BenQ SW271 27 Inch 4K HDR Professional IPS Computer Monitor with 10-Bit with 14-Bit 3D LUT, Hardware Calibration Aqcolor for Accurate Reproduction and Detachable Shading Hood

This monitor is amazing! First, off the packaging, the monitor came in was fantastic. It was packaged in two boxes, not including the main monitor box. It was a bit to unpack but well worth it! It looked totally secured! Set up was super easy! All the cables you'll ever need were included! Only with the Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) cable was a little longer! Right out of the box the image and color looked amazing! I have this hooked up to a 2018 Mac Mini and couldn't ask for a better monitor to pair with this machine. The screen is super uniform as far as color or light bleed is concerned. Hardly any light bleed that I could see! It does have that traditional IPS glow but I am used to seeing that nowadays.I used a Spyder 5 to color calibrate it even more. The image was a little blue for my liking. After the calibration and some fine tweaking, I got it to where I want it to be! There are a ton of videos online showing you exactly how to calibrate it! Super easy! Just be sure to plug in the USB cable as well as the display cable for the monitor! Having both is required!As far as other functions the monitor has! I am impressed with the little hot puck it comes with! Making it super easy to change color profiles! I have one set for print review and one set for SRGB color space!I am still in shock with the quality of the picture on this monitor. You really do get what you pay for! Would buy this monitor over and over again! 5 Stars is well worth it!

I use this monitor primarily for photo editing. I hesitated buying such an expensive monitor, but could not find anything else with all the features I wanted. After using it for a couple of months, it is by far the best monitor I have used due to its solid (and heavy) construction, excellent brightness, wide color gamut, and 4K resolution. The Palette Master Element software provided works well with my Spyder 5 Pro colorimeter and is easier to use than other calibration software I have used.

This monitor is fantastic for Lightroom, Photoshop, etc use. The colors and detail are what I needed. I'm no longer worried about rendering very large prints. The setup and calibration are straight forward -- aside from the brightness all calibrations were on the mark from the factory. If you are concerned about monitor calibration and changing ambient light something like x-rite i1 and the included hoods are for you.I wish I'd got this monitor as soon as I got serious about photo editing.

Knowing that I was going to upgrade my home computer, I began to research monitors. It was clear that 2018 was going to be the year to get a really good monitor. After months of looking at review after review I settled on the BenQ SW271. I have the monitor hooked up to a Nvidia Geforce 1080 Ti card. Going in my expectations were very high. This monitor has exceeded all of those expectations. There are many reviews of this monitor on YouTube and I would suggest anyone looking at monitors to give those a look. I just finished watching a 4k video concert on YouTube and was blown away with the crystal clear clarity of the picture. That was the final trigger to write a review.

I am an advanced hobbyist photographer and bought this monitor to implement an AdobeRBG 10bit workflow for art-grade photo prints on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000.This is a solidly built piece of equipment, the stand is very heavy and well constructed. I love the handle built into the stand. Packing was very good: I would not be concerned about damage in shipment. The panel itself is the usual plastic, but it's high quality in appearance and feel. The performance of the panel overall, is excellent. I'm getting verified 10bit workflow in Photoshop through an Nvidia Quadro P2000. I love the puck! Now can't live without it. Switching color spaces with the push of a button near the keyboard is a really nice innovation. The puck itself is a pretty high quality build. The buttons feel good and the display responds well. Monitor menus are pretty nice compared to the Dells I've been using for two decades. This panel blow away my Dell u2718q 27" 4k monitor. They are setup side by side and the dell looks like dog vomit compared to the BENQ, but then, they are not in the same class are they?This is where the good ends and the not-so-good, to just dumb, begins:- This panel has a single stuck blue pixel. This is a thousand dollar monitor targeting color perfectionists, so it's going back to amazon for a swap.- There is some noticeable light bleed on the edges. It's not bad, but it's not great.- The monitor ships with a DVI-to-mini-DVI cable. However, all the high end Nvidia Quadro cards have full sized DVI sockets, not mini. There is no mini DVI socket on the monitor, so the cable it comes with is useless if you bought a Quadro P1000 or higher. So I had to buy a new DVI to DVI cable. Lost a night of work because of this.- The driver CD that ships with the monitor doesn't contain the pallet master software. Just download it right?? No... BENQ had an outage last night and so I could not download the pallet master software to verify the calibration and lost another night of work. It's back up today so I was able to download it.- While I was doing that, saw there was a more recent monitor driver dated 2-5-2018. The one installed is dated 5-5-2017, so I obviously wanted to update. I downloaded the file and discovered it was packed in RAR format. Now kids, I am a huge nerd going way back, but my rar days are over. Luckily my little brother is still a huge nerd and unpacked it for me so i didn't have to download some shady unpacker. I install the driver and guess what? It's the exact same one as the existing one 5-5-2017. It's mislabeled on the BENQ website. I open the INF to very and sure enough. It's v1.0.0.0. So that was 15 minutes ill never get back. Thanks BENQ for wasting more of my time.- In general, BENQs website performs well if you live in 1994. It's hosted in Taiwan. RTT to the site is over 200ms. My guess is that BENQ sells a few items in the US, so it might be nice to go ahead and drop a replica of the site over here. That, and hire just one native English speaker to proof your copy. Thanks.- That calibration report. Yeah there is one, but you will need an electron microscope to read it. The issue is, they have enough content to fill an 8.5x14 sheet of paper but decided to print it on 8.5x11.SummaryGood thing BENQ know how to build monitors, because they are not good at anything else. Wait, they shipped me a stuck pixel... so I'll rephrase: They're pretty good at building monitors that look great, except for a pixel or two, and light bleed, and they are not good at much else. With BENQ, it's death by a thousand cuts. For the price, I'm still a buy recommendation, but just barely. My advice is to buy this product from amazon so that you can send it back for any reason. BENQ's dead pixel policy would not cover my situation. BENQ should hire a few Apple execs, and implement 4% of what Apple do in terms of fit/finish/polish, which will make BENQ 400% better off than they are now, which means that right now as a business they seem very immature. XOXOXO