NEC SpectraView Reference 2690
"… The results were interesting and, at times, spectacular…"
Mike McNamee gives it a long hard staring at!
This is a new product and one that we saw for the first time at Focus on
Imaging, as reported last issue. During our discussions on the stand at
Focus we were sufficiently impressed to ask for a review model to be
provided, so we could really give it the once over. The feature is, by its
nature, long and involved. This is needed; it is a long involved subject
about which we receive numerous phone calls for advice!
The 2690 is one of a trio of 'reference' grade monitors currently on offer
from NEC. They are the 30-inch 3090, the 26-inch 2690 and (most recently
announced) the 24-inch, 2490. The two larger models are billed as having H-IPS,
the smaller has IPS (horizontal in-plane switching). All three have very
wide viewing angles of 178° and claim gamut volumes of 107% of Adobe RGB
colour space. All three come with detachable hoods and the excellent
SpectraVision software for calibration (more on that later).
We tested the 2690 on our Professional Imagemaker workstation, a Windows
Vista machine with two NVIDI Quadro FX 570 graphics cards, along with a
number of other monitors we managed to gather together. The results were
interesting and, at times, spectacular – read on!
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