BenQ SW2700PT vs Dell UltraSharp UP2716D review: AdobeRGB battle

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Even though there is a wide variety of monitors available we do not see them often: monitors with a larger-than-average standard colour display. Not that weird, because these are primarily used by (semi-)professional photographers. Nevertheless the advanced amateur photographer can benefit from using such a monitor. Therefore it is probably for the best that the amount of affordable AdobeRGB-monitors with WQHD-resolution available on the market is increasing. Most recently with the Dell UltraSharp UP2716D and the BenQ SW2700PT; the subjects of this test.

For most users a monitors that can show the sRGB colour space is more than enough. Almost all of the conventional software, including operating systems, are optimized for this. Browsers for example are configured in sRGB. Photographers that use more advanced cameras can find it useful to use a larger colour space, otherwise known as wide gamut. More expensive models automatically use AdobeRGB. Especially when the end result is going to be printed, it would be a shame to have to ?go back? to a smaller colour space; hereby practically throwing your ?colourinformation? away. However, if you want to work using the AdobeRGB colour space you need a proper monitor and you should adjust your workflow to do so.
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