Monitor help

[pokopelo]

Hello there... I've been a bit off from photography, I had really enjoyed this hobby in the past but over the last couple of years really have just taken photos and left them there unorganized...
I need to organize my albums, but doing it only on my mac pro (13") will be a hard task since I need to check which ones are in my backup, which folders I already copied to the external drive, etc etc ... and cannot do it only in a small laptop monitor... also some light post processing, just the basic saturation, and minor corrections I use (or used to use I should rather say) Luminar 4

I am planning on getting a monitor, I'm actually looking at doing so through eBay so save some $$, I've seen monitors that used to sell in the $100 before the pandemic (chip shortage) are now 50-70% more nowadays, to be quite franc I do not want spend more than ~100-130, so I'm looking at options in eBay..

I just want a 24" half-decent to decent monitor, I'm looking at a couple of different ones of these models

HP 24EC
HP 24MH
HP V21i

there are also a couple of Dell and ACER options ... but I use HP at work and seems OK for what I'm looking for.

the question here is, would something like this do a decent job in terms of color accuracy? again, I'm not looking for perfection, I will not allocate that kind of budget, but just wanted a couple of you sharing your thoughts about that....

thanks for any help you guys can provide.

 

[weepete]

Having looked into it recently myself, I'd suggest the specs to look for would be an IPS screen with 100% (or near 100%) sRGB coverage. It would be good to get something with a delta E of < 2 (meaning that the factory calibration should be fairly good out of the box), but not all reviews will test that.

For colour accuracy regular calibration is a must, and needs to be done using coloromiter (like those produced by Datacolor or Calbrite/X-Rite). Without that it's going to be a stab in the dark