Display: 24.1” WUXGA IPS color management monitor with 1920 x 1200 resolution, 250 nits brightness
Aspect Ratio: 16:10 | 178°/178° Viewing Angles for clarity from any viewpoint
AQ Color Technology: Individually factory-calibrated to 100% sRGB, 95% DCI-P3 and 99% Adobe RGB standards and Technicolor Color Certified for precise color quality
Specialized Designer Modes: Black & White Mode, Black Level, 3D-LUT customize display settings to enhance productivity and precision Delta E < 2
Connectivity: HDMI 1.4 x 1, DP 1.2 x 1, USB type-B (Upstream) x 1, USB 3.0 (Downstream) x 2, DVI-DL
Stand: VESA wall mount provision 100×100 (mm), Pivot, Tilt, Swivel, Height Adjustment, Headphone Jack
Optional shading hood: SH240 to reduce screen glare, ensuring superb color accuracy required for Professional work
Monitor, 1.8m Power Cable, DVI-DL Cable, mDP to DP Cable, USB3.0 Cable, QSG, CD,warranty card, calibration report
Country of Origin
China
Imported By
BenQ India Pvt Ltd Building No 9B,3rd Floor, DLF Cyber City, DLF Phase-III,Gurgaon-122002,Haryana
Item Weight
6 kg 700 g
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Aditya369 –
I’m always reluctant to purchase the first production run of a new product, but I’ve been using SW240 for a couple of weeks — enough time to report that it is a first class monitor with accurate and repeatable results. No dead/stuck pixels; uniform brightness and sharpness. Each monitor is factory-measured for gray-scale and color deviation from standard RGB profiles. In my cse the deviation was imperceptible (delta-E 1). This was borne out by custom calibration/verification using (provided) calibration software that writes (flashes) results into the monitors LUT for storage. Note that used must provide their own colorimeter-puck for custom calibration. On the down side, the documentation could be better; and Technical Support staff could be a bit more available, and more knowledgeable. While the monitors OSD menus are quite comprehensive (more than a dozen color profiles), they somewhat cumbersome. On balance, a very good wide-gamut monitor with built-in LUTs, at a very good price. have used Eizo monitors for critical color work for making prints for a long time. I needed a second monitor for live streaming so the pricy Eizo was overkill. I read reviews that if you get a good one, BenQ is great. So I rolled the dice, knowing that if I got a lemon I could send it back and try again. No lemon here. Out of the box it matched my Macbook pro screen perfectly. The only thing that it lacks, compared to Eizo is the ability to self adjust after calibration. I also love the very thin bezel, since space in my streaming setup is limited (which is why I got the 24 model) The only negative was the lack of informative instructions. Fortunately, on YouTube there was a video explaining that I needed to buy a different cable than the ones included in the box. It was a hassle but not enough to deduct a star.
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★★★★★
Manuel –
Bon modèle qui fait le boulot comme un chef avec sa casquette ! Accompagné de la sonde qui va bien (achetée par ailleurs) pour l’étalonnage… C’est parti : retouche et tirages photos – photoshop et Luminar Neo – , édition de livrets et catalogue riches en visuel – inDesign -, affiches – Illustrator -, et un peu de motion design – After Effects -, avec l’étalonnage du clip qui va bien. Bien dans mes couleurs. Un rapport qualité prix parfait pour la production courante.
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★★★★★
Christopher Sameer Kujur –
I purchased the BenQ SW240, 24.1 Inch (61.4 cm) Inch Color Accuracy Photography LCD Monitor, Professional Display in March 2022, and I am extremely pleased with my purchase. The monitor’s exceptional color accuracy is its standout feature, and the 24.1-inch screen size is perfect for editing photos.
One of the things that impressed me the most about this monitor is its brightness. The display is incredibly bright, making it easy to see even the smallest details in my images. This feature has been especially helpful when working on photos in bright environments.
The monitor’s ergonomic design is another big plus. It’s easy to adjust the height and angle of the monitor, ensuring that I can work on my photos comfortably for extended periods.
The BenQ SW240 is also excellent value for money. Compared to other professional-grade monitors on the market, this one is competitively priced while still delivering exceptional quality.
Overall, I highly recommend the BenQ SW240, 24.1 Inch (61.4 cm) Inch Color Accuracy Photography LCD Monitor, Professional Display to any photographer looking for a top-quality monitor that offers brightness, color accuracy, and ergonomic design at an affordable price.
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R1987 –
A 2000 euros, cet écran a le bon goût de venir avec un rapport d’étalonnage usine, le temps d’investir dans une sonde. J’étais donc en toute confiance.
La sonde en question je l’ai commandée un mois plus tard, et là c’est la catastrophe, les milliers d’images traitées depuis que j’ai branché le benq ressortent comme délavées (mon téléphone et mon ipad avaient tenté de me prévenir que quelque chose clochait, mais j’étais en confiance et pensait que le problème venait plutôt d’eux et que le rendu ecran serait bien la ref pour mes tirages). En gros tout est à refaire ! Bref, n’attendez pas un jour sans acquérir une sonde si vous commandez cet écran qui en dehors de ça est magnifique et bien doté en casquettes et contrôles.
Note au passage, les couleurs semblaient vraiment correctes, mais qui a eu l’idée de livrer l’appareil avec la luminosité à 100% ? Ca peut être une manip involontaire ou oubliée de de ma part mais je ne pense pas … Selon ma sonde spyderX, dans mon éclairage moyen, il fallait rester sur 70%.
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Esta opinión es sobre el Benq SW240, líbreme la tentación de querer ir más allá. Sea probablemente por los oscuros entresijos del negocio, en el mundo de la fotografía se tiende a exprimir al consumidor de una manera que no tiene igual. Hasta por la cámara más escacharrada se pide una montaña de euros, incluso por monitores en franca decadencia se exige abrir la cartera de par en par. Trate usted, trasnochado amante de la imagen, de buscar libre competencia en este hábitat y no encontrará más que lemas del tipo “precio recomendado por el fabricante”, que no es otra cosa más que el pague y calle. Con este panorama tan abusivo, los de cámara en ristre rogábamos con cada atardecer y tras cada hora dorada que algún fabricante nos ofreciera un monitor de clase triple B: bueno, bonito y barato. Ya lo había intentado Benq anteriormente con otros productos llamativos, pero pecaban sus paneles de inconstantes. Después de leer con abundancia ese notable género literario de nuestros días, el de las reviews, tras empaparme de ese tipo tan apreciado en nuestros tiempos, el experto, y sumado todo lo anterior a mi experiencia personal, puedo decir, alabada sea la tecnología, que sí, que este panel tiene la uniformidad necesaria, el color y el contraste requerido, junto a un precio dulcísimo, como para que nuestras fotos sean admiradas con sus virtudes y defectos.
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Dipankar Das –
I needed a monitor for editing my RAW Photos, so needed an accurate monitor for color correction and editing. After so much research I found out this monitor. Very affordable for photo editing needs. I did some comparison with apple Macbook air 2021 which is A P3 display. Where both Benq SW240 and apple Macbook is set to Display P3. I connected my monitor through a Display port cable, signal is 10Bit.
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Sad –
So far, so good. Hard to fault it. For the price there is nothing better out there which can be used as a reference monitor for either grading or photo editing. The fact that different calibrations can be switched on the fly it is an absolute God send. Calibration is obviously a must and whilst the process is a little tedious and not very straightforward, once it is done it will not need repeating for sometime. How long it will depend on how much you use the monitor. I use 3 stored Calibration settings: photo editing, video grading, photo printing. Great monitor overall.
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Placeholder –
This review is for the SW2700PT, but the comments are relevant to other models of hardware calibrated monitors.
I’ve had this monitor for almost two years, so have good experience of it. I use it in a multi monitor system, almost entirely for photo editing with Photoshop.
I think the image quality is good for the price of this monitor. Purists will no doubt complain of poor panel uniformity. If you’re serious about your work, you might be able to justify an Eizo but, if I’m honest, it’s more than adequate for my modest amateur photographic abilities. In conjunction with a nice GTI Soft-View viewer (which I picked up cheaply on eBay) it means I’ve got a better grip of my print process and no longer have the same nasty surprises when the prints arrive!
If you want to get the very best out of this monitor, you’ll need to feed it from a GPU with 10-bit component output (30-bit display) and a 10-bit connection (e.g. via Display Port). Even then, you’ll only be able to obtain 30-bit display output in Photoshop if you use a ‘Pro’ series graphics card (e.g. the NVIDEA Quadro series) with OpenGL support. I use the K1200 which is a fairly low power card and can support four 4K/5K(?) monitors. The GeForce series may have 10-bit output but they lack the OpenGL support required to render images in Photoshop (unless you can find a 3rd party driver). There are still limitations as to when 30-bit display is utilised in Photoshop, but that’s far beyond the scope of this review!
It’s a shame you need to purchase an expensive calibration tool if you want to calibrate the monitor yourself, which is what’s intended. However, even after two years, I find the factory AdobeRGB calibration of my unit to be very good. Therefore it’s a purchase you could probably delay. If you want to use the full native capability of the monitor then you will need to calibrate it yourself in order to obtain a custom profile for your monitor. For most of us though AdobeRGB is probably as much as we need.
If you want an accurate calibration, make sure you first let the monitor warm up, with an active image on the screen, for at least 30 minutes. As I recall, the white point gets cooler as it warms up and other parameters will change too. I use the i1 Display Pro and, once you understand it, the results of the hardware calibration using the Palette Master Element (PME) software seem excellent. To my eye the calibration appears to be slightly better than using the i1Profiler for ‘traditional’ soft calibration.
Initially I had problems getting my head around the internal calibration using the PME software. The documentation is a bit sparse. It had some issues (which may now be fixed) concerning its inability to calibrate with a relative blackpoint. Following discussions with BenQ, Amazon sent me a replacement, without any quibble, and they awaited my return of the original monitor. Unfortunately the replacement was very poorly calibrated and far too warm. It also suffered the same calibration issue. However, it had more recent firmware which allowed PME to offer calibration to a range of RGB primaries. So I returned the second monitor to Amazon and sent the original back to BenQ for a firmware update, which they did very promptly.
Some of my calibration issues stemmed from my misunderstanding of how this hardware calibrated monitor works. I’d assumed that the ICC profile produced at the end of the calibration should be the monitor profile installed for colour management, as you’d expect with a ‘conventional’ monitor. That’s not the case with the SW2700PT. Whatever colour space you calibrate to (the RGB Primaries), the ICC profile output file is always defined for native colour space. You should therefore only use it when calibrated to the native gamut. When you calibrate the monitor to other RGB Primaries the monitor first calibrates to the native space, then characterises the display, then produces the ICC profile, as with a ‘conventional’ monitor. It then uses internal 3D LUTs to emulate the colour space you require. It appears to do this very well. This means the ICC profile you should use for colour management is the standard profile for that colour space. e.g. if you calibrate to Adobe RGB primaries, use the Adobe RGB (1998) profile. If you attempt to use the ICC file from the calibration, the image will look desaturated.
Of course, when you switch the monitor between one colour space and another you will need to change the ICC profile in your computer. It’s a pity there isn’t a small app provided to synchronise this for you. It would make the puck a lot more useful for quickly changing colour space. As it is, it’s a bit of a marketing gimmick.
Sadly there is a problem with sRGB calibration. With PME it’s not possible to select the correct sRGB tonal curve. sRGB should be calibrated to a modified 2.2 gamma curve. This is linear for about the first 4% followed by a gamma of about 2.4. The closest you can select is a gamma of 2.2, but this causes shadows to be darkened and incorrect contrast range. This might be acceptable in a budget monitor but not for a hardware calibrated monitor with ‘Pro’ ambitions. Given the internal LUTs I’d hope this is something easy to add to PME.
The factory sRGB mode on my monitor has also be setup with a simple gamma of 2.2. It appears this has been done because it’s the default on Windows /Mac OS. Strictly speaking I don’t think this is an ‘sRGB’ mode, not without the correct tone curve, but it doesn’t really matter what it’s called. If BenQ could support the sRGB tone curve for calibration we’d have all we needed.
After some problems on my side and BenQ’s I’m now very impressed with this monitor. If I were buying now I might prefer a larger, 4k/5k display. At zoom factors below 66.7% Photoshop performs layer processing at 8-bit level, which can cause noticeable banding. This can be a horrible distraction. With more pixels on the display I could view at higher zoom factors. But that’s a Photoshop issue, not the fault of the monitor.
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★★★★★
gibin prince –
I got the BenQ SW240 after my previous Moserbaer (worked for about 6 years) started failing. I wanted a taller display than 16:9 to have ease of scrolling and to get more image in the vertical space. After a lot of internet research, I settled on this 16:10 full HD (1920×1200) monitor. I have been using it for 2 weeks. Text clarity is really good. I am also enjoying having that 11% extra vertical space that makes writing, scrolling and video editing so much easier than the constricting 16:9 aspect ratio of my previous monitor. I’m glad that a handful of companies like Benq, Dell, Nec and Eizo still produce these monitors. Watching movies, especially ones in the classic 4:3 or 5:3 (1.66:1) aspect ratio feels great on this monitor because of its extra screen height. 16:9 and smaller ratios also look good, as you can see from the screenshots I provided – Nayak (1966), Rear Window (1954) and Interstellar (2014). The first one is in a 1.37:1 ratio, the second in 1.66:1 (roughly), the third and fourth in 1.78:1 and 2.39:1, respectively. The only minus I found was that this monitor does not have an in-built speaker. But seeing as this is meant for photographers, that’s not a problem. Hooking up a soundbar through HDMI solves the issue. I hope more 16:10 displays are manufactured in future. Hopefully, some 4K ones too (3840×2400), at 30 inches or above where the benefits of 4K start to become apparent. At 24 inches, though, Full HD is absolutely fine. Playing standard 4K videos is no problem if one has a proper graphics card and processor that supports the UHD resolution.
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Dipankar Das –
Idk why but the monitor had this weird yellow tint to everything it was pretty noticeable for blacks and the reason i bought this monitor was because i thought i can see color’s accurately, but i need to get it calibrated, plugged in using laptop as well as rtx 3060 ti to see if it was a gpu thing, but nopz, also this is a 10 bit panel but 8+frc not a true 10 bit
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★★★★★
R1987 –
Brilliant Pro Monitor, purchased online after lots of research on the best Pro monitor. 2k vs 4k.
few stuck pixels only on black screen, which does not bother me at all. tried everything to reset those stuck pixels but no success. No other pixel problems . very lucky on the monitor lottery, so not sending back.
Close to apple laptop screen in colours but apple screens are far superior. Matte finish screen is best I’ve ever seen. Brightness is good enough. Design is very modern and sleek. Works amazingly well connected with a M1 Mac air and charges as well with just one cable . Gets overly warm when long use. The Hot key Puck is so useful for a pro monitor. The monitor is very light , Stand is very heavy. Takes a few seconds to wake from sleep.
Aditya369 –
I’m always reluctant to purchase the first production run of a new product, but I’ve been using SW240 for a couple of weeks — enough time to report that it is a first class monitor with accurate and repeatable results. No dead/stuck pixels; uniform brightness and sharpness. Each monitor is factory-measured for gray-scale and color deviation from standard RGB profiles. In my cse the deviation was imperceptible (delta-E 1). This was borne out by custom calibration/verification using (provided) calibration software that writes (flashes) results into the monitors LUT for storage. Note that used must provide their own colorimeter-puck for custom calibration. On the down side, the documentation could be better; and Technical Support staff could be a bit more available, and more knowledgeable. While the monitors OSD menus are quite comprehensive (more than a dozen color profiles), they somewhat cumbersome. On balance, a very good wide-gamut monitor with built-in LUTs, at a very good price. have used Eizo monitors for critical color work for making prints for a long time. I needed a second monitor for live streaming so the pricy Eizo was overkill. I read reviews that if you get a good one, BenQ is great. So I rolled the dice, knowing that if I got a lemon I could send it back and try again. No lemon here. Out of the box it matched my Macbook pro screen perfectly. The only thing that it lacks, compared to Eizo is the ability to self adjust after calibration. I also love the very thin bezel, since space in my streaming setup is limited (which is why I got the 24 model) The only negative was the lack of informative instructions. Fortunately, on YouTube there was a video explaining that I needed to buy a different cable than the ones included in the box. It was a hassle but not enough to deduct a star.
Manuel –
Bon modèle qui fait le boulot comme un chef avec sa casquette ! Accompagné de la sonde qui va bien (achetée par ailleurs) pour l’étalonnage… C’est parti : retouche et tirages photos – photoshop et Luminar Neo – , édition de livrets et catalogue riches en visuel – inDesign -, affiches – Illustrator -, et un peu de motion design – After Effects -, avec l’étalonnage du clip qui va bien.
Bien dans mes couleurs. Un rapport qualité prix parfait pour la production courante.
Christopher Sameer Kujur –
I purchased the BenQ SW240, 24.1 Inch (61.4 cm) Inch Color Accuracy Photography LCD Monitor, Professional Display in March 2022, and I am extremely pleased with my purchase. The monitor’s exceptional color accuracy is its standout feature, and the 24.1-inch screen size is perfect for editing photos.
One of the things that impressed me the most about this monitor is its brightness. The display is incredibly bright, making it easy to see even the smallest details in my images. This feature has been especially helpful when working on photos in bright environments.
The monitor’s ergonomic design is another big plus. It’s easy to adjust the height and angle of the monitor, ensuring that I can work on my photos comfortably for extended periods.
The BenQ SW240 is also excellent value for money. Compared to other professional-grade monitors on the market, this one is competitively priced while still delivering exceptional quality.
Overall, I highly recommend the BenQ SW240, 24.1 Inch (61.4 cm) Inch Color Accuracy Photography LCD Monitor, Professional Display to any photographer looking for a top-quality monitor that offers brightness, color accuracy, and ergonomic design at an affordable price.
R1987 –
A 2000 euros, cet écran a le bon goût de venir avec un rapport d’étalonnage usine, le temps d’investir dans une sonde. J’étais donc en toute confiance.
La sonde en question je l’ai commandée un mois plus tard, et là c’est la catastrophe, les milliers d’images traitées depuis que j’ai branché le benq ressortent comme délavées (mon téléphone et mon ipad avaient tenté de me prévenir que quelque chose clochait, mais j’étais en confiance et pensait que le problème venait plutôt d’eux et que le rendu ecran serait bien la ref pour mes tirages). En gros tout est à refaire ! Bref, n’attendez pas un jour sans acquérir une sonde si vous commandez cet écran qui en dehors de ça est magnifique et bien doté en casquettes et contrôles.
Note au passage, les couleurs semblaient vraiment correctes, mais qui a eu l’idée de livrer l’appareil avec la luminosité à 100% ? Ca peut être une manip involontaire ou oubliée de de ma part mais je ne pense pas … Selon ma sonde spyderX, dans mon éclairage moyen, il fallait rester sur 70%.
Placeholder –
Esta opinión es sobre el Benq SW240, líbreme la tentación de querer ir más allá.
Sea probablemente por los oscuros entresijos del negocio, en el mundo de la fotografía se tiende a exprimir al consumidor de una manera que no tiene igual. Hasta por la cámara más escacharrada se pide una montaña de euros, incluso por monitores en franca decadencia se exige abrir la cartera de par en par. Trate usted, trasnochado amante de la imagen, de buscar libre competencia en este hábitat y no encontrará más que lemas del tipo “precio recomendado por el fabricante”, que no es otra cosa más que el pague y calle.
Con este panorama tan abusivo, los de cámara en ristre rogábamos con cada atardecer y tras cada hora dorada que algún fabricante nos ofreciera un monitor de clase triple B: bueno, bonito y barato. Ya lo había intentado Benq anteriormente con otros productos llamativos, pero pecaban sus paneles de inconstantes. Después de leer con abundancia ese notable género literario de nuestros días, el de las reviews, tras empaparme de ese tipo tan apreciado en nuestros tiempos, el experto, y sumado todo lo anterior a mi experiencia personal, puedo decir, alabada sea la tecnología, que sí, que este panel tiene la uniformidad necesaria, el color y el contraste requerido, junto a un precio dulcísimo, como para que nuestras fotos sean admiradas con sus virtudes y defectos.
Dipankar Das –
I needed a monitor for editing my RAW Photos, so needed an accurate monitor for color correction and editing. After so much research I found out this monitor. Very affordable for photo editing needs. I did some comparison with apple Macbook air 2021 which is A P3 display. Where both Benq SW240 and apple Macbook is set to Display P3. I connected my monitor through a Display port cable, signal is 10Bit.
Sad –
So far, so good.
Hard to fault it. For the price there is nothing better out there which can be used as a reference monitor for either grading or photo editing.
The fact that different calibrations can be switched on the fly it is an absolute God send.
Calibration is obviously a must and whilst the process is a little tedious and not very straightforward, once it is done it will not need repeating for sometime. How long it will depend on how much you use the monitor.
I use 3 stored Calibration settings: photo editing, video grading, photo printing.
Great monitor overall.
Placeholder –
This review is for the SW2700PT, but the comments are relevant to other models of hardware calibrated monitors.
I’ve had this monitor for almost two years, so have good experience of it. I use it in a multi monitor system, almost entirely for photo editing with Photoshop.
I think the image quality is good for the price of this monitor. Purists will no doubt complain of poor panel uniformity. If you’re serious about your work, you might be able to justify an Eizo but, if I’m honest, it’s more than adequate for my modest amateur photographic abilities. In conjunction with a nice GTI Soft-View viewer (which I picked up cheaply on eBay) it means I’ve got a better grip of my print process and no longer have the same nasty surprises when the prints arrive!
If you want to get the very best out of this monitor, you’ll need to feed it from a GPU with 10-bit component output (30-bit display) and a 10-bit connection (e.g. via Display Port). Even then, you’ll only be able to obtain 30-bit display output in Photoshop if you use a ‘Pro’ series graphics card (e.g. the NVIDEA Quadro series) with OpenGL support. I use the K1200 which is a fairly low power card and can support four 4K/5K(?) monitors. The GeForce series may have 10-bit output but they lack the OpenGL support required to render images in Photoshop (unless you can find a 3rd party driver). There are still limitations as to when 30-bit display is utilised in Photoshop, but that’s far beyond the scope of this review!
It’s a shame you need to purchase an expensive calibration tool if you want to calibrate the monitor yourself, which is what’s intended. However, even after two years, I find the factory AdobeRGB calibration of my unit to be very good. Therefore it’s a purchase you could probably delay. If you want to use the full native capability of the monitor then you will need to calibrate it yourself in order to obtain a custom profile for your monitor. For most of us though AdobeRGB is probably as much as we need.
If you want an accurate calibration, make sure you first let the monitor warm up, with an active image on the screen, for at least 30 minutes. As I recall, the white point gets cooler as it warms up and other parameters will change too. I use the i1 Display Pro and, once you understand it, the results of the hardware calibration using the Palette Master Element (PME) software seem excellent. To my eye the calibration appears to be slightly better than using the i1Profiler for ‘traditional’ soft calibration.
Initially I had problems getting my head around the internal calibration using the PME software. The documentation is a bit sparse. It had some issues (which may now be fixed) concerning its inability to calibrate with a relative blackpoint. Following discussions with BenQ, Amazon sent me a replacement, without any quibble, and they awaited my return of the original monitor. Unfortunately the replacement was very poorly calibrated and far too warm. It also suffered the same calibration issue. However, it had more recent firmware which allowed PME to offer calibration to a range of RGB primaries. So I returned the second monitor to Amazon and sent the original back to BenQ for a firmware update, which they did very promptly.
Some of my calibration issues stemmed from my misunderstanding of how this hardware calibrated monitor works. I’d assumed that the ICC profile produced at the end of the calibration should be the monitor profile installed for colour management, as you’d expect with a ‘conventional’ monitor. That’s not the case with the SW2700PT. Whatever colour space you calibrate to (the RGB Primaries), the ICC profile output file is always defined for native colour space. You should therefore only use it when calibrated to the native gamut. When you calibrate the monitor to other RGB Primaries the monitor first calibrates to the native space, then characterises the display, then produces the ICC profile, as with a ‘conventional’ monitor. It then uses internal 3D LUTs to emulate the colour space you require. It appears to do this very well. This means the ICC profile you should use for colour management is the standard profile for that colour space. e.g. if you calibrate to Adobe RGB primaries, use the Adobe RGB (1998) profile. If you attempt to use the ICC file from the calibration, the image will look desaturated.
Of course, when you switch the monitor between one colour space and another you will need to change the ICC profile in your computer. It’s a pity there isn’t a small app provided to synchronise this for you. It would make the puck a lot more useful for quickly changing colour space. As it is, it’s a bit of a marketing gimmick.
Sadly there is a problem with sRGB calibration. With PME it’s not possible to select the correct sRGB tonal curve. sRGB should be calibrated to a modified 2.2 gamma curve. This is linear for about the first 4% followed by a gamma of about 2.4. The closest you can select is a gamma of 2.2, but this causes shadows to be darkened and incorrect contrast range. This might be acceptable in a budget monitor but not for a hardware calibrated monitor with ‘Pro’ ambitions. Given the internal LUTs I’d hope this is something easy to add to PME.
The factory sRGB mode on my monitor has also be setup with a simple gamma of 2.2. It appears this has been done because it’s the default on Windows /Mac OS. Strictly speaking I don’t think this is an ‘sRGB’ mode, not without the correct tone curve, but it doesn’t really matter what it’s called. If BenQ could support the sRGB tone curve for calibration we’d have all we needed.
After some problems on my side and BenQ’s I’m now very impressed with this monitor. If I were buying now I might prefer a larger, 4k/5k display. At zoom factors below 66.7% Photoshop performs layer processing at 8-bit level, which can cause noticeable banding. This can be a horrible distraction. With more pixels on the display I could view at higher zoom factors. But that’s a Photoshop issue, not the fault of the monitor.
gibin prince –
I got the BenQ SW240 after my previous Moserbaer (worked for about 6 years) started failing. I wanted a taller display than 16:9 to have ease of scrolling and to get more image in the vertical space. After a lot of internet research, I settled on this 16:10 full HD (1920×1200) monitor. I have been using it for 2 weeks. Text clarity is really good. I am also enjoying having that 11% extra vertical space that makes writing, scrolling and video editing so much easier than the constricting 16:9 aspect ratio of my previous monitor. I’m glad that a handful of companies like Benq, Dell, Nec and Eizo still produce these monitors. Watching movies, especially ones in the classic 4:3 or 5:3 (1.66:1) aspect ratio feels great on this monitor because of its extra screen height. 16:9 and smaller ratios also look good, as you can see from the screenshots I provided – Nayak (1966), Rear Window (1954) and Interstellar (2014). The first one is in a 1.37:1 ratio, the second in 1.66:1 (roughly), the third and fourth in 1.78:1 and 2.39:1, respectively.
The only minus I found was that this monitor does not have an in-built speaker. But seeing as this is meant for photographers, that’s not a problem. Hooking up a soundbar through HDMI solves the issue.
I hope more 16:10 displays are manufactured in future. Hopefully, some 4K ones too (3840×2400), at 30 inches or above where the benefits of 4K start to become apparent. At 24 inches, though, Full HD is absolutely fine. Playing standard 4K videos is no problem if one has a proper graphics card and processor that supports the UHD resolution.
Dipankar Das –
Idk why but the monitor had this weird yellow tint to everything it was pretty noticeable for blacks and the reason i bought this monitor was because i thought i can see color’s accurately, but i need to get it calibrated, plugged in using laptop as well as rtx 3060 ti to see if it was a gpu thing, but nopz, also this is a 10 bit panel but 8+frc not a true 10 bit
R1987 –
Brilliant Pro Monitor, purchased online after lots of research on the best Pro monitor. 2k vs 4k.
few stuck pixels only on black screen, which does not bother me at all. tried everything to reset those stuck pixels but no success. No other pixel problems . very lucky on the monitor lottery, so not sending back.
Close to apple laptop screen in colours but apple screens are far superior. Matte finish screen is best I’ve ever seen. Brightness is good enough. Design is very modern and sleek. Works amazingly well connected with a M1 Mac air and charges as well with just one cable . Gets overly warm when long use.
The Hot key Puck is so useful for a pro monitor.
The monitor is very light , Stand is very heavy. Takes a few seconds to wake from sleep.