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I have used NEC Spectraview monitors for years and wouldn't ever go back to using monitors that require third-party software and hardware to calibrate." COLORMUNKI DISPLAY TOO WARM SERIESThe NEC Spectraview series and the Eizo Coloredge series do this. Mark: "Easeplay ixnay ethay arachnidyay icspay."Ĭhristopher Crawford: "The best way to calibrate your screen is to use a screen with its own software and sensor that allows the internal lookup tables to be adjusted. ![]() Like you, Mike, I gave up calibrating after a while because I just didn't need to. I could not believe how off my monitor was. Hugh Smith: "I never calibrated my monitor until a few years back (with a Spyder) after reading Michael Reichman's suggestion to do so. ( To see all the comments, click on the "Comments" link below.) ![]() Links in this post may be to our affiliates sales through affiliate links may benefit this site. Original contents copyright 2016 by Michael C. I used to advise sharing a Spyder between a group of friends, to improve cost effectiveness, but that requires more organization than is required to keep track of a Spyder, and doubtless I will expire with that sound notion still in a vaporous and unexperienced state.īut a calibrated monitor is a basic must-have for photography these days, so a Munki or a Spyder you must have. Fortunately I don't buy a new computer very often. So-this is embarrassing to admit-each time I buy a new computer I end up buying a new Spyder. As with most things I hardly ever use, it has migrated into the land of Around Here Someplace, a land I have never been permitted to visit and will probably never be privileged to gaze upon. With two moves since 2011, my Spyder is.somewhere. I really only need the Spyder again when I buy a new computer (my current desktop is a mid-2011 model). I used to recheck every six months, then every year, only to find that good monitors didn't drift and that recalibration wasn't necessary. Once you're done with this very simple and fast procedure, you really have no more use for your fine $126 device. Therein lies the rub, and my only complaint. (My uncle is named Smokie Polk, but you know what I mean.) The unit is very easy to use.once you warm up your monitor (TOP's never gets cold!), dim your ambient light, and position the Spyder, a wizard walks you through an easy-to-follow five-minute calibrating procedure, and Bob's yer uncle. The last one I used was an earlier base-level Spyder the current version is the Spyder5Express ($126). Although I do like Spyders (so called because early versions had suction cups to stick to the glass of curved CRT displays the new ones look less like spiders and more like pucks). I've always used and recommended the lower-end options from Datacolor, and not because I like spiders. X-Rite's ColorMunki Smile is cheap ($89), but gets poor marks for buggy software. Me, I like to KISS, so I tend to use the lowest level (and lowest cost! -for reasons I will explain) calibration products. COLORMUNKI DISPLAY TOO WARM FULL(X-rite is a maker of a full line of professional color calibration tools, up to and including light booths.) Actually, he probably uses a higher-level product such as the ColorMunki Photo bundle ($460). ![]() I believe Ctein uses the X-Rite ColorMunki products, probably because he likes munkis. There are a number of ways to calibrate your monitor and a number of products to help you do it. A reader showed me a picture the other day that looked so "off" to me that it made me suspect he is working on an uncalibrated monitor. ![]()
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