Lacie 324, anyone using it?

[Edward Bussa]

I've been pondering a 24" LCD monitor purchase for months now. The Lacie 324 has a wide gamut, matching color calibration hardware/software, a hood, and 10-bit gamma translation hardware... seems like it would be a very nice monitor to use for photo editing.

Now, sometimes the specifications don't pan out into a useful real world product. Does anyone have experience with this monitor or maybe other Lacie monitors?

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Does anyone have experience with this monitor or maybe other Lacie monitors?

If it's even better than the LaCie 321 which I have, there won't be any regrets. The only thing negative I can come up with is that mine isn't completely uniform in brightness. Colors are good, and calibration gives accurate results with very little drift over time. The viewing angle is large without significant effect on color.

As far as I know the 321 is actually a NEC in LaCie branding, the same might be true for the 324. You might want to check if there is a price difference.

Bart

 

[Andrew Rodney]

The only thing negative I can come up with is that mine isn't completely uniform in brightness.

That's NOT good!

As far as I know the 321 is actually a NEC in LaCie branding, the same might be true for the 324. You might want to check if there is a price difference.

Its not. If you want a really good NEC SpectraView, get an NEC! Just the difference in software alone is major. LaCie doesn't make squat, they just OEM units, often not the top pick's off the assembly line.

 

[Edward Bussa]

Oh yeah... I've heard that LaCie is a rebranded NEC before... I forgot...

Thanks for steering me straight. I had been thinking of NEC for awhile but the integrated color calibration system with the LaCIe must've distracted me ... what's that shiny thing there in the corner ... oop! gotta go!