RE: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

>Most people are using 17" monitors these days,
>which is the sweet spot in the pricing structure right now

Not in my neck of the woods. Actually, at least where I live, 19" monitors
are the current popular models and tend to be the sweet spot in terms of
pricing.  I would venture to say that this has been the case for the last
year or more.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:26 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution




Austin Franklin wrote:

> The right tools for the job.  Having a 'resolution' of at least 1280x1024
is
> not untypical for most people who do image editing.  In fact, I'd bet most
> on this list have 1600 x 1200.
>
  I'd bet you are wrong. Most people are using 17" monitors these days,
which is the sweet spot in the pricing structure right now, and although
people doing scanning "might" push that number a bit, I still would be
surprised whether this list would skew results much from the norm.
Further, there are many non-americans on this list and monitors are a
heck of a lot more expensive outside of "consumerland".  Lastly, even if
my video card and monitor can produce 1600 x 1200 pixel screen, I'd be
unlikely to use it that way, due to the way it would shrink icons,
cursor and tool sizes on a 17" screen.

Art
Art

> You can buy a decent monitor for around $400 (the one I am using now for
> most of my image editing I paid $375 for...it's a Hitachi 802U
> SuperScan...and is damn good).  Video cards are around $100 that support
> this kind of resolution...
>
> Unless you are using a notebook, which is a horrible image editing
> environment anyway...you really might want to consider upgrading your
> monitor/video card.
>
> This is like saying programmers should limit their program size so they
can
> fit on floppies...or something like that...  Do you at least have a CD ROM
> drive?
>