My CRT monitor having failed, I intend soon to buy my first TFT monitor. One of my main uses is to deal with photographs from my Olympus E500 which of course have a 4:3 ratio.However, the iiyama Prolite E1900S monitor which I currently favour, with a resolution of 1280 x 1024, has a ratio of 5:4. What effect would this have on the display of 4:3 photographs - would they distort OR come up with black bands (top and bottom) OR would they need to appear in a window smaller than the screen ? Or should I stick to models which have a 4:3 ratio ? And would a wide-screen monitor make ratio problems even worse, or are there advantages that I may not have realised ?