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Eizo has produced a fantastic LCD display but it sure ain't cheap.
I'd long heard about Eizo's monitors being a sort of "Ferrari" line of highend displays for photographers, but it wasn't until recently that I was able to take one for a test drive. And after pitting the new 24.1-inch Eizo ColorEdge CG2421W against my favorite 23-inch Apple Cinema HD display, I have to say the Eizo wins going away.
But according to how much you have to pay for this incredible LCD monitor, it really should be no contest. While there are many photographers out there who might already balk at Apple's $899 price tag for a 23-inch Cinema HD, that's actually a fraction of what the ColorEdge CG241W sells for. Street price on this high-end screen is a very spendy $2,345. AS the saying goes with Eizo monitors, though, you get what you pay for.
What surprised me about the ColorEdge CG241W wasn't its incredible resolution-which is native at 1920 ? 12OO-nor its wide color gamutit reproduces 92 percent of NTSC and 96 percent of the Adobe RGB color space-it was its ability to expertly handle moving images as well. I ran the frenetic car chase scene at the end of The Bourne Ultimatum on the Eizo monitor and found it was not only able to keep up with the action with no lag time but could maintain its high resolution with little or no down-rezzing or pixelization. This is likely due to the Eizo's very fast 6 ms gray-to-gray response time, which is a good...