Currently I am trying to replace my broken digital picture frame with a mini-pc and monitor. Due to space constraints the monitor should be 19" or at most 21". I would love to have one which covers AdobeRGB but cannot find one.
Does anybody have a suggestion?
Hermann-Josef
I would say this will be mission impossible. Also I would question if you would even notice if the monitor “only” has sRGB when used as a picture frame.
On my desktop I have an sRGB monitor next to my Eizo. There is a huge difference!
Hermann-Josef
because you can compare them side by side.
now properly export into srgb. take the srgb monitor to the place where the picture frame would be and display the srgb image there.
I am kinda sure you will come to the conclusion that looks good enough for a picture frame.
Why should the picture frame be less critical in terms of colour fidelity than my PC monitor?
Hermann-Josef
because you have a less controlled light environment. your viewing distance and angle will be not optimal. ask yourself how often you really pay attention to all the details you see on the screen and how often you will appreciate the color accuracy of the picture. or if it is more important to see a reminder of a nice scene or a great moment that you captured.
How much time did you really spend looking at the picture frame that just died?
e.g. as a comparison … I often hand out prints from an fuji instax printer to people. Could I get a higher quality if I would print it on a larger and more expensive photo printer? sure. but you dont want to know how many people are happy with just having that little reminder on the fridge or so.
I wont stop you if you really want it. but I wonder if it is more a thing of “i have put some arbitrary requirement into my head and now i want to die on that hill” or a real necessity for your situation.
personally if you really want to go down this route i would pay more attention to brigtness and power use.
Thanks a lot for your thoughts. Yes, you are absolutely correct in what you say. However, I invest quite some time to work on my images and store them in AdobeRGB. So my thought was to keep them that way.
But it seems that indeed it is “mission impossible” since there are no small monitors with AdobeRGB available.
So I will end up with a batch job in my image processing software to convert my images into sRGB…
Hermann-Josef
If you are willing to drop down to 15.6" there are quite a few “portable” monitors that have 95%+ adobeRGB.
Could you name some of them?
A search on amazon or newegg will get you the info you seek
You can get P3 ones…not quite what you want but better than srgb and close to what phones and laptops are using.
If you search you might find a more well know brand
If I demand excellence, I would be hesitant to buy low volume and/or untested products. Are the claims legitimate? Is the product reliable with the correct gamut, illumination, viewing angle, without fragility or bad pixels? Is it a scam?
But the alternative—buying custom or enterprise solutions—may not be feasible or may be prohibitively expensive.
Thanks to all of you for your input.
Hermann-Josef