HP LP2475w (LCD monitor - 24")

Pros: Vivid colours, wide-gamut, tons of inputs - probably can last at least 8 years if taken care of. Colour acuracy didn't test since no hardware to calibarate, but other pro reviewers says its is great. Excellent functional design.

Cons: It is quite expensive elsewhere (~=800). Other than that, none really. Price in US is cheap (~= USD600).

Summary: For those complaining about excessively oversaturated colours -- this actually why you are paying more for a wide-gamut monitor! It takes a bit of getting used to if you just came from a TN monitor world. But the moment you put a good photo, then you will appreciate they way it is.
In any case, you do need to calibarate this a bit -- just don't expect it to look like a cheaper TN monitor!


I am not using this for pro colour work, but as a photo enthusiast, I know I must be missing something as all my photos somehow looks discoloured or plain dull in most TN-based monitors. Either that or they look compeletely artificial on cheap TN monitors. Also, I know something is missing when a picture of a blue sky shading from blue to slightly light blue shows banding and/or dithering. It is just something that cannot be attributed to the source (taken with Nikon D80/90 with Nikkor lenses).

So finally, this H-IPS monitor came to within the affordability range, and WOW! What a difference a wide-gamut monitor makes. Immediately looking at my stock photos, it reminded me of looking at (for those that remember) Kodachrome slides! The colours are rich and stands out the way they should, as how I remember the scenes. The greens of the grass are brilliant but not artificial, and red Ferrari at sunset looks as magnificent as when I saw it - not the strangely tinted or artificial red I see on some laptops and TN monitors.

Especially on most laptop monitors, the viewing angle is so narrow that you never get the same colour each time you look at a scene! Www.lagom.nl has an excellent test photo to demonstrate this!


I cannot compare to how well this monitor performs with other IPS based monitors, but definitely would recommend this to anyone who wants to appreciate their hard taken photos in all their proper glory.

I did follow some simple calibaration steps by googling various sites for guides, and basically looking at how pleasing it looks comparing with a white paper. For sure, the default settings are too bright and colours need to be corrected. Mine follows roughly that from the review of TFT Central.

Updated on Apr 9, 2010

For those who don't have the benefit of looking at legendary Kodachrome slides (since they are discontinued by Kodak now), the reds to stand out in a scene - almost artificially in a light box. However, once you put it a person and check the skin tones, they look great -- and this is exactly how my pictures being displayed on this monitor remind me of. The other colours that really got me going were the grass lit by the slightly yellow tint of a sunset - it is very hard, almost impossible to produce the 'right' grass colour on a TN monitor. On my laptop they look dull, on two of my desktop monitors they look either dull or are colour tinted.