A photographer dream? New iMac with 27", 14.7 megapixel (5K) retina display
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/8496/dell-previews-27inch-5k-ultrasharp-monitor-5120x2880
Dell announced their monitor with this panel a while ago.
This is one of two displays I hope to be using moving forward over the next five or six years (the other being a 120hz 4K panel).
Dell announced their monitor with this panel a while ago.
This is one of two displays I hope to be using moving forward over the next five or six years (the other being a 120hz 4K panel).
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2.5k just for the monitor as opposed to same price for a full-fledged desktop (that includes monitor) ... that's the difference here.
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3kramd5 said:
That's the minimum config. You can upgrade to 32Gb memory and a 1Tb SSD drive. Also has two thunderbolt ports and 4 USB 3 ports. You would typically add a thunderbolt RAID for your photo storage, leaving the internal for the OS and applications.
This would be similar to what you would do with a maxed out MacPro that contains 12 cores, 64Gb, a 1Tb internal drive, 6 thunderbolt ports and 4 USB 3 ports that can handle 3 4K displays or 6 thunderbolt displays.
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3kramd5 said:
We have 10 iMacs in the studio..... They are completely reliable workhorses and none of us would rather sit at a laptop with an even smaller screen and weaker config.
I'd pay for this if I had the money right now... I wouldnt pay for a Pro unless I had to work on a feature of some kind and needed raw power to shorten render times etc.
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I have never cared for the all-in-one imac design. I prefer my peripherals to remain separate and easily switchable in case something breaks or there is an upgrade.
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3kramd5 said:
The speed of Thunderbolt allows an external drive to perform to the full potential of its internals, whether spinning disk or solid state. Given a fast enough connection, there is no performance downside to the drive being external.
The upside is upgrading of storage without any disassembly, the downside is more clutter if you have several drives.
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Wide colour gamut? IPS? Matte screen? Unless the answer to all three is "yes", then the answer to the title of this post is "no".
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It is a POS! Who cares about a 5K display if it is only sRGB
"5120‑by‑2880 resolution with support for millions of colors"
Millions? What about BILLIONS... like 1.07 Billion give or take to be exact.
This is the problem I see with most 4K or 4K plus displays, lack of color depth.
The ASUS PB287Q may only be a 4K monitor but it handles 60x more colors.
All you hear people harp on is Dynamic Range... Dynamic Range... And then you throw away a BILLION colors?
I am sure it is a "nice" display, and it is a "big" foot print. But I like colors... Lots of colors.
And even if you do get one of the few 1 Billion+ display monitors that are out there, so still need a card that can handle that as well.
"5120‑by‑2880 resolution with support for millions of colors"
Millions? What about BILLIONS... like 1.07 Billion give or take to be exact.
This is the problem I see with most 4K or 4K plus displays, lack of color depth.
The ASUS PB287Q may only be a 4K monitor but it handles 60x more colors.
All you hear people harp on is Dynamic Range... Dynamic Range... And then you throw away a BILLION colors?
I am sure it is a "nice" display, and it is a "big" foot print. But I like colors... Lots of colors.
And even if you do get one of the few 1 Billion+ display monitors that are out there, so still need a card that can handle that as well.
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I think I´ll stay with my Eizo i bit longer. My post processing skills does not deserve any more resolution ...
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dilbert said:
Funny. Most of the professionals I know are using wide gamut monitors.
Most of the people out there don't use color calibration either.
In the end you must decide what you value.
Does it matter?
I would much rather shoot in RAW and work with a full color calibrated atmosphere and see the difference of color depths, than work in a downscaled sRGB environment.
And yes, I do down scale and convert the images I post to the web to the sRGB color space, but the base of all I do is Adobe RGB.
I would much prefer having a 4K Asus ART monitor with 1.07 Billion colors than a 5K iMac Retina with 16.7 Million colors.
color and color depth are kind important
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leGreve said:
I don't doubt their reliability. My MBPs have been mainly reliable. And no, I wouldn't rather sit at a laptop either; that isn't what I'm saying. What I am saying is this: you give up expandability with all in ones just like you do with laptops; you give up portability with all in ones and traditional desktops. Each of the three systems gives up something. All in ones give up more. If I'm tied to a desk, I want a tower with all it brings (easy swapping or addition of components, multiple video card options, multiple hard drive options, optical drive options, etc). If not, I want a laptop. However, this obviously works for some people and that's great.
e17paul said:
The upside is pretty minor given modern chassis design. It's really easy to replace drives. I run 4 internal drives, and keep two open SATA ports for when I swap out the main data drives (currently they're 4TB). Pulling the drives and putting in new ones is easy. On the other hand, I hate clutter. That's a big downside for me. I have an external drive tucked away out of sight which I use for temporary external backup, but my main backup solution is cloud based, so I don't need nearly as much external storage as internal storage.
e17paul said:
Out of curiosity, can you build RAID arrays over thunderbolt (heh, I think these days we can all ignore the "I" in that particular initialism).
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