Best budget monitor for photo editing

[MatthewBowker]

Hey everyone,

 

I'm looking to invest in a colour accurate monitor for my desktop which I will use primarily for photo editing in Lightroom and also for creating graphics and illustrations in Affinity Designer. My budget is £300-400 and I would ideally like 24" - 30" monitor. I have seen through a Linus Tech Tips video that you can buy a HP monitor which uses an old 21" iMac display and something like that but with the 27" iMac display would be awesome. I might do a little bit of gaming but I already have a monitor which is pretty good with refresh rates, latency etc but is unreliably inaccurate with it's colour. 

 

Let me know if you need anymore information and thanks in advance.

 

Cheers, Matt

[WereCat]

13 minutes ago, MatthewBowker said:

Hey everyone,

 

I'm looking to invest in a colour accurate monitor for my desktop which I will use primarily for photo editing in Lightroom and also for creating graphics and illustrations in Affinity Designer. My budget is £300-400 and I would ideally like 24" - 30" monitor. I have seen through a Linus Tech Tips video that you can buy a HP monitor which uses an old 21" iMac display and something like that but with the 27" iMac display would be awesome. I might do a little bit of gaming but I already have a monitor which is pretty good with refresh rates, latency etc but is unreliably inaccurate with it's colour. 

 

Let me know if you need anymore information and thanks in advance.

 

Cheers, Matt

Would this suit you?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ViewSonic-VX3211-2K-mhd-AdobeRGB-2560x1440-DisplayPort/dp/B0746P6L45/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534321811&sr=8-1&keywords=VX3211-2K-MHD

 

31.5" 1440p IPS

 

99% sRGB

87.66% Adobe RGB

82.55% NTSC

 

10-bit (8-bit + FRC)

1200:1 Static Contrast

250cd/m2 Brightness