What's your pixel pitch?

[Borad]

I have a 2 year old Dell E2213 monitor with a .282mm pixel pitch. I assume most people here have a smaller pixel pitch? I think I focused on the resolution when buying it because for some reason higher resolution (more pixels) seems to coincide with more pixels per inch but for pictures to look the same from one monitor to the next, I guess pixel pitch is a more important factor than resolution.

 

[tirediron]

Underhand.

 

[sscarmack]

I have no idea, but I can pee into the toilet from 7 feet

















and then get it everywhere! hahahhaa

 

[TheLost]

My 27" Apple monitor has a .233 dot pitch.

Color reproduction is more important than anything (IMHO)

 

[CameraClicker]

I purchased a monitor recently. I don't have a clue what the dot pitch was. Since I'm not playing games with it, I wasn't that interested in refresh rate, either. I haven't been in an Apple store in ages, last time I was there they showed me a 27 inch monitor with a ridiculous price tag, but it had a good looking picture.

TheLost is right, accurate colour is more important.

 

[runnah]

7

 

[Borad]

I spent about 30 minutes tracking down the identity of weenie girl from your last avatar. I'm not as interested in proud man though.

 

[Scatterbrained]

I have a 2 year old Dell E2213 monitor with a .282mm pixel pitch. I assume most people here have a smaller pixel pitch? I think I focused on the resolution when buying it because for some reason higher resolution (more pixels) seems to coincide with more pixels per inch but for pictures to look the same from one monitor to the next, I guess pixel pitch is a more important factor than resolution.

For images to look the same from one monitor to the next appropriate calibration is what matters, not pixel pitch.

 

[KmH]

There are many other display considerations beyond pixel pitch.

It looks like your Dell E2213 is a TN (Twisted Nematic) display type rather than the desirable for looking at or editing photos IPS (In-Plane Switching) display type.
Where it says the E2213 can display 16.7 million colors means it can only display 8-bit color (256 values of red x 256 values of green x 256 values of blue) and presumably can only display 83% of the sRGB color space gamut of colors though they don't actually name the color space.

Adobe's minimum system requirements for display color is 16-bits.

Whatever the pixel pitch the display resolution can be changed. No doubt the display's native resolution is usually the best option to use.

As mentioned a display has to be routinely re-calibrated to adjust for display aging, if the ambient light falling on the display has changed the display again needs to be re-calibrated. Some of the hardware used to calibrate a display continually senses the ambient light falling on the display and adjusts the display calibration on the fly.