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I just got my new 21" Sony monitor and I have to say this thing is pretty damn impressive!
It actually looks pretty slick. It matches the Lian Li very well. I know I have to paint my keyboard tray. I'm thinking of painting the tray silver.
As impressive as the G520P is I have to say I was disappointed with one thing, that is it does not have USB control like my NEC. This is a minor issue as the jog lever is very easy to use and all adjustments have a numbered value associated with it. I have always liked the way Sony does HMI and the G520 is no exception, Sony does this so well. The monitor is relatively small in cubic dimensions for a 21" monitor. It has a 19.8" viewable area that is as flat as flat can be. It's not as big as its screen leads you to believe.
How does it look? Very nice indeed as it has a .24 uni-pitch over the entire screen. Typically aperture grill designs have always had 2 differing pitches across the screen with the corners being the coarser of the 2 (i.e. 0.25 center, 0.27 corners). I have not had a chance to calibrate it yet as I want to burn it in a bit before I do that. Out of the box it is set fairly well, I had to drop the contrast and decrease the brightness to get it in the ball park of where I like my monitors.
Text is nice and clean although not razor sharp like you would see on a LCD monitor; however this is not the strengths of this monitor. Graphical work is where it's at and already I can tell this is going to be a dream. Digital photos that use to look clear and sharp on my old monitor, now exhibit flaws with in the picture themselves that I had never seen before. This monitor really shows the limitations of my digital camera in certain situations (oh, oh, new camera time?). The biggest thing I'm noticing now is the chromatic aberrations in some photos that I never seen before. I use a Nikon 990 3.3 mega pixel camera and it is said to have slight CA at the widest lens angle. Although I have seen it before in some of my photos, I never realize how much
Color wise it looks beautiful with out being highly oversaturated. As I said earlier, it has not yet been calibrated, however I have no doubt its images and color rendition will be of the highest order.
Geometrically, I'm pleased with this monitor as it needed very little adjustment to bring the desktop to all corners of usable screen space. This pleases me for my biggest fear was it would have some bend in it that would drive me nuts. I tend to be fanatical about these things, such that it took me 4 monitors to get one I was happy with when I purchased my NEC. Need less to say that factored in to my decision to purchase this monitor locally rather than on line. It cost more in the end, however the amount was a barging for the piece of mind I now have that I can just drop this monitor off at the Sony store downtown should I experience any problems.
On feature that I really like on the G520P is the "Picture Effect" button on the panel. It is a predefined set of parameters that adjust the monitor's color, gamma, contrast and brightness for the intended application. Pressing the PE button cyclically runs through the 3 various settings:
Professional: Accurate and consistent display color for desktop publishing and graphic applications.
Standard: Images with high contrast and brightness, intended for commonly used applications, such as spreadsheets, word processing, e-mail or web surfing.
Dynamic: Extremely vivid and photo-realistic images. This mode is brighter than "Standard" mode and is set up for intense graphic applications such as games, DVD playback or entertainment software.
This is much like the 4 mode settings on my Sony XBR TV. I use those frequently, adjusting for the program material. I like it!
The monitor has 2 VGA inputs as it supports dual PC's. I can see this coming in handy for when I'm trouble shooting other's PC's. They always drop of just the box and I must disconnect my monitor to have a look at their system. Sure now I have a spare 19", however I can see this being handy for sure.
So that's the quick and dirty on my new monitor, I'm very pleased at this point and think it was money well spent.
Bing
It actually looks pretty slick. It matches the Lian Li very well. I know I have to paint my keyboard tray. I'm thinking of painting the tray silver.
As impressive as the G520P is I have to say I was disappointed with one thing, that is it does not have USB control like my NEC. This is a minor issue as the jog lever is very easy to use and all adjustments have a numbered value associated with it. I have always liked the way Sony does HMI and the G520 is no exception, Sony does this so well. The monitor is relatively small in cubic dimensions for a 21" monitor. It has a 19.8" viewable area that is as flat as flat can be. It's not as big as its screen leads you to believe.
How does it look? Very nice indeed as it has a .24 uni-pitch over the entire screen. Typically aperture grill designs have always had 2 differing pitches across the screen with the corners being the coarser of the 2 (i.e. 0.25 center, 0.27 corners). I have not had a chance to calibrate it yet as I want to burn it in a bit before I do that. Out of the box it is set fairly well, I had to drop the contrast and decrease the brightness to get it in the ball park of where I like my monitors.
Text is nice and clean although not razor sharp like you would see on a LCD monitor; however this is not the strengths of this monitor. Graphical work is where it's at and already I can tell this is going to be a dream. Digital photos that use to look clear and sharp on my old monitor, now exhibit flaws with in the picture themselves that I had never seen before. This monitor really shows the limitations of my digital camera in certain situations (oh, oh, new camera time?). The biggest thing I'm noticing now is the chromatic aberrations in some photos that I never seen before. I use a Nikon 990 3.3 mega pixel camera and it is said to have slight CA at the widest lens angle. Although I have seen it before in some of my photos, I never realize how much
Color wise it looks beautiful with out being highly oversaturated. As I said earlier, it has not yet been calibrated, however I have no doubt its images and color rendition will be of the highest order.
Geometrically, I'm pleased with this monitor as it needed very little adjustment to bring the desktop to all corners of usable screen space. This pleases me for my biggest fear was it would have some bend in it that would drive me nuts. I tend to be fanatical about these things, such that it took me 4 monitors to get one I was happy with when I purchased my NEC. Need less to say that factored in to my decision to purchase this monitor locally rather than on line. It cost more in the end, however the amount was a barging for the piece of mind I now have that I can just drop this monitor off at the Sony store downtown should I experience any problems.
On feature that I really like on the G520P is the "Picture Effect" button on the panel. It is a predefined set of parameters that adjust the monitor's color, gamma, contrast and brightness for the intended application. Pressing the PE button cyclically runs through the 3 various settings:
Professional: Accurate and consistent display color for desktop publishing and graphic applications.
Standard: Images with high contrast and brightness, intended for commonly used applications, such as spreadsheets, word processing, e-mail or web surfing.
Dynamic: Extremely vivid and photo-realistic images. This mode is brighter than "Standard" mode and is set up for intense graphic applications such as games, DVD playback or entertainment software.
This is much like the 4 mode settings on my Sony XBR TV. I use those frequently, adjusting for the program material. I like it!
The monitor has 2 VGA inputs as it supports dual PC's. I can see this coming in handy for when I'm trouble shooting other's PC's. They always drop of just the box and I must disconnect my monitor to have a look at their system. Sure now I have a spare 19", however I can see this being handy for sure.
So that's the quick and dirty on my new monitor, I'm very pleased at this point and think it was money well spent.
Bing
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It's 1020x768 max resolution just doesn't compare to the Sony's maximum 2048x1536. I run it at 1600x1200 and it really is superb! I ran it at it highest resolution and it actually still looked sharp, however the text is just to small for my feeble eyes. LCD's are nice, however, the limited resolution, screen door effect and blocky color really make it hard for me to love one...yet 
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