Take Your Photography Work to the Next Level with the SW271 Monitor from BenQ

BenQ is dedicated to absolute colour accuracy. The SW271 display delivers industry standard colour performance for photo and video editing. Surpassing industry colour standards, BenQ dedicated itself to achieving the highest level of colour accuracy in every detail.

4K UHD Monitor
4K ultra HD resolution ensures extraordinary clarity of fine details and textures for an optimal viewing and visual-intensive work experience.

Hardware Calibration
Hardware calibration allows you to adjust the image processing chip in the monitor without changing the graphics card output data. It keeps images consistent with its original copies without being affected by graphic settings.

Hotkey Puck
Hotkey Puck lets you switch between Adobe RGB, sRGB, and Black & White modes effortlessly. The buttons can also be set to map other modes or OSD settings, such as brightness and contrast to bring added convenience for photo editing.

Shading Hood
The SW271 includes a detachable shading hood that effectively reduces the monitor’s screen glare resulting from ambient lighting, ensuring superb color accuracy required for professional work. The shading hood can be used in both portrait and landscape orientations.

USB-C Port
SW271 offers USB-C connectivity to transmit video and data with only one cable so you can do hardware calibration with ease. The USB-C port smoothly displays brilliant 4K contents and offers up to 5Gbps transfer rate.

Advanced Black & White Mode
View your photos in a black and white film effect. Choose from three different presets to preview your photos in before you perform actual adjustments in your photo processing program.

GamutDuo
GamutDuo enables you to view content simultaneously in different color spaces side-by-side for comparison. Switch to PIP/PBP mode to enable GamutDuo.

AQCOLOR | Colours You Can Trust

Devoted to meet the latest professional color standard, BenQ has developed AQCOLOR technology to uphold the concept: “Accurate Reproduction". BenQ has invited a color expert to lead the team, and also actively participated in ICC (International Color Consortium) and ISO (International Standard Organization) to establish color-related standards and implementation.

99% Adobe RGB

Adobe RGB color space offers a greater range of color reproduction for shades of blue and green, resulting in a more realistic color representation for outdoor and nature photography.

High Dynamic Range (HDR)

High Dynamic Range (HDR) increases the overall dynamic range between black and white so the resulting image appears closer to what your eyes see in the natural world.

*To view HDR content from your device, ensure that you use the HDMI cable provided with the SW271 monitor or an High Speed HDMI Cable or Premium High Speed HDMI Certified Cable.
*HDR function supports HDR 10 content.

14-Bit 3D LUT and Delta E ≤ 2

The 14-bit 3D Look Up Table (LUT) improves RGB color blending accuracy, resulting in impeccable color reproduction. Having Delta E≤2 in both Adobe RGB and sRGB color spaces gives you the truest and most representative view of the original image.

Calman Verified and Pantone Validated

BenQ professional monitors earn Calman Verified certification and are Pantone Validated. Creative professionals demand excellence, and BenQ delivers.

Palette Master Element Calibration Software

With the use of Palette Master Element and a calibrator, you can tune and maintain the colour performance of the monitor at its most optimal state.

Hardware calibration counts. Since a monitor is being used for longer periods of time, it will exhibit the phenomena of reduced brightness and colour shift more or less. To accurately represent the tones and colours of the photos on the screen, apply hardware calibration on a regular basis is necessary. That’s why you need suitable software to support it and BenQ has developed the software Palette Master Element. After a display is carefully hardware calibrated, it allows precise control when manipulating images for realistic or stylized results

Palette Master Element, BenQ proprietary software for hardware calibration, assists to hardware calibrate your monitor. It simplifies calibration process and produces accurate colour results. With its minimalist user interface, you can finish your hardware calibration just clicks away. Apply Palette Master Element to fine tune the colour engine on SW series monitors to fully support X-Rite / Datacolor colorimeter.

*Supported Platforms: Win7 or above, Mac OS 10.6.8 or above
*Supported Calibrators: X-Rite i1 Display Pro / i1 Pro / i1 Pro 2 & Datacolor Spyder 4 / Spyder 5

Basic Mode

Start with correct default profile, white point and luminance for monitor calibration. It’s easy to achieve colour accuracy with a simple user interface.

Advanced Mode

Your professional colour calibration completes with customized RGB primaries, white point, luminance, gamma and black point settings to get more refined adjustments