Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
by steve_adams_86 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:41AM
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I enjoy having a high quality display for all kinds of reasons. Better comfort while programming, accurate colour representation while looking at photos, having a good sense of what things might look like for others (accurate colour means you might be the middle ground of your users experiences, inaccurate colour means you can’t be sure at all), and otherwise, if I’m going to spend a lot on something I’ll own for half a decade I would prefer to get something accurate. The price difference isn’t sufficient enough to justify saving a little bit to have a poor colour experience.
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> accurate colour means you might be the middle ground of your users experiences, inaccurate colour means you can’t be sure at all
Having a setup with multiple cheap monitors is imho really underrated for design and development. Moving something between screens and seeing clear contrast disappear, or see pleasing color choices turn ugly can be eye opening.
Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
by thewebcount on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @04:20PM
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Agreed! Back when I was in music school, they brought in Tony Bonjiovi[0], a well-known record producer at the time. He talked about how the ultimate test of any recording was to copy it to a cassette, take it out to the engineer's Camaro with 1 broken speaker and see how it sounded there. If it sounded good there, it would sound great anywhere else.
Agree with your general stance. My current monitors are from 2007 and have endured many hours of use and a capacitor replacement.
I am considering my next purchase on the basis of at least 5 years of service and that is a long time to be looking at something "not quite right".