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I perused Ezio's website, and found three B&W monitors they currently sell, their "GX" series. Looking at the specs, the thing that stands out to me is that the

by avhon1 6y ago

I perused Ezio's website, and found three B&W monitors they currently sell, their "GX" series. Looking at the specs, the thing that stands out to me is that they're really bright: 1,200 cd/m^2 for the GX240 and GX340, and a whopping 2,500 cd/m^2 for the GX560 ! I bet these monitors are brighter than equivalently-backlit color displays from not having a Bayer filter in front. Speculations on why medical monitors might be that bright: they can probably be better read in brightly-lit medical settings, shine through overlays and negatives placed over them, and be more easily read by some patients with poor vision. They also offer palettized grayscale: up to 1,024 tones from a palette of 16,369. I'm not sure how useful that is in practice, but is is a unique feature. https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx240/ https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx240/ https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx340/ https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx340/ https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx560/ https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx560/

artsyca 6y ago
It reminds me of back in the 68k Mac days you you could set your screen to 256 colors or thousands of colors or thousands of greys, where you had to choose a tradeoff of resolution and the greyscale mode was primarily for desktop publishing applications ah QuarkXPress and PageMaker.. From their website -- > 10-Bit Simultaneous Grayscale Display > 10-bit (1,024 tones) simultaneous grayscale display extends grayscale fidelity to the boundaries of human visual perception abilities and helps radiologists discern the finest nuances within an image.