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expirediconian | Staff posted May 26, 2021 04:00 AM
Datacolor SpyderX Colorimeters: Pro Elite $170, Pro
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It can be used with IPS panels.
This is because this probe has very limited dark reading capability, its sensors can not reliably read deeply into black, which is required for higher contrast displays.
You CAN calibrate TVs with colorimeters, but with TV's CMS, usually you can only correct for Grey balance/ White point/ Gamma curve.
You can not do full color correction except with specialized software like calman with specific TVs.
The PC + TV option can also do full color correction with madvr, but that is through software on the pc, independent of the TV's color management system.
I don't recommend this probe, (AT ANY PRICE), the i1display studio or i1display pro are much better probes capable of doing all panel types, and it doesn't cost much.
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Are the Spyder colorimeters any good? I thought I'd seen people say their sensors only last a couple years before they start to become less and less accurate as opposed to the X-Rite i1Display Pro which stays accurate long into the future. Is that accurate?
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Are the Spyder colorimeters any good? I thought I'd seen people say their sensors only last a couple years before they start to become less and less accurate as opposed to the X-Rite i1Display Pro which stays accurate long into the future. Is that accurate?
Does anyone know if there are any hardware differences between the Pro and the Pro Elite, or is it all just software? If I get this, I plan to use it with DisplayCAL, so if the hardware is the same I'll definitely go for the cheaper option.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Are the Spyder colorimeters any good? I thought I'd seen people say their sensors only last a couple years before they start to become less and less accurate as opposed to the X-Rite i1Display Pro which stays accurate long into the future. Is that accurate?
If you are a working professional, go with the display pro. If you're just a hobbyist looking to get things reasonably close, this is a good option. You will get more longevity with the display pro, but you'll also get several good years out of this too.
You could also go with the display studio, which has the same superior internals as the display pro, but with slower calibration speed.
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It can be used with IPS panels.
This is because this probe has very limited dark reading capability, its sensors can not reliably read deeply into black, which is required for higher contrast displays.
You CAN calibrate TVs with colorimeters, but with TV's CMS, usually you can only correct for Grey balance/ White point/ Gamma curve.
You can not do full color correction except with specialized software like calman with specific TVs.
The PC + TV option can also do full color correction with madvr, but that is through software on the pc, independent of the TV's color management system.
I don't recommend this probe, (AT ANY PRICE), the i1display studio or i1display pro are much better probes capable of doing all panel types, and it doesn't cost much.
The price difference is trivial because these things are so god damn useful.
It can be used with IPS panels.
This is because this probe has very limited dark reading capability, its sensors can not reliably read deeply into black, which is required for higher contrast displays.
You CAN calibrate TVs with colorimeters, but with TV's CMS, usually you can only correct for Grey balance/ White point/ Gamma curve.
You can not do full color correction except with specialized software like calman with specific TVs.
The PC + TV option can also do full color correction with madvr, but that is through software on the pc, independent of the TV's color management system.
I don't recommend this probe, (AT ANY PRICE), the i1display studio or i1display pro are much better probes capable of doing all panel types, and it doesn't cost much.
The bigger limitation is high brightness HDR images.
If you are a working professional, go with the display pro. If you're just a hobbyist looking to get things reasonably close, this is a good option. You will get more longevity with the display pro, but you'll also get several good years out of this too.
You could also go with the display studio, which has the same superior internals as the display pro, but with slower calibration speed.
Still trying to figure out if there are any hardware differences between the Pro and the Pro Elite. If it's all software, I'll be much more likely to go with the Pro as I'm just going to use DisplayCAL, anyway.
The bigger limitation is high brightness HDR images.
This creates inaccurate banding, and broken color clipping near dark areas.
The default spyder software attaches a fake tail to the reading because the probe can't actually read the dark spot. (This is especially a problem with displaycal because dispcal doesn't attach the fake tail data that the default software does.)
I'm not saying you can't use this probe, but there's honestly no reason to buy it, when the i1disp studio is so much better and at a very negligible cost difference. .
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