Hello,
We've got a couple of fancy digital cameras to upgrade our patch clamp rigs. Although there are more pixels, while high contrast grayscale pictures look very nice and clean, lower contrast preparations (like live brain slices) are much more difficult to deal with. My concern is that our conventional computer monitors are a bottleneck as they are not fully suitable for this. Is it worth trying an expensive monochrome medical monitor? Could anyone recommend any current model of computer monitor or a panel type (i.e. IPS/MVA/TN etc)? Although our camera has been specifically designed for electrophysiology, there are no stated requirements to monitors. Also, there is no way to connect the camera to the monitor directly bypassing a computer box.
I would very appreciate any comments or suggestions.
I personally think that LCD screens aren't great for patch clamping. Old CRT style ones show contrast better, but in the future, OLED screens that can show true blacks will probably be the perfect choice once they become affordable. The only one I can find is the ProArt PQ22UC, but hopefully prices will come down.
Do you need a better screen for specific purposes ? Looks to me very overpowered to buy a fancy monitor just for patch-clamp.
Thanks for your replies. I'm now testing a semi-professional monitor Benq SW240 with an IPS panel, and I'm happy with it so far. There is a preset DICOM mode to display medical 10-bit grayscale pictures. I connected it to a 30-bit rgb output of my videoboard (24 bits is not enough). I found that this is the best mode fore live slices (Eiso and NEC offer similar models with IPS panels as well). Its resolution (1920x1200) fits well to the native resolution of my camera (1360 x 1024). I agree with Stefan that OLED panel should work better as its contrast ratio is much higher. On the other hand, it needs to be DICOM compatible to properly display grayscale pictures.
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