider it noteworthy, and maybe it isn't). Sometimes dealers know and "cannot" say anything about this.
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FYI: Here is a discussion from a couple of years ago about dual screen setups, with some screenshots that you might find interesting: https://feedback.dxo.com/t/multi-screen-setup/16778/2
Back again. Last weekend I picked up my EIZO CG2700S. It now sits beside my 2019 27" iMac. I wasn't t used to a dual monitor setup at all (first time now), and it was pretty easy to install.
Differences are noticeable immediately. The iMac is the "loud and flashy" one, whereas the Eizo is much more "silent en modest"...just by first screen appearance. All had to do with my iMac settings ofcourse, but even setting brightness comparable to that of the Eizo and and using i1 Display Pro....there's still a visible difference in showing subtle gradations in colour. Here, the Eizo wins hands down. Calibration/profiling is way easier and much faster on the Eizo (internal calibration sensor). When profiled, I can simply switch between sRGB/Adobe ARGB/(many more), in one second. Brightness even more accurate.
I could have left the Eizo to all factory settings (perfectly ok), but ofcourse I wanted to learn how to calibrate/profile myself. Did this and that' s an interesting and instructive proces (and sometimes complicated;-) ). Still don' t know all inns and outs ofcourse. I' ll keep learning. Luckily I do not do video at all...no need for any video related profiles and profiling.For photography I' ll first stick to Adobe RGB and "Native" settings ("Native being a little larger than aRGB).
Profiled for printing.
So far I edited images on iMac. Then sometimes printed. I' ll most certainly use my Eizo monitor for the editing. The prints after editing on iMac, where good...but never really matched screen. So far, I' ve printed after using the CG2700S, and those prints are extremely close to screen (in fact identical to my eye). Wonderfull!
There' s still one thing to be solved....getting DXO to support 10-bit (!)...Photolab is my software of choice and I've posted this request again on their forum (was a long standing request already). I know Adobe supports 10-bit, but I don' t want to use that.
Now, the iMac still has a beautiful screen that is lovely to view images. After almost a week I switch between using iMac and Eizo as my primary or secondary screen (calibrated/profiled Eizo as primary screen). I' ll probably keep the Eizo as my primary screen. iMac is still wonderful for surfing internet/watching small film clips/etc.
So far (but only a week now), I really like this dual monitor setup. I can probably get a lot more out of this dual setup (didn't try to split tool pallets and image for instance/probably more....), but that will come when I' m more used to all this.
By the way...native 2560x1440 (Eizo) vs scaled 2560x1440 (iMac) doesn' t bother me one bit.
Differences are noticeable immediately. The iMac is the "loud and flashy" one, whereas the Eizo is much more "silent en modest"...just by first screen appearance. All had to do with my iMac settings ofcourse, but even setting brightness comparable to that of the Eizo and and using i1 Display Pro....there's still a visible difference in showing subtle gradations in colour. Here, the Eizo wins hands down. Calibration/profiling is way easier and much faster on the Eizo (internal calibration sensor). When profiled, I can simply switch between sRGB/Adobe ARGB/(many more), in one second. Brightness even more accurate.
I could have left the Eizo to all factory settings (perfectly ok), but ofcourse I wanted to learn how to calibrate/profile myself. Did this and that' s an interesting and instructive proces (and sometimes complicated;-) ). Still don' t know all inns and outs ofcourse. I' ll keep learning. Luckily I do not do video at all...no need for any video related profiles and profiling.For photography I' ll first stick to Adobe RGB and "Native" settings ("Native being a little larger than aRGB).
Profiled for printing.
So far I edited images on iMac. Then sometimes printed. I' ll most certainly use my Eizo monitor for the editing. The prints after editing on iMac, where good...but never really matched screen. So far, I' ve printed after using the CG2700S, and those prints are extremely close to screen (in fact identical to my eye). Wonderfull!
There' s still one thing to be solved....getting DXO to support 10-bit (!)...Photolab is my software of choice and I've posted this request again on their forum (was a long standing request already). I know Adobe supports 10-bit, but I don' t want to use that.
Now, the iMac still has a beautiful screen that is lovely to view images. After almost a week I switch between using iMac and Eizo as my primary or secondary screen (calibrated/profiled Eizo as primary screen). I' ll probably keep the Eizo as my primary screen. iMac is still wonderful for surfing internet/watching small film clips/etc.
So far (but only a week now), I really like this dual monitor setup. I can probably get a lot more out of this dual setup (didn't try to split tool pallets and image for instance/probably more....), but that will come when I' m more used to all this.
By the way...native 2560x1440 (Eizo) vs scaled 2560x1440 (iMac) doesn' t bother me one bit.
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Thinking ahead as always (variation on my original question)...and thinking out loud;
- (maybe) new Mac mini (M2?) instead of Mac Studio?
- (maybe) 24" iMac M1 instead of current Intel iMac? (could keep dual screen and 24" could be efficient enough and less space on desk)
- (maybe) get Mac Studio and my Eizo 2700S?
Oh well, at the moment I' m served very well. Only for future and time will tell
Thank you all for your advice!
- (maybe) new Mac mini (M2?) instead of Mac Studio?
- (maybe) 24" iMac M1 instead of current Intel iMac? (could keep dual screen and 24" could be efficient enough and less space on desk)
- (maybe) get Mac Studio and my Eizo 2700S?
Oh well, at the moment I' m served very well. Only for future and time will tell
Thank you all for your advice!
Hi @Dutch60. I really appreciate seeing your update. Very interesting that the WQHD display is working out just fine. If you haven't come across him already, there's a fellow on YouTube named Les Walkling who has some interesting videos on Eizo calibration.