€500-ish monitor for photo editing?

[whoisjaya]

Hey, so I've been looking at monitors to buy for my mum (she's a professional photographer and mainly does portraits and weddings), and she's willing to spend about €500 (also willing to go over budget a bit if she ends up having to).

She'd like for the monitor to:

• have good skin tone reproduction
• have at least 100% sRGB coverage
• be at least 250 nits
• preferably be a 34 ish inch ultrawide

TYIA :)

[.wncry]

Not quite $500, but def worth it lol.

 

 

[Stahlmann]

Get a 32" 4K monitor like the LG32UN650-W, which is way under budget and then also buy a calibration device like an i1Display Pro. Then calibrate it manually and the result will be better than ANY pre-calibrated "professional" monitor.

 

In any case, monitor color drifts over time. So one that looks great out of the box might not be as accurate a few months down the line. So if she's using it to make money, a calibration device to recalibrate is a must either way.

[whoisjaya]

1 hour ago, Stahlmann said:

Get a 32" 4K monitor like the LG32UN650-W, which is way under budget and then also buy a calibration device like an i1Display Pro. Then calibrate it manually and the result will be better than ANY pre-calibrated "professional" monitor.

 

In any case, monitor color drifts over time. So one that looks great out of the box might not be as accurate a few months down the line. So if she's using it to make money, a calibration device to recalibrate is a must either way.

Thank you for you response!
Of course I'm aware you have to re-calibrate your monitor every now and then, and she obviously owns a calibration device, the 32UN650-W actually looks quite good for the price, thanks a lot!