Colorvision Spyder4Pro

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23 Jan 2013 - 6:05 PM

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keithh (e2 Member)

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23 Jan 2013 - 6:19 PM

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Yes.....

GarethRobinson

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23 Jan 2013 - 6:38 PM

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It works, does what it says on the tin, quick and easy.

BillyGoatGruff (e2 Member)

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23 Jan 2013 - 6:40 PM

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Cool.

Thanks guys.
It's on offer at Amazon and I have a gift voucher, too.
Just needed to know if it wa a worthwhile purchase.

Cheers

keithh (e2 Member)

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23 Jan 2013 - 7:01 PM

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I need a new one and will be joining you at that price.

BillyGoatGruff (e2 Member)

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23 Jan 2013 - 7:11 PM

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Order is placed - should be here in a couple of days....
Then I'll be asking stupid questions like "which way up does it go??"...

Thanks for the comments guys - just what I was after

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24 Jan 2013 - 9:11 AM

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Of course, the real question is "How do you know that it is actually working correctly?"

I use it to calibrate my monitors and am happy with the results. But I use two identical Dell 27" U2711 Ultrasharps and when I use the Spyder to calibrate both, they are never exactly the same in terms of tones and tints. Both are good enough for my purposes (i.e. general photoprocessing) but the fact there are slight differences means that one (or possibly both) are not quite right.

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25 Jan 2013 - 3:00 PM

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Quote: Yep, LF that's a good point.

Still,l I've spent the money now and it'll be better than not using anything except the screen's own software (Samsung).
I'm sure it'll be good enough for my needs.

Yep.

The real benefit of calibrating your screen using Spyder (or similar) is that if you process a photograph on your computer and then send it to a website (like here) or to a competition, or whatever, then anyone looking at your photograph should see something fairly similar to what you see - provided, of course, that they have also calibrated their monitor.

For example, I know that an image projected on our camera club projector will look similar to my left-hand monitor but a wee bit less like my right-hand monitor. So when processing digital images for club competitions, I do so with the image on my l-h screen and my palettes on the r-h. My printer, on the other hand, using the standard Epson profiles, produces prints pretty well identical to my r-h monitor - so if processing for a print, I reverse the use of the screens.

In reality, I suspect that the reason I do get a slight difference between the two screens is that they are getting a different mix of ambient light falling on them (although, theoretically, I thought Spyder 4 should have compensated for that. Maybe I need to position the doofur differently.