LaCie 319, 19" LCD Computer Graphics Monitor with CRT Grade Color Gamut, with Hood & Calibration Software, for Mac & Windows.

Specially designed for color experts such as graphic designers, photographers and pre-press technicians, this superb 19 monitor displays smooth gradients and superior color. The LaCie 319 utilizes an S-IPS TFT panel, offering a CRT-grade color gamut, an excellent contrast ratio of 600:1 and wide 178° viewing angles. Achieve reliable color rendering with its embedded 10-bit gamma correction and associated LaCie blue eye pro calibration software. Fully adjustable, it can be height-adjusted, tilted, swiveled and rotated a full 90° to portrait mode.

Expansive color range:
The LaCie 300 Series monitors utilize the most advanced LCD technology available today, in conjunction with high-end backlighting. As a result, they offer the benefit of a CRT-grade color gamut in a flat screen monitor. The broad gamut of colors displayed by your 300 Series monitor is a wide 72% of the NTSC (National Television System Committee) video standards gamut and 100% of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) gamut.

Exceptional color purity:
The LaCie 300 Series monitor's panel presents pure, vibrant colors across the entire range. In a side-by-side comparison with other TFTs, its panel exhibits superior color clarity, which can be appreciated in pure white, pitch black, and saturated color areas. With strong contrast ratios and impressive luminance, it offers graphic artists the advantage of a larger dynamic range to use. The expansive viewing angles prevent gray scale inversion or any loss of contrast from the widest range of vantage points.

Smooth color gradients:
With 10-bit gamma correction, the LaCie 300 Series monitor provides the finest caliber of gamma control, expressly engineered for serious digital imaging professionals. Whereas traditional 8-bit gamma allows for only 256 tonal options, 10-bit gamma expands the tonal range to 1024, smoothing color gradation and vastly improving image precision and accuracy.

Consistent gradient tones are produced by internally converting each 8-bit RGB color channel to 10 bits automatically, thus preventing banding. By either preset or custom settings from 0.5 4.0, gamma can be adjusted in increments of 0.1 for maximum flexibility. This allows for smooth transitions in color gradients present in areas such as skin tones or shaded black-and-white images.

Premium viewing conditions: On the LaCie 300 Series monitors, contrast and color remain the same from all viewing angles all the way up to 176-178°. Whether sitting or standing, and whether to the right or left of the display, colors retain their integrity. In practice, this means that several professionals can simultaneously work on the same monitor and share an identical view of its colors. For the most demanding color related tasks, such as photo retouching and on-screen proofing, the LaCie monitor hood ensures that external lighting conditions and surrounding light sources do not interfere with the document's intrinsic colors.