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Curious, what screen resolution are you using?
Keith Simonian, Photographer
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Lafayette | CA | USA | Posted: 8:27 PM on 01.13.03 |
->> I ask the question, because I visited a photo web site today that stated it was best viewed at a resolution of 1280 x 1024. That seemed a rather interesting choice to me, because I figured not many people are using that resolution.
For the record, my 19" monitor is set at 1024 x 768. |
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Ed J. Szalajeski, Photographer
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Yarmouth | ME | USA | Posted: 8:41 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> Ditto, for me. 19" monitor is set at 1024 x 768 |
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Howard Curtis Smith, Photographer
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Baldwin | NY | USA | Posted: 8:51 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> 1280x854 on my Ti book. |
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Thomas Sapiano, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Toronto Area (Kleinburg) | ON | Canada | Posted: 9:23 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> 1600x1200 (21") |
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Zack Uribe, Photographer
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Santa Clara | CA | USA | Posted: 9:35 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> 1400 x 1050 Dell Laptop, 1280 x1024 17"LCD, 1280 x 1040 21" Monitor |
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Patrick Gallucci, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Plano | TX | US | Posted: 9:36 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> 1600x1200 IBM A31P |
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Andrew Malana, Photographer
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Tokyo | JP | Japan | Posted: 9:40 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> 1600x1200 IBM A22p 15" |
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Grover Sanschagrin, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Albany | CA | USA | Posted: 9:42 PM on 01.13.03 |
->> Oooh. This is a good poll question.
I'm running my MacIIsi at 640 x 480, 256 colors. |
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Keith Simonian, Photographer
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Lafayette | CA | USA | Posted: 10:07 PM on 01.13.03 |
->> For the people that are running the higher resolutions, how old are you?
I ask the question because us older folk have a hard time reading print that small.
Don't worry, it will happen to all you young wipper snappers.
And yes, I do remember the first Roosevelt administration. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Amherst | MA | USA | Posted: 10:12 PM on 01.13.03 |
->> My screen has resolution?
What's with these "millions of colours" things?
I think I am at 4 colours 320 x 240 :0) |
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Grover Sanschagrin, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Albany | CA | USA | Posted: 10:14 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> Keith: Older Americans should buy the new 17-inch PowerBook... you can have both! |
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Jason Burfield, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 10:30 PM on 01.13.03 |
->> Oh my God. Not that damn 17" Powerbook again.
My resolution: to not buy a 17" powerbook.
My SCREEN resolution: 2048 x 768
(dual 17" monitors on one machine. I like being different.) |
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Grover Sanschagrin, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Albany | CA | USA | Posted: 10:33 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> Are you saying that I should buy TWO 17-inch PowerBooks and link their monitors together for an ultra-wide experience? GOOD IDEA! |
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Doug Holleman, Photographer
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Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 11:15 PM on 01.13.03 |
| ->> I use 800 X 600 on a 19-inch monitor. Anything higher rez makes everything too small. I personally don't really see the point of having a bigass monitor if the fonts and images aren't going to be bigger and easier to read. Most monitors I have seen don't look as sharp when set higher than 1024 X 768 anyway. Besides, my web stats show that 800 X 600 is the most popular choice among people who view my sites, with 1080 close behind. Most websites seem to be layed out for those sizes. |
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Darren Carroll, Photographer
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Cedar Creek (Austin) | TX | USA | Posted: 11:40 PM on 01.13.03 |
->> Grover--
And if you hold the laptops on opposite sides of your head, you can get i-tunes in SURROUND SOUND!
A IIsi, huh? Man you're making me and my LCII look really old... |
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Tony Donaldson, Photographer
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Sherman Oaks | CA | USA | Posted: 10:09 AM on 01.14.03 |
->> MacIIsi?!? My first Mac. Was using one from the dark side before that.. Had a Radius monitor that rotated for full-page vertical viewing. 24 MB RAM and a 500 MB hard drive. A far cry from my first, a TI 99/4A with 16k of RAM and a cassette tape drive.
Currently run 1024x768 on both 17", dual monitor setup on my G4. Powerbook is also set for 1024x768. |
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Rich Pilling, Photographer
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New York | NY | U.S.A. | Posted: 10:48 AM on 01.14.03 |
->> I don't believe a word that Grover and Darren said. You shouldn't either.
Darren, my very old LC is in a box,stored up in my attic. Should I ship it to you via UPS? |
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Brian Jackson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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South San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 12:33 PM on 01.14.03 |
->> 21" viewsonic, dell gx240, suse 8 1280x1024
Hp pavillion something, win 98, 1600x1200 (same monitor as the linux box) go go gadget KVM :)
Personally built dual athlon MP 2100+, suse 8.0, 1600x1200 (again, same 21" viewsonic via the KVM)
3 toshiba tecra laptops, suse 7.1 1024x768
Keith - 30yo, 20/650 vision. I can't see 4" past my face w/o correction :(
Not only did I also have the Ti 99/4A, but I also had their first laptop(no, not a lugable): dual low density 3 1/2 floppies, non-backlit ~12" lcd screen. Ah, back in the days when entire applications fit on a low density 3 1/2 floppy(Lotus 123 v1.22 and EasyWriter). Only weighted about 13 pounds ;-)
Oh, I saw 2 of the 17" powerbook thingies the other day at an SBA class. It's not your normal 17" measurment. The screen is 17" WIDE, not diagonal. It is much shorter than it is wide, so it's not really a 17" screen in the sense of how screens are measured. Very letterbox in shape. Kinda like the HDTV or slimline digital TV's. |
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Brian Jackson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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South San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 12:37 PM on 01.14.03 |
| ->> Oh, I forgot to mention that I run my fonts around 16-18 size on the larger resolution screens. I like lots of things running: currently 3 Xterms, calculator, KNode newsreader, PixiePlus image viewer, The GIMP, 5 OpenOffice docs, and 9 netscape windows(granted it's netscape 7, so they're just in tabs and not actual windows). All this on 6 virtual desktops) |
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Paul W Gillespie, Photographer
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Annapolis | MD | USA | Posted: 5:33 PM on 11.02.06 |
->> Resurrecting an oldie here, but I just got a new Laptop with a wsxga+ 15.4 inch monitor and it is taking some getting used to. The native resolution is 1680x1050 and things are really small on screen. Anyone using this type of screen? Makes reading web pages a challenge. When I change the rez to something smaller the screen does not look as crisp and good as when it is at its native rez. Have not done any real photoshop work on it yet. We will see how it goes. Wish me luck.
Paul.
Oh I guess my main question is with the newer laptops and wide screen lcd's what resolution are you using now. |
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Ron Scheffler, Photographer
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Hamilton (Toronto area) | Ontario | Canada | Posted: 5:57 PM on 11.02.06 |
->> With web pages, you can usually increase the font size very easily. For example on a Mac it's just Apple + (as in plus) to increase font size.
1280x800 on my 13" MacBook as I write this. My tower is connected to two 20" widescreens at 1680x1050 each.
Sure text can be a problem but at least when working on images you don't need to scroll around them as much when zoomed in. |
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Jim Sykes, Photographer
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Montgomery Village | Md | | Posted: 6:13 PM on 11.02.06 |
->> I run 1920x1200 on my 23" Apple display and 1400x1050 on my laptop.
The biggest reason for higher resolution is so that you can see more of your image on the screen at once and so you can have multiple applications open at the same time. Real estate is a huge deal when dealing with several large resolution images and multiple applications at once.
As an aside, for those that have issues seeing the small text, Windows (and I'm sure Mac must have a version as well) has an option to use "large fonts" which will allow you to use the higher resolution so you can take advantage of getting as much image on the screen at once and still having text large enough to view easily. |
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Jim Davidson, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 6:21 PM on 11.02.06 |
->> 1920x1200 on my 24" desktop LCD. Same thing on my 17" laptop.
I only complain about font sizes on web pages that use CSS with no adjustable text size. Sometimes I cut-n-paste the text into notepad jst to read it. Otherwise, I love the resolution. |
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Jonathan Castner, Photographer
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Longmont | CO | USA | Posted: 6:38 PM on 11.02.06 |
| ->> I'm at 1280x1024 on my 19" Viewsonic LCD. That's it native resolution. My Dell laptop is 1280x800. |
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Andrew Wilz, Photographer
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Aspen | CO | usa | Posted: 6:48 PM on 11.02.06 |
->> grover... my mom still has our Mac Classic, as well as our old IIe and IIc. I think the IIc has a monochrome monitor that displays 2 colors... Green and Black. I can't remember the resolution, but i remember Qbert being very crisply displayed on it, in 1985 or so... Lemme know if you want it... I'm sure we can arrange shipping.
HP 17" dv8000 @ 1680x1050.... (when not using my IIc gaming-rig) |
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David Templeton, Assistant, Photographer
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Hammonton | NJ | USA | Posted: 8:29 PM on 11.02.06 |
->> screen1: 1680x1050 20"
screen2: 1280x1024 17"
and my 15.4" notebook is 1680x1050... i need glasses to drive but at least at close range i have good vision. |
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Mike Last, Student/Intern, Photographer
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London | Ontario | Canada | Posted: 8:34 PM on 11.02.06 |
->> 1920 x 1200 on my Dell Inspiron with a 15 inch monitor.
20/20 vision for me. |
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Guy Rhodes, Photographer
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East Chicago | IN | USA | Posted: 8:52 PM on 11.02.06 |
| ->> 1680x1050 Apple 20" Cinema Display |
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Nic Summers, Photographer
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Mount Prospect | IL | USA | Posted: 9:40 PM on 11.02.06 |
| ->> Dual 24" at 1920 x 1200 |
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Jason Jenkins, Photographer
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Las Vegas | NV | USA | Posted: 10:04 PM on 11.02.06 |
->> Office = 1920x1200 on a 24" Wide Screen
Laptop1 = 1440x900 on a 17" Wide Screen
Laptop2 = 1920x1200 on a 17" wide Screen
No problems reading any of the screens at 40 years young. |
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Michael Stevens, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 8:54 PM on 11.04.06 |
->> The last time I looked at the stats on one particular site of mine 1024x768 was the most common resolution... by like 70-75%. Following that was 1280x1024 & 800x600. Anything higher than or lower than those last two numbers is not worth considering when designing a web page.
Mike |
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Andrew Mo, Photographer, Assistant
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Manhattan Beach | CA | USA | Posted: 9:47 PM on 11.04.06 |
->> If you are using LCD displays, it is important to run the panel at its native resolution or a scaled resolution with a similar aspect ratio.
For instance:
A 19" monitor mentioned above may be a CRT or LCD.
Most CRT Monitors have a 4:3 display aspect ratio. 1024x768 fits this. CRTs generally do not have native resolutions.
Most LCD Monitors have a 5:4 display aspect ratio and have a native resolution of 1280x1024 (17" LCD monitors have the same native resolution).
If you are using your non-widescreen 17" or 19" LCD display at 1024x768 or anything that isn't a 5:4 display aspect ratio, the images you are seeing will be distorted and most likely what you will be seeing is a fuzzier picture than if you were at native resolution: 1280x1024.
The converse is also true, if you are using a CRT and run a 5:4 aspect resolution such as 1280x1024, all of your images will be squished relative to their true proportion.
Many older folks that wear glasses tend to turn the resolution down on their large displays simply to make everything appear bigger. Generally the resolution they pick does not match the native display resolution in aspect ratio -- So what they get is: Everything Bigger, yet Everything Fuzzier.
Some other miscellaneous general information for external panels:
17 or 19" LCD Panels:
1280x1024 native resolution
20" LCD Panels:
1600x1200 native resolution
20"-22" Widescreen LCD Panels:
1680x1050 native resolution
24" Widescreen LCD Panels:
1900x1200 native resolution
WXGA LCD Panels:
1280x800 native resolution
WSXGA LCD Panels:
1680x1050 native resolution
WUXGA LCD Panels:
1900x1200 native resolution |
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Paul W Gillespie, Photographer
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Annapolis | MD | USA | Posted: 10:40 PM on 11.04.06 |
->> Andrew thanks for the info. My math skills are not quite what they should be. What would be an appropriate downsized resolution for a WSXGA that keeps the ratio the same. Currently mine is set for 1680x1050 and when I make it smaller the screen looks bad.
Thanks
Paul |
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Andrew Sullivan, Photographer
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Kissimmee | FL | USA | Posted: 12:34 AM on 11.05.06 |
->> For some insight into what people looking at your page are set to, sign yourself up for Google Analytics. Another free beta deal, it lets you find all sorts of info about viewers... like where they live (scary!), what connection speed they have, and even how many are curious Sportsshooter.com message board enthusiasts.
And for the record, my 17" is set to 1280x1024
Andrew Sullivan
http://www.picandrew.com |
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Andrew Mo, Photographer, Assistant
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Manhattan Beach | CA | USA | Posted: 2:42 AM on 11.05.06 |
->> Paul,
Alternative resolutions for a WSXGA screen that preserve the 1.6:1 display ratio are:
1280x800
1440x900
Your graphics card/adapter may or may not support these resolutions. If not, consider checking for a driver update to see if these resolutions are supported.
The above resolutions share the same ratio with the optimal - native resolution of 1680x1050. Working at native resolution will give you the best representation possible for your computer display, and these options are your next best bet. |
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Charles Gawlik, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 11:17 AM on 11.05.06 |
->> According to the stats from my website logs this is the breakdown in percentages for the people that have visited my site for the past month:
1. 1024x768 - 47.42%
2. 1280x1024 - 14.99%
3. 1280x800 - 14.25%
4. 800x600 - 4.18%
5. 1680x1050 - 3.69%
6. 1440x900 - 3.69%
7. 1152x864 - 3.69%
8. 1440x960 - 1.47%
9. 1280x960 - 1.47%
10. 1280x768 - 0.98%
Charles |
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Keith Simonian, Photographer
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Martinez | CA | USA | Posted: 12:35 PM on 11.05.06 |
->> "Posted: 8:27 PM on 01.13.03
->> I ask the question, because I visited a photo web site today that stated it was best viewed at a resolution of 1280 x 1024.
That seemed a rather interesting choice to me, because I figured not many people are using that resolution.
For the record, my 19" monitor is set at 1024 x 768."
Things have changed since I posted that more than 3 years ago.
I now run a dual monitor LCD set up. One 19" and one 20" widescreen. The resolutions are 1280 x 1024 for the 19",
and the 20" widescreen is set at 1680 x 1050.
The screens get bigger, my eyes get worse. |
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