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expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Sep 9, 2020
Sep 9, 2020 4:00 AM
Datacolor SXP100 SpyderX Pro Colorimeter
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If the "display device" is hooked up to a windows pc, it can be calibrated with any spyder. To calibrate a projector you just need to "show" the spyder the picture on a tripod. The spider 4's had this feature, the spyder 5's still had the tripod mount and it was an undocumented feature. The trick still works with the latest spyders.
I know noone wants to hear "just pay double" but the X-rite i1Display (used to be called color monki) is worlds better and wont degrade over time.
So if you just want to true up an ips display (and maybe charge your freinds 10 bucks to true up their displays) get the $100 spyder. If you depend on color for a paycheck/side hustle, or want to use it for more than 2 years, get the x-rite.
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Does anyone know if the software will let you install onto many computers, as I assume its only needed while you are performing the calibration with the device and then you are done..?
Thanks
Ben
Does anyone know if the software will let you install onto many computers, as I assume its only needed while you are performing the calibration with the device and then you are done..?
Thanks
Ben
2 Monitors may NEVER achieve the same color. CCT the way in which the colors are manipulated can not full correct for the underlying difference in backlight.
Even the same model monitor, made on the same line will have slight difference in backlight spectrum. This spectrum will produce a different color regardless of how the rgb numerics are manipulated.
HIGH END monitors are sorted for more rigorous backlight characteristics. But this is expensive, nothing under $2000 (professional monitors). Even Apple's latest HDR display has garbage backlight uniformity.
If you want Matching, you need $2000+ Eizos. or equivalent panels from makers like Flander scientific. Panasonic / Sony proofing reference lines.
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Does anyone know if the software will let you install onto many computers, as I assume its only needed while you are performing the calibration with the device and then you are done..?
Thanks
Ben
For PC calibration, use Displaycal. It supports this probe. More importantly, displaycal profile loader WORKS.
I highly recommend xrite probes, These spyderx probes are very inconsistent unit to unit, and they can't read deeply into black, which can create deadzone measurements on some monitors. AVOID spyder5 and spyderX probes @ any price, Maybe $25 , I'd buy one for $25, but no more. If I even have to go up to $50, I'd rather spend $150 for the xrite studio. i1display pro is only $150 during black friday.
Get the Xrite studio or i1display pro for your team.
I love all your knowledge, excellent thank you!
You're last paragraph kills me, so true to slickdeals. Wanna calibrate your friend's monitors with this cool $100 gizmo? CHARGE EM THE PLEASURE OF KNOWING YOU! I guess that's how you pay off the slickdeal and buy the next one!!!
NEVER lend tools. Especially precision instruments.
Get the Xrite studio, AVOID all current datacolor probes.
The type of colorblindness that results in only the rods being functional is very severe, and results in difficulty reading since there are no rods in the macula/fovea. Most colorblindness is really just color deficiency. It's kind of like 16-bit or 20-bit color compared to 24-bit or 32-bit. I can still see green, red, blue, yellow, etc., but not to the degree of separation as most people. I often have trouble telling the difference between black and dark navy blue. I have trouble with purple and blue or pink and gray. Sometimes brown and green may look similar. You can put two colors beside each other, and I can tell that they are different, but not necessarily be able to correctly identify them.
That means you either have 3 color sensor, or 4 color sensor.
In the case of color blindness, it's a blanketing term that covers many abnormalities, in MOST cases, what you have is 2 of sensors that have a response curve very close to one another, for example Red-Green. They call it red green, but it impacts all color perception.
Normally , there is a bigger response difference between the sensor, that helps with differentiation, but it is "posited" that red-green colorblindness improves detection of camoflage predators in nature, which is why it is sometimes (not always) for the SPOTTER personel assigned to snipers to be a colorblind person.
This is a bad product period.
unless you have two monitors that are almost the exact same, then it won't match.
lots of graphics people use only 1 properly calibrated monitor and the others are just reference.
To FULLY have a REFERENCE setup, you need to spend at least $2000 for the monitor, $5000 for the Spectrometer to create the backlight compensation curve, and the $200 for the Colorimeter, <something like this probe> but NOT THIS PROBE, because it's trash.
HCFR works with manual TV menu manipulation to set the rgb balance on the TV, and the primary/secondary gamut targets.
Displaycal, can create gamma compensation curves for system wide 1dimensional correction, and 3dimensional correction profiles (xyz profiles) for color aware applications.
the 3dimensional correction only works in color aware applications, like Madvr renderer, photoshop, things like that.
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I bought my first one for $49 shipped in 2019, and have a 2nd one NIB I picked up for $21 shipped.
Patience is a virtue (so are eBay saved searches).
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