How accurate is YOUR LCD display?

[Marvo]

My LCD display "seems" a little bright in that in a correctly exposed shot, none of the highlight detail is visible. I say "seems" a little bright, as if I take the brightness of the display down in the settings in order to get the highlight detail to show, then the image is definately too dark in the mid tones and the shadows just fill in to black. This is rendering the LCD almost useless as far as checking the exposure goes and to boot, the histogram doesn't effectivly show how the highlights are being caught as the histogram frame is the same colour as the histogram bars. Is the highlight pegged at 98% brightness or is there a spike at 100% (blown out highlights) or is that the frame of the histogram box??? I've just sold my Olympus E10 which had a far more accurate LCD and a far more readable (and therefore useful) Histogram display. I realise now how much I was able to rely on the old Olympus display. It feels like Fuji have got the contast all wrong on the dispaly and that the LCD needs a gamma control as well as brightness. After all, a telly with only a brightness control and no contrast control will give a pretty poor picture!
Sorry for the negative tone of the post, I just keep asking myself the same question over issues like this.. i.e. Have any of the Fuji developers ever actualy taken the camera out and taken a few pictures with it (or talked to a photographer) after they decided on how bright and contrasty to calibrate the LCD? Maybe I'm just hoping someone out there has got the magic fix:) .. anyone?....
In the meantime, I'll go and cheer myself up with a beer. Cheers!!!!!:D

Marvo.

[amazingthailand]

This seems to be a common complaint that I have heard many times, including reviews of the camera. Check out Thom's review at www.bythom.com.

It also apprears that there is a lot of variability in the LCD between cameras.

Declan

[PauHana]

Marco;

Yes, my screen is also light and contrasty. Doesn't bother me as I only check composition, and any "blinkers" (eyes closed). the odds of a two inch LCD dsplay being calibrated and color accurate are slim so I had no expectations when I bought the S2.:rolleyes:

[Tom Raffelt]

I totally agree with Marco. We have shot the s1 since it came out and the s1 lcd is matched with our computers' monitor and labs' printers. This has been wonderful for me in shooting my "polaroids" of each person. The comfort of knowing I have a WYSIWYG method on the s1 has been great. The s2 lcd however is not at all user friendly. It seems to be much brighter, much contrastier (is that a word???) and the colors are way different than the s1. For now at least I use the s2 for just out of studio location shoots and have stuck with the s1 for all of my studio shooting. "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

[carrickp]

In my experience the screen seems bright when viewed at any angle other than straight on. This can get pretty confusing. I generally check the histogram to make sure what's going on.

[lightwrangler]

I also have an E10 and must agree that it's LCD is much more accurate. The LCD on the S2 does confuse me with it's contrast and brightness (more a matter of doubt than anything else) but as has been said before I rely on the histograms, they always seem to be correct.