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This page contains notes I made while reviewing the LaCie 324 display.

April, 2008 Patrick Herold CHROMiX

LaCie 324 display analysis

My settings for these tests was 120 cd/m2, Gamma 2.2, 6200 white point.

Color gamut

This is probably the biggest selling point. This display has quite a noticeable saturation increase over regular displays. The 324 color gamut approaches that of AdobeRGB with most colors. A notable exception is blues. Blues do not get quite as saturated as the typical LCD display. The gamut volume will vary depending on the software and instrument used for measurements.

Gamut volume

• 1,231,000 ( i1D2 & Blue Eye Pro)
• 1,135,000 - DTP-94 & CEDPro.)

Evenness

Visually this display looks uniform. With a 50% gray background in place, the edges look slightly warmer because of angle of view.

Brightness

I did not test the minimum or maximum brightness of this display. It is capable of getting very bright. The internal graphics processing allowed it to get as dim as 120 without significant problems, although the LUT curves show a very sharp decrease in the curves in order to achieve this.

Angle of view

Color is warm toward center of vision, cooler to the outside edges. Perhaps more so on the up & down off axis than the left-to-right axis.

Internal LUTs?

Yes. 10-bit Internal LUT. * by LaCie's Blue Eye Pro software, and can be utilized by CEDP.

Calibration software - Blue Eye Pro

It does not appear that the Blue Eye Pro software comes with the monitor, however I was able to download the latest version from the LaCie website and use it with the i1D2 and the Optix.

• This software is laid out very simply. It's easy to use. There's not a lot of complicated choices to make, and yet it seems to provide all the necessary choices: (Version 2 or version 4; LUT or matrix; custom white points and black points available.
• It makes adjustments to the internal video card, and leaves the computer's graphics card mostly flat.

Concerning DDC connection with CEDP, this appears to work. However, something is a little funky because CEDP writes on both LUTS: the monitor's and the computer's - and makes some dramatic changes on both. Still, the resulting profile looks good to the eye.

Rotation

• There is no vertical/horizontal rotation.
• This display raises and lowers about a foot, tilts from upright to laid back, and pivots about 350 degrees from left to right. (The bases rotates around to make it easy to show it to someone else.)

Highlights / Shadows

I am able to distinguish shadows of 5 L value difference, and it could probably have gone lower, although I did not test it.

Banding / grayscale

I can see a very small amount of banding (luminance) or posterization in the gray background behind the pitchers in the Frontier test image.

OTHER:

• Back panel, left to right, as looking from the back:

(2) HDMI ports | DVI-D | Audio In digital | D-Sub | Audio In (Analog) | Line Out | USB In.

• Looking from the front:

3 USB outs on the Left edge of display.

Pat Herold herold@chromix.com 206.985-6837 ext #6