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How many of you use these monitor calibration tools?

Posted by DaneRead on 18 March 2008 at 09:28

Hi

How many of you use these monitor calibration tools.
I have ordered the Spyder3 Pro was wondering if anyone of you have used them and how do they work.

Regards

Dane

tived replied 17 years, 6 months ago 6 Members · 10 Replies
10 Replies

Peter Munday

Member
18 March 2008 at 10:33

Dane, bought one off E-Bay, went through the set up process and after an hour of fiddling there was no difference. If I had known you where in the market for one you could of had mine cheap. Worst £100 spent last year. 👿

Peter
David Rowland

Member
18 March 2008 at 10:35

i got a cheapo for CRT monitors a few years back.. no good for flats… if anything it worked well to create monitor profiles for Corel Draw, that it did do well. However an Apple Monitor works better
DaneRead

Member
18 March 2008 at 13:35

Hi peter

Which one do you have.
Peter Munday

Member
18 March 2008 at 17:53

Dane, it’s the Spider 2 suite.

Peter
DaneRead

Member
19 March 2008 at 07:09

i dont even know how these things work. Which is one problem.

A family member has bought it for me in singapore and is coming up here for a hoilday at the end of the week.

He is a professional photographer and does video editing. He said that you have to have one in order to get good colour. Will keep you posted and tell you of the results.
Calvin.Turner

Member
25 March 2008 at 00:14

I have an Eye one (HP branded) which is one of the "budget end" ones from gretag macbeth. When I first used it I was amazed how much the colours on my monitor changed. Prior to using it I’d used the adobe gamma tool – the one where you squint and try and get the fine lines all one colour.
As for how it works, I cant say if its the same for them all but I imagine its similar. It sticks on the screen and the software flashes a multitude of colours, the gadget presumably measures these colours and then profiles your monitor accordingly.
Steve Vallis

Member
25 March 2008 at 18:22

There are 2 types of device 1 a colourimeter 2 Spectrometer

Go for the spectrometer its much more accurate.

Gretag macbeth make a version called Eye One Photo

http://shop.colourconfidence.com/product.php?xProd=1815&xSec=10385
tived

Member
17 April 2008 at 04:38

it should be mandatory to have a monitor profiler if you do anything with tone, contrast or color and any combination of this.

those who think they don’t need it, are either very lucky 😀 or .!@#$%.. never mind! (:)

X-rite (GretagMacBeth is now X-rite as they merged) have the EyeOne II and Datavision has the Spyder3 which are both excellent products for monitor calibration only.
The Pro version of EyeOne, which is available in the EyeOnePhoto kits is better yet, and this will also profile other devices in your food chain

You also really need to consider your screen, LCD’s are not as forgiving as the CRT’s were and good LCD’s are XPENSIVE. Their will be those who will say that their $299 is just perfect, but that is only because they have not seen how the colors really look like 🙂
EIZO, NEC, SAMSUNG’s high end monitors are able to view a large color gamut, such as AdobeRGB, whereas others only view sRGB or :evil:RGB which is a much smaller color space.

Color management is vital for this and other industries where we view and produce product people are seeing. all red’s are not the red 🙂

cheers

Henrik
DaneRead

Member
17 April 2008 at 06:15

hi ii ended up getting the spyder3 pro i haven’t found it has helped me. i think maybe im not calibrating it properly.
I find i am getting "OK" colours but i find soft proof in flexi changes the colors wrongly. I have also seen the the ambient light in my room has detected too high so i dont think i will ever get acurate colour.

its really irritating me and i dont have the time to spend hours getting it right. At the moment i find the screen is too white.

im going to try and doo soem more reading up on it and find what setting to select. ie gamma range etc.
tived

Member
18 April 2008 at 04:57

Hi
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there is a bit of an art to this. Yes, you editing (digital darkroom) needs to be relative dark, your monitor is what needs to be what catches you eye as soon as you come in, and of course when you are sitting and working.

get your monitor down to a brightness to 90 cdm 6500K gamma 2.2

however, your viewing condition when viewing prints needs to be around 5000k – see SOLUX light bulbs!!!

there are ISO standards for this – that you may want to check out $$$

the spyder will do the job, but if you can replace it with an iOne, then go for it!!!

cheers

Henrik

PS: at least you are trying