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Earlier today, I completed filming with my good friend Tony Knight at his Melbourne studio for BenQ’s brand new flagship 27″ SW272U 4K Adobe RGB Photographic Monitor that is now available to pre-order from BenQ. The list of specifications is awe-inspiring, and this new flagship 4K monitor appears to tick all the boxes and be a game-winning home run for BenQ. Look for my unboxing and first impressions video in the next week.

BenQ SW272U

Fine-coated Panel with TUV-Certification
Certified with TUV Rheinland Reflection-Free Certifications, SW272U utilizes fine-coating anti-reflection panel to eliminate glare and reflection for simulated paper-texture visual experiences on screen under different types of ambient lighting to get perfect results.

The AQCOLOR Advantage
BenQ AQCOLOR technology delivers ‘Accurate Reproduction.’ This translates to the display of colour precisely as it is intended to appear. Led by a colour expert, the BenQ team took part in the ICC* and ISO** to establish colour-related standards and implementation guidelines. Covering 99% Adobe RGB, P3 and 100% sRGB colour spaces, with Delta E ≤ 1.5 and BenQ ICCsync, SW272U offers out-of-the-box and easy-to-reach colour accuracy. The 16-bit 3D lookup table (LUT) improves colour blending for precise reproduction.

BenQ Uniformity Technology
Create with confidence. Enjoy consistent colour accuracy and brightness consistency throughout each panel.

Calman Verified, Pantone Validated, and 3rd-Party Video Calibration Software Supported
BenQ PhotoVue monitors are accredited with Calman Verified, Pantone Validated and Pantone SkinTone Validated certifications. Creative professionals demand colour excellence, and BenQ delivers. Moreover, SW272U supports world-leading video calibration software, Calman and ColourSpace. Adjust your display’s 3D LUT (Lookup Table) for accuracy and consistency at all levels.

Palette Master Ultimate
Tune and maintain the color performance of your monitors with Palette Master Ultimate software and get the optimal colour consistency in 3 steps.

Realized Outputs As the Way You Intended
Whether you’re retouching photos in Adobe RGB or editing 4K videos in DCI-P3, SW272U’s wide colour coverage showcases your talent, letting your finished work look the way you intended.

Paper Color Sync
Paper Color Sync offers simulated images attuned to the colour settings, printer, and photo paper in use for easy and accurate photo preview before print.

GamutDuo Preview for Adobe RGB, sRGB, and more
Preview the same image in two color gamuts, side-by-side, for comparison in photo editing.

P3 Color Preview for Digital Outputs
Deliver accurate colours to videos with P3 colour space for your video projects.

Video Format Support
SW272U helps pros get the best video results with HDR support and multiple video formats.

Select SDI to HDMI Device Compatibility
BenQ has tested select SDI to HDMI devices as compatible with SW272U. Videographers can thus connect their SDI devices to the monitor for stable and non-compressed signal transmission and real quality video image.

HDR10 and HLG
Thanks to SDI to HDMI Device Compatibility, SW272U is also HDR10- and HLG-compatible, making it perfect to preview the HDR effect of video content during the editing process for best results.

Chroma Sampling Support or Video Format

Combined with the above video format compatibilities, SW272U supports 4:4:4, 4:2:2, and 4:2:0 sampling in determining monitor fidelity.

Expand Your Efficiency
Quick to transfer various data and deliver power.

Hotkey Puck G3
Cordless for unlimited convenience.

Convenient Design
Easy to access OSD, I/O port, and card reader efficiently.

Leatherette Base
Save the workspace for valuable items.

Pantone Connect Premium
Go digital with BenQ, the first brand to work with Pantone on a mobile app. As an existing owner or a new purchaser of BenQ professional monitors, you get one year of free Pantone Connect Premium for digitally mobile colour consistency and accuracy.

Shading Hood
The detachable shading hood effectively reduces screen glare from ambient lighting. Block external light for stellar colour accuracy.

CalMAN Certified
All BenQ PhotoVue monitors earn Calman Verified and Pantone Validated status. In close collaboration between BenQ and Portrait Displays, the Verified by CalMAN program ensures each display to be accurate out of the box and true to multiple industry-standard colour gamuts. The Verified by CalMAN mark is only given to the highest-grade of displays.

Pantone Certified
In 2019, BenQ announced that it’s SW series of monitors became the world’s first stand-alone displays to earn the Pantone Validated status, ensuring colour-matched inter-operability with a plethora of production-grade colour output devices qualified by Pantone. Pantone Validated provides designers and photographers confidence in the Pantone colours rendered on-screen throughout their creative process, to better align materials in Pantone colours or simulations using Pantone-licensed output solutions.

Rigorously evaluated and approved by Pantone colour experts, BenQ SW monitors offer integrated colour correction and BenQ-exclusive AQCOLOR technology to guarantee superior fidelity in colour accuracy, including tested quality in achieving Pantone Matching System (PMS) colours. In use by virtually every colour-critical industry and manufacturer worldwide, the PMS system is a universal language of colour that allows creative professionals to specify and match specific colours, regardless of the equipment and materials used to produce the exact colour.

You can read more information on BenQ becoming Pantone Verified here.

World’s First Pantone SkinTone Validated Certification

As of 2022, the BenQ SW series became the world’s first stand-alone displays to achieve Pantone SkinTone Validated certification. Pantone SkinTone Validated supports the Pantone SkinTone guide, the first of it’s kind for matching and reproducing a wide range of human skin tones that accurately reflects the diversity of our multicultural society.

Full specifications avaialble on BenQ’s website.