Performance

Straight out of the box, the VP2468 offers an impressive display. It has a matte anti-glare coating that makes looking at the screen for long periods of time comfortable and easy.

It is full HD, which offers a good high resolution for viewing your photos and videos, and is great for those who are checking close details on photographs and the like.

The refresh rate of 60Hz is lower than some more expensive models on the market, but it should be more than enough for most situations, especially for photographers.

You can see that the monitor has been designed for photographers, and the colour gamut is impressively wide. Images really pop on the screen with beautiful colours and give a real sense of ‘life’ to your work. You can also rest assured that because of the extensive different calibration options, should you want to print your images then what you see on screen is what you will get in a print out.

Conclusion

The ViewSonic VP2468 is not the cheapest monitor currently available on the market, however, cheaper monitors tend to be designed for all-round usage for display work or for people who don’t need something to be particularly well calibrated - such as those working on written documents and so on.

When you compare this monitor to other monitors of its type on the market, the £260 asking price seems positively good value for money, and you’ll be able to find professional level monitors for photographers, videographers and designers for at least twice the price on the market.

The biggest drawback of this monitor in today’s climate is that it doesn’t offer 4K resolution. As more and more cameras start to offer 4K video recording as standard, it could be that this monitor can’t keep up with your camera kit before long. If you have any intentions to work with 4K video either now or in the future, you might want to consider an alternative.

Being able to tilt, swivel and rotate the screen is fantastic not only for ergonomics, but also to allow you to better see portrait format images - something which photographers will of course particularly appreciate. It also looks great - with the ‘frameless’ design making it look attractive, modern and clean.

Ratings (out of 5)
Design	5
Features	4.5
Ease-of-use	4.5
Value for money	4

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