Dell u2410 - more than happy!

[Kim Frank]

I just unpacked my new DELL Ultrasharp U2410.
I really struggled before ordering, because of all the quotes around the Internet about tints, dead pixels, color shifts, etc.
But I am glad to report, that besides it really neat design mine has no issues like that. It's a revision A02 built and cost me 477,-€.
The consumer Color modes, like gaming or Movie, do have extreme all over Color Shifts, but the pre Calibrated AdobeRGB abd sRGB,
look really nice out of the box. The AdobeRGB is slightly too warm and sRGB seems to have a little shift to green but really nothing
that couldn't be adjusted by calibration (I'm really talking fine tuning-nothing really visible).
Black levels are very nice, skin tones look correct and the wide viewing angle and Inputs will make it a very decent on Set Monitor for the Red.
Maybe I was lucky to get a good one, but I'm really happy I gave it a chance and saved a lot of money with my new desktop and set monitor.
I hope that the next days will hold up to my first impressions.

 

[Kim Frank]

Ah one question.
What profile should I use for calibration?
AdobeRGB or sRGB.
I'm working on a PC Windows7 and Adobe Master Collection.
At the moment it's feed straight out of the Nvidia GTX 470 with DVI-I.
I will get an X-Rite Eye One Pro for calibration.
So wich Profile is the best to start with?
Thanks in advance...

 

[Tim Hole]

Use the custom for calibration (I've calibrated mine with an eye-one and its great). AdodeRGB has a wider gamut than sRGB but you are right though it does appears slightly warm. The web used sRGB colorspace I believe. It is a very bright display though. Have been happy with it so far.

 

[Tom Gough]

sRGB is a good place to be.

Some info on sRGB:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB?wasRedirected=true

"sRGB uses the ITU-R BT.709 primaries, the same as are used in studio monitors and HDTV,[1] and a transfer function (gamma curve) typical of CRTs. This specification allowed sRGB to be directly displayed on typical CRT monitors of the time, a factor which greatly aided its acceptance."

All the best,

 

[Hans von Sonntag]

sRGB is a good place to be.

Some info on sRGB:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB?wasRedirected=true

"sRGB uses the ITU-R BT.709 primaries, the same as are used in studio monitors and HDTV,[1] and a transfer function (gamma curve) typical of CRTs. This specification allowed sRGB to be directly displayed on typical CRT monitors of the time, a factor which greatly aided its acceptance."

All the best,

Yes. And Rec709/BT.709 utilises approx. 2.4 to 2.35 gamma and a colour matrix which is very close to sRGB.

This means that with a good pre-calibrated sRBG set to gamma 2.35 you are very, very close to Rec709.

Hans