2007.02.06: NEC LCD2690WUXi

My new proofing display arrived at my studio late Monday evening. Spec sheet highlights like 91%+ of Adobe RGB colours (compared to roughly 70% for most decent displays), 12bit lookup table, and factory profiling of the surface of the entire LCD to map out imperfections and eliminate them plus soon to be released updated Spectraview software to work with existing spectrophotometers to directly calibrate the colour lookup table through hardware only hint at the beauty beneath the boxy shell of the winner of 2007's MacWorld Best of the Show award. Mere moments after software profiling the display with the Eye One Pro and ProfileMaker 5 my spine began to tingle. I whisped through some new photos from my trip to South East Asia and the display met me with colours that I had never seen before outside of real life. In fact, many of these colours were out of reach of most of the media combinations for the Epson 9800 or even the Epson 9600 w/ the unstable Nanochrome inkset. I'll have a full review up in a few days. Check back soon.