Which Monitor, under £300, & Calibration?

Hi All,
I'm going to upgrade from my old dell monitor by the end of this year, and I would appreciate your recommendations in suggesting possible monitors that work well with Lightroom & Photoshop, say for under £300? I live in the UK so would need to be from a retailer here. What about Ebuyer?
Similarly, can you recommend the best free way to calibrate my monitor?
In your honest opinion, if I'm spending £300 on a new screen, should I then spend another couple of hundred quid on the calibration software? What do you use/did use to calibrate your screen?
Thanks again for your help,
Joe

Hello Joe
I've been going through the same decision process and was about to post a similar message to yours.  After a review of the market, I've decided to stay with my 5 year old Sony X95 with an MVA screen for a while longer in the hope that the choices/specifications will improve.
Here is a summary of the information I used to arrive at my decision.  You need a monitor which has a display whose colour does not change with viewing angle  (read this -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT_LCD to explain the terminology).  That rules out a TN screen (and 95% of the market), ideally you want an IPS display (preferably P-IPS) which will give you 30 bit colour depth (1.07B colours).  I could only find two models in my price bracket: the Dell U2410 at under £500 (which does come calibrated (says Dell), so you don't need to spend money on a calibration package) and an HP LP2475W, at the same price point but apparently without the calibration feature. There is also an LG W3000H at a price close to £1000, this LG W00 series has only the one 30inch monitor, maybe smaller cheaper models in the series will appear later.
For calibration, I was only interested in getting my monitor to match both my printer output and the subject and I started from this guide years ago (which I am surprised to see still exists):   http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html.  I calibrated by eye using the various test images you can download and range of subjects I collected.  I realise that this is not good enough for sending images for publication.
I look forward to reading the responses from the forum.
Frank

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