BenQ has introduced the SW271C, an improve to the photographer-favorite SW271, its newest color-accurate skilled monitor designed for photographers. The corporate says that it brings top-tier skilled monitor expertise to a broad viewers at an inexpensive value.
This explicit monitor is an IPS panel that’s LED edge-lit and gives a 1000:1 native distinction ratio, and 300 nits of peak brightness. Whereas the monitor does help a number of HDR modes, that peak brightness is probably going too low to supply sturdy copy of HDR content material, nonetheless. Nonetheless, the 5-millisecond reply time and 60Hz refresh fee together with the promise of 10-bit shade (8-bit by way of FRC).
The SQ271C makes use of BenQ’s proprietary AQCOLOR shade accuracy expertise, has a 16-bit 3D-LUT (up from 14-bit within the SW271), and covers 99% of Adobe RGB, 100% of sRGB, and 90% of DCI-P3 shade areas. The corporate says that this monitor assures confidence in shade and has earned Pantone Validation, is Calman Prepared, and is Calman Verified. It additionally helps video calibration with Mild Phantasm by LightSpace.
BenQ says its Uniformity Know-how ensures that its shade accuracy extends monitor-wide, is exact from corner-to-corner, and has consistency. The monitor is {hardware} calibrated which permits customers to regulate the inner imaging processing chip with out altering a graphic card’s output info, and pictures match the unique content material with out influence from the graphic card setting. The corporate moreover ships every monitor’s distinctive manufacturing facility calibration report within the field. On this word, the monitor moreover helps third-party {hardware} calibration.
On the base of the monitor is what BenQ calls its “Hotkey Puck G2.” This puck is for easy accessibility to shortcuts that may be for totally different shade modes. For instance, the puck can swap rapidly amongst Adobe RGB, sRGB, black and white, Rec.709, DCI-P3, and HDR.
These shortcuts are additionally, after all, customizable and BenQ has a specialised viewing mode referred to as Gamut Duo which permits for comparative views in several shade areas. BenQ says that photographers can preview prints on-screen with practically an identical properties to hardcopies with the corporate’s Paper Shade Sync Software program.
The monitor may be linked by way of USB-C (and helps 60-watt charging), but additionally options two HDMI 2.zero ports and a single DisplayPort (v1.4). It additionally features a USB-3.1 Hub for two USB downstreams and one USB upstream. It additionally packs an SD-card reader.
BenQ says that the monitor can be appropriate for modifying HDR video with help for each HDR10 and HLG (however as talked about, the monitor’s peak brightness could have hassle correctly displaying the brightest factors of HDR content material). It will probably moreover help 24p, 25p, and 30p (along with 60p) video of their native cadences, which is a notable enchancment over the SW271 which couldn’t. One other additional advantage: choose SDI to HDMI units are suitable with SW271C, permitting videographers to switch non-compressed content material for improved picture high quality.
The shading hood pictured beneath ships with the monitor as effectively.
There are a number of little issues that make this better-suited for hybrid shooters who’re primarily coping with nonetheless pictures however need the flexibility to edit some video. The help for native cadences from 24p by means of 60p is a good addition on the video entrance, and HDR help is good even should you may not see it in all its glory. For photographers, the massive updates are the 16-bit 3D LUT (up from 14 bits within the SW271), the brand new uniformity perform (which ought to translate into extra even brightness and colours throughout the total show, although it’s LED edge-lit), and the help for third get together {hardware} calibration (beforehand you had to make use of BenQ’s personal software program should you needed to {hardware} calibrate your monitor, all else was software program calibration).
The SW271C is suitable with each Mac and Home windows and is available for $1,600 beginning at present.
