Picture Quality

The EIZO FlexScan EV2795 features an 8-bit IPS panel capable of displaying 16.77 million colors. The screen uses a White-LED (W-LED) backlight unit. It's controlled by a hybrid system that combines direct current (DC) and pulse-width modulation (PWM). Why didn't Eizo go with a "pure" DC system? Because of the Auto EcoView brightness sensor, which requires the aforementioned hybrid system to work properly. When the brightness is set to anywhere from 49% to 100%, the backlight is controlled by DC. From 0% to 48%, a high-frequency (10 kHz), low-amplitude PWM is used to control it. I didn't spot any flickering at any brightness level. In practice, you'll most likely never have the brightness set below 49% anyway, as that would make the picture too dark for any kind of usage, which means you won't enter the "PWM zone" of the hybrid backlight control system.

The screen coating on the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 is light anti-glare (AG). The screen is very resistant to reflecting its surroundings even when used in a room with a lot of natural or artificial light, and the picture isn't perceived as grainy or dirty from a normal sitting distance, which can be the case with heavier AG coatings. The maximum specified brightness of the panel is 350 nits, accompanied by a static contrast ratio of 1,000:1.

To test the picture quality of the EIZO FlexScan EV2795, I've used two colorimeters: the Datacolor Spyder5ELITE+ and excellent X-Rite i1Display Pro, which is the latest addition to my set of monitor-testing tools.

Picture Quality at Factory Settings

The picture quality of the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 at its factory defaults was tested right after plugging it in and allowing it to warm up for about an hour. At its factory settings, the "User1" color mode (picture profile) is active. The Auto EcoView option is turned on, so the exact level of actual brightness will depend on the amount of ambient lighting in your work environment. In my office, which is usually dimly lit, the EcoView sensor automatically brought the brightness all the way down to 21 nits. As I didn't find that usable, I deactivated both Auto EcoView and EcoView Optimizer 2. After doing so, the monitor had the brightness set to 91 (222 nits of actual brightness), contrast to 50%, color temperature to 6500K, gamma to 2.2, hue and saturation to 0 (neutral value), and gain to 84 (Red), 88 (Green) and 100 (Blue). The latter would imply that every single sample of this monitor gets checked and finely tuned before leaving the factory. Overdrive is set to Standard.

The only customization I had to make was to increase the Brightness to 94 (Menu > Color > Brightness) in order to get it closer to the desired level of 250 nits. That left me with a measured brightness of 248 nits with a measured white point of 6.564 K. Without touching anything else or doing any sort of picture calibration, the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 looks great. The colors are vivid and punchy, but don't seem artificially (over)saturated. The gradients look smooth and accurate with absolutely no banding to be seen. There's no noticeable backlight bleed or uniformity issues.

When stretched over 27 inches, the 2,560x1,440 screen resolution offers a pixel density of around 109 PPI. For many users, myself included, this is an optimal resolution for 27-inch screens because it looks very sharp while remaining completely usable with no Windows scaling. While a 4K panel is even sharper, it will force you to bump the Windows scaling level to 150% at 27". That results in an identical amount of screen real estate as at 2,560x1,440 resolution with 100% scaling. In other words, the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 gives you the same amount of room to work with as a 27" 4K panel without the hassles of using the imperfect Windows scaling feature. While this is by no means a gaming monitor, the 2,560x1,440 resolution is also far less stressful for your system should you want to use it for an occasional game of Valorant and Among Us, or anything else you might be interested in.


As we can see by looking at the CIE diagram, we get a 100% coverage of the sRGB and 79% coverage of the Adobe RBG color space out of the box, which is completely in line with what we'd expect from a standard-gamut IPS monitor.


The measured display gamma was 2.3, with the target being set to 2.2. However, the graph shows only a tiny bit of deviation from the ideal value, which is fantastic as gamma-related issues are not easy to fix without a proper calibration.


I also took a measurement of the gamma after setting the target to 1.8, which is the second most popular value among users. The quantified measured value again had an offset of 0.1, sitting at 1.9, but the graph again shows very little deviation from the set value. Excellent! As already stated earlier, you're free to set the gamma to any value from 1.8 to 2.4. The 0.1 offset of the measured gamma value compared to the selected one remains unchanged across the board.

These are the measured brightness and contrast values for various brightness settings:


Here, we can again see that the actual brightness of the FlexScan EV2795 is very low all the way up to the 70% brightness setting in the OSD, which is what causes the contrast values to be surprisingly low at lower brightness settings. At more usable brightness levels, the static contrast sits around 800–850:1, which is in line with what we'd expect from a business monitor with an IPS panel.


In terms of color uniformity, the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 isn't very impressive, at least not at higher brightness levels. As you can see, the entire left third of the panel shows a Delta-E deviation of 4.6–4.9 at 100% brightness. Even though you'd be hard pressed to notice it with the naked eye, it's in fact there, and that could potentially make your life difficult if you were to use this monitor for professional video or photo editing. As the brightness drops, color uniformity greatly increases. At 50% brightness, it measures Delta-E 2.8 (bottom-left corner) or lower, which most users have no chance of ever spotting.


The luminance is excellent. Any oscillations that don't venture above 10% are next to impossible to spot with the naked eye. In other words, even though the colorimeter shows us that the middle-left part of the screen is up to 11% darker than its center, that's not something you'll be able to perceive while using the monitor. I rarely see this kind of uniformity on monitors that pass through my hands.


Out-of-the-box color accuracy is impressive. With the average Delta-E being as low as 0.92, the color precision of the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 is superb. Once again, this test has been done without any monitor calibration, simply by using the User1 factory profile.

Let's analyze what happens when we switch between the factory color profiles. These measurements have been taken without any additional adjustments of the profiles.

Picture Quality After Calibration

I calibrated the display by using the X-Rite i1Display Pro colorimeter and i1Profiler software. Initial profiling and calibration was done with the luminance target set to 250 nits, white point target set to CIE Illuminant D65, and gamma set to 2.2.

Here's what the color accuracy looks after the screen has been calibrated.



The average Delta-E was lowered all the way to 0.5, and the highest Delta-E dropped from 4.78 to 2.4. These are some seriously impressive numbers for any office and productivity monitor.

Backlight Uniformity

To give you an idea of the backlight's uniformity, brightness was set to 120 and 250 nits before I took photos in a completely dark room. I did my best to find a combination of the ISO value and shutter speed that would capture the screen in a way that has it look as close to what my eyes were seeing in real life.



At 250 nits, we can see that all four corners of the screen are ever so slightly brighter than the rest of it. Some slight backlight bleed can be spotted along the bottom edge of the panel as well. I was unable to notice this in everyday usage, which is why I'm can't interpret it as a real issue. At 120 nits, it's even less visible, even in a completely dark, windowless room with the monitor displaying a pitch black photo.

Viewing Angles

This being an IPS-type panel, so the viewing angles are great. There's no visible shift in colors when you change your sitting position. You'll have a lot of freedom to move your head any way you like.


Here's a photo of a completely black screen taken at a wide angle. Don't confuse what you see with backlight bleed—it's IPS glow, an inherent feature of the technology. It looks nasty, but isn't an issue at all because you won't see it at a normal sitting distance if your eyes are roughly level with the center of the screen. If you find yourself noticing it in everyday usage, you're simply sitting too close to the monitor.