When you lot're a creative professional in need of color accuracy, in that location are many high quality options bachelor on the market. We're looking at one of these monitors today, the ViewSonic VP3268, which is i of the highest-end monitors ViewSonic sells. It's a large 32-inch 3840 x 2160 IPS LCD, complete with unique features geared specifically towards professionals.

To make things clear, this monitor isn't designed for gaming. That's not to say you tin't apply information technology for that purpose, but you'd probably exist meliorate served with a like display for half the cost. The lack of a gaming focus is seen in the spec sheet, also, as this panel does non support variable refresh technology similar FreeSync, and its 14ms grey-to-greyness response time is adequately irksome, certainly slower than I'd want for gaming.

What you do get, though, is an first-class set of professional features. Each VP3268 is individually calibrated at the manufactory, with DeltaE levels below 2.0, to iv commonly used color spaces: sRGB, Rec. 709, SMPTE-C, and EBU. Each color infinite gets its ain display way accessible through the on screen brandish, and each comes with a detailed calibration study in the box and then yous tin verify whether the display is upwards to scratch.

The VP3268 also uses a true 8-chip console with support for upward to a 14-bit look upwardly table (LUT), and back up for ten-bit through FRC. It'southward not a true x-bit display, only and so neither is anything priced below $2000. The panel itself is an IPS LCD with a 1300:1 contrast ratio, 350 nits peak brightness and what ViewSonic claims is excellent uniformity: another key feature for professionals.

The monitor even supports HDR, though this characteristic isn't advertised and that's probably for a adept reason. More on that later.

I really similar the pattern of this display, and that's considering information technology gets the most important affair right: bezel size. The bezels around the VP3268 on all sides are extremely thin, which helps make the expansive 32-inch panel feel fifty-fifty larger. It also helps when y'all want to use multiple monitors – something artistic professionals almost e'er exercise – as you tin can put two of these displays side by side with a very modest gap between.

As far as construction is concerned, the monitor is well built just it doesn't go overboard with fancy materials or unnecessary flair. Most of the monitor uses basic plastic, and information technology's somewhat annoying that parts of the stand apply a glossy dust-attracting finish. The design looks good though, and won't look out of place on a professional person's desk. Did I mention the bezels are really slim? Yeah that'southward still the all-time part of the design.

All the stand adjustability you'd desire is included here, such as 130mm of height adjustment, 120 degrees of hinge, xc-degree pin so y'all can use the monitor in a portrait orientation, and a small though serviceable amount of tilt. And of course you can VESA mount it if yous desire.

What about connectivity? Well there's no shortage of display inputs: two HDMI 2.0 ports, a total-sized DisplayPort, and too a mini-DisplayPort. Mini-DP is an unusual connector to apply here, though I guess it must be useful for some people otherwise ViewSonic wouldn't have included it. There's too a set of 3.5mm sound jacks, i input and ane output, allowing you to either use the dual 5W internal speakers, or laissez passer through HDMI or DisplayPort audio. Oh, and there's a four port USB 3.0 hub likewise.

On a less positive note, the on screen display is difficult to control as it uses basic buttons rather than a directional toggle. If you lot want to change colour profile, that can exist accomplished relatively hands, but if you want to fine melody any other controls, it'south a difficult slog through menus that aren't really designed for these sort of controls.

Well-nigh of the controls in the OSD are relatively common inclusions; things such as brightness and dissimilarity sliders, color temperature controls, and settings for overdrive and so along. While I didn't find ghosting to be as well much of an issue with this display, despite the slow 14ms response times, switching overdrive to a medium setting did amend things. In fact ViewSonic even suggests y'all can halve the response times with an advisable overdrive setting.

It's not surprising that response times are less than ideal, because ViewSonic has opted for a professional person-course IPS LCD rather than a faster TN. What you lot practise get with the IPS panel is excellent viewing angles in all directions, helped through an anti-glare blanket. The 3840 x 2160 resolution this console uses isn't all that new these days, merely it's e'er nice to see such a precipitous and well-baked presentation at this size. I am still waiting on 4K displays with greater than sixty Hz refresh rates to hit the market place – they're supposed to be coming soon – though for now the VP3268 hits the maximum of 60 Hz that we've seen at this resolution.

In my testing, the display hit the marks that ViewSonic lists in their specification sail for effulgence and contrast. When cranked upwards to the maximum, the VP3268 achieved but a bit over 350 nits in my testing, while contrast was effectually 1460:1, higher than the 1300:ane ViewSonic states. This is maintained well at lower effulgence levels too, falling around 1400:1 as you lot move down to 120 nits.

Uniformity is outstanding, exactly as you'd look from a professional-form display. No backlight drain to speak of, and a sub-one.5 deltaE colour divergence relative to the center. Nigh quadrants are actually a sub-ane.0 dE departure and this improves at darker greyscale levels. I oasis't still seen a cheaper or gaming-focused monitor that achieves similar levels of uniformity, so it'due south clear this is i thing you'll only get with a more expensive monitor similar this.