The 27-inch EIZO FlexScan EV2795 is one of the most complete office and productivity monitors on the market. It offers a USB-C port, which turns it into a docking station for modern laptops. The monitor's USB-C interface will extend their desktop, enable the use of peripherals plugged into three side-mounted USB 3.1 ports, and also charge their battery, with up to 70 watts of power. Want to connect two separate computers to your monitor and use both with a single set of peripherals? EIZO's got you covered. They installed a KVM switch, which seamlessly switches the peripherals between PCs as soon as you change video interfaces. To top it all off, there's a secondary USB-C port for daisy-chaining. With it, you can link together up to three additional monitors or two monitors and a notebook display.
The screen itself offers a full range of movement. You can adjust its height, tilt, and swivel, as well as rotate it to portrait mode in both directions. The supplied base and stand don't take up much room and are stable, which makes for a screen without wobble. The stand is easily detachable, so affixing the monitor to a standard VESA 100x100 mount is definitely an option.
The touch controls feel surprisingly responsive. Together with the intuitive and fairly simple OSD, setting up the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 is a breeze. Having said that, there are almost no options for you to fiddle with because the IPS panel of the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 comes factory pre-calibrated and delivers excellent performance out of the box. The only thing I'd recommend is to deactivate Auto EcoView, an ambient light sensor that adjusts the screen brightness according to your surroundings, but behaves too aggressively—it constantly tried to make the picture darker than I'd prefer for comfortable usage. If you aren't doing color-critical work, it's worth trying out, because it will reduce eye strain and lower power consumption.
Color accuracy and overall tonal balance are terrific. There are slight issues with color uniformity at the higher brightness settings, and some backlight bleed can be spotted when looking at a completely dark picture in a dark room, but none of that is really noticeable in everyday usage. I thoroughly enjoyed using the EIZO FlexScan EV2795 for browsing and writing reviews, as well as more demanding tasks, such as video editing in DaVinci Resolve and photo editing in Lightroom. It never failed me once. On the contrary, I was getting consistent and predictable results that looked great on every other device.
This high level of quality comes at a price that isn't easy to swallow. The EIZO FlexScan EV2795 will set you back around $1,300. For that amount money, you can buy two or three "normal" 27-inch IPS monitors; the Dell U2721DE comes to mind. Granted, their list of features will be shorter, but they won't fall behind too much in terms of raw picture quality. Then again, with EIZO, you're also buying into their entire philosophy of exceptional care given to such factors as low environmental impact, product durability, and sustainability, as well as social responsibility. Should you care about these aspects when it comes to buying your hardware, do check out their
Corporate Social Responsibility website, where you'll find their principles of conduct presented as "The Seven Promises."