[Sylvain]

However, I noticed a rather conspicuous, to me anyway, colour shift from the left to the right, from light cyan to light magenta. I first thought it was me, and tried to calibrate it away, but then I found that there are specimens out there that do show a colour shift similar to this, and returned the thing.

you mean from left to right of the gamut spectrum or the actual screen? Mine and my friend's luckily seem even. We never looked back! On top of that, the screen is remarkably well equipped and pleasant to use.

My question now is, when you searched for a good 24-inch or larger monitor, which ones did get onto your shortlist?

Hmm it was some time ago so I couldn't be very accurate I'm afraid ! I know for sure I only looked at 24" panels. I think I must have considered a Dell or two and a few Eizo but the HP just came out of nowhere and was about exactly for what I wanted. My budget was to stay between 500-1000€ so I felt lucky with the 600€ paid for the HP.

In any event, I wouldn't base any buying decision on a year old shortlist <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />. Not with the shift to LED backlit panels we have witnessed last year, supposedly improving contrast & gamut. I think Eizo or NEC (I'm looking for it) released a rather interesting specimen a month ago at an affordable price.

I use a Spyder3Pro too. You may want to look at the software from Integrated Color Corp., Color Eyes Display Pro, for calibration: [url="http://www.integrated-color.com/"]http://www.integrated-color.com/[/url].

I will give it a try ! thanks !



PS.: is there anyway to reply inline of someone's post without having to add quoting tags everywhere?