Color quality
The S2110W is a first, proving that it is possible for manufactures to sell monitors with satisfactory settings. Unlike its competition, with the S2110W you can skip the calibration process.
Here is the Eizo monitor without any adjustment compared to another monitor also equipped with an 8 ms S-PVA panel, the Fujitsu Siemens P19-2 :
Colors (set to 6500 K initially) are perfectly accurate. Here is a reminder how to read these graphs: DeltaE is a measure between the color requested and the one really displayed on the monitor. The result obtained is also counter-balanced for human eye color sensitivity.
With Delta E > 3 the desired color is noticeably different from the one on the screen.
With 1 < Delta E < 2 colors are accurate. With Delta E < 1, the result is perfect. It’s impressive and by far the best result obtained up until now. Eizo’s excellent reputation for color quality is perfectly justified. One point, however, is a bit surprising, the brightness level chosen by Eizo. The S2110W white level is close to 500 candelas (496), which is REALLY bright. We feel this is too bright for an extended period of use.
Initially, the monitor setting is USER. It features five other pre-recorded configurations, Movie, Picture, Custom (User), sRGB and Text. Only two are of interest to us, USER (colors are more accurate than other modes) and Text (the color temperature falls to 5000K and brightness to 91 cd/m²). The Text brightness level might seem quite low compared to the capacity of LCD monitors, but it’s what is best for your eyes. It is relaxing and still accurate. At first, the monitor may seem quite dark, but you will soon get used to it and changing to another mode may later be difficult. The downside to the comfort to your eyes is that color accuracy is slightly reduced. Calibrating this monitor helped to correct a couple of problems.
Once again the result for 5000K is very impressive! This time white is at 93 cd/m², and
black at 0.2 cd/m²! In spite of the graph, which shows that the black isn’t really that deep, the color produced is very dark, much darker than the best IPS and S-IPS panels. In practice, when DeltaE > 3 the result isn’t really that bothersome. There is a difference between the black of the monitor switched off and the black displayed, but it is already excellent. This explains why Eizo chose a different type of panel this time.
Here is calibration at 6500K with USER mode:
Colors are even more accurate than before (see graph above). You will notice that we added the monitor’s gammut. We remind you that this is the colorimetric range compared to the sRGB range (the one usually used for digital cameras). This doesn’t correspond to accuracy, but to the range of reproducible colors. For accuracy refer to the Delta E figure (the graph on the right).
The spectrum is a little bit disappointing and identical to “standard monitors”. It isn’t the best even if Eizo is proud to work with 14 bit colors and the fact that they worked on backlighting. If we look at the monitor’s specifications in detail, we see that it really only uses 1.06 billion colors (10 bits then) and only simultaneously displays at best 16 million (8 bits). The “trick” doesn’t seem to be that useful. In the end, we only see an 8 bit monitor. This is far from what was measured with the
Nec Lumileds.
