EIZO in Japanese means image, and EIZO is renowned for producing high quality and performance lead monitors and peripherals globally. This is the first time EIZO has graced our labs, but what an entrance, not only the Flexscan F730 but also the T760. The F730 monitor comes standard with an Invar Shadow Mask Tube with a 90 degrees deflection, which gave little or no negative effects of reflection on the surface of the tube, obviously the SuperErgoCoat treatment applied to the surface did the trick. The monitor does give an impression of having a short-neck, due to it's back being raised upwards, and gives slightly more than a diagonal viewable image of just over 18", and has a dot pitch of 0.26mm. The monitor had no difficulty dealing with our test resolution of 1280 x 1024 at a refresh rate of 85Hz, supporting a maximum refresh rate of 107Hz at this resolution, it was to say the least, rock steady and gave a superb colour reproduction. The maximum resolution supported is 1660 x 1280 with a refresh rate of 92Hz now that's impressive. A new deflection yoke helps lower power consumption to 120 watts, and with PowerManager in standby mode the power consumption is reduced to a mere 3 watts. A four-way direction pad controls the OSD, it will take some getting used to, unless of course you like to tweak, then this is your paradise. A one-touch auto adjustment function allows you to set the monitor without having to tweak, but for us this was not very impressive.

In our Set-up Display section the F730 had some difficulty with the halos test and displayed slight fuzziness in the texture, this normally can be eradicated with turning down the brightness, but alas the problem remained and failed our test. Other than that, the monitor passed all the other tests. In the Geometry and Distortion section it failed the Screen Regulation and Pincushion/Barrel distortion tests, but passed the rest without any problems. In our Sharpness and Resolution section the F730 had problems dealing with Moiré test and no amount of fine-tuning could resolve the issues completely but a pass was given on the basis of some improvement. All the tests in our Colour and Greyscale sections passed without any problems, as it was clear the F730's Colour and Greyscale are where it's strength lay.

The EIZO FlexScan F730 has many fine points, except the price and the warranty. The warranty supplied is three years return to base, we would expect the warranty to be either on-site or at least collect and replace

EIZO FlexScan F760

The F760 shares many of the attributes its little brother has (The F730). The F760 sports an Aperture Grill 90 degrees Tension Mask CRT with the same SuperErgoCoat treatment applied to the surface, and the result in terms of quality image and resolution is second to none. The F760 has a dot pitch of 0.24mm. The monitor resolution and OSD controls are the same as the F730.

In our Set-up Display section the F760 encountered no difficulties and passed all our tests. In the Geometry and Distortion section we encountered difficulty with our tilt test, which gave a strange shadow in some colours, and could not be adjusted. In our Sharpness and Resolution section the F760 had problems dealing with Moiré test, as did the F730, and no amount of fine-tuning could resolve the issues completely but a pass was given on the basis of some improvement. All the tests in our Colour and Greyscale sections passed without any problems.

The EIZO FlexScan F760 scored the same points as our award winner, however the price and warranty suffer from the same scenario as the F730. Otherwise, this would be the monitor of our choice as the quality was superb.

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