Only Stephen would add a 4k display to a desk with a 24" and 30" already on it. ;-)
...green with envy.
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Robert Houghton <gfxguy74@gmail.com> wrote:
You could go the way of a traditional edit bay and have that large monitor mounted on the wall behind the desk. I think I would go blind with that much monitor that close to my eyes.
-Rob
On 5/6/2013 7:47 AM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:
Well, I got one of the cheap ($1200) Chinese Seiki 50" UHD TVs - first unit
was bad. Little tricky to get it to work as a desktop monitor but
replacement is up and running. Let me just say, I think 4K, both as a
display and as a TV is underrated. I'm much more blown away then I expected
to be. Since much of what I work on is 4K and greater, it makes a dramatic
difference in evaluating frames and shots.
This photo is clipped but also surprisingly, color and contrast are decent,
actually pretty good for a cheap LCD (10-bit panel) and there is an
accessible service menu if you have color probes and skilled calibrator. But
even a pass with a WOW disk and blue filter gives decent results. Not a
grading monitor for critical client grades but not a piece of crap either.
Cost savings seem to come from basic Chinese TV build quality, crappy audio,
bare bones menus, no feature set beyond TV, tuner and standard inputs.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a
progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the
meaning, all that comes later.
-Stanley Kubrick