Moniter calibration.

[Spinner]

I went through and recal'ed my moniter and the results seem quite good.
However it's an amatuer eye-ball effort as measuring devices have been outside my price range.
Today I noticed that the ColourVision Spyder2 in its basic form, the Express not Pro, has fallen to us $62-99, on Amazon. Thats getting very reasonable.
I would like to get consistant accurate calibrations and the eyes arent as young as they once were, so I'm tempted.
So has anyone had experience of said device?
It was known amongst wedding photographers for yellow casts in whites, obviously a big no no with acres of white satin bridal gowns. But thats a few years ago and the software has changed as well as the spyder.
cheers

[kiwi123]

I've used one last year. It sure made a difference for our CRTs, the TFTs were pretty much spot on already.
You need to make sure you do calibration in the dark, as we couldn't do that in our office, we had to cover the screen with a box.

[Spinner]

Thanks for the tip.
I'm lucky, having total control of ambient light in the room concerned.
Cheers

[Skyraider3D]

A colleague of mine has one of those professional calibration kits and used it to calibrate his dual monitors. The results on the monitors, which are placed next to eachother, were totally out of sync with eachother :) I guess it says more about the crap monitors than the calibration kit, but still... no miracle cure clearly if your monitor isn't good.


I usually make sure I can distinguish RGB (0,0,0) from (1,1,1) and (254,254,254) from (255,255,255) at the highest possible contrast setting. Then open Notepad and try to make it as neutral white as possible :)
No rocket science for sure but it kinda works. My website and images at least look OK on almost every monitor.

[Spinner]

Thats an interesting and logical way ofchecking.
I'll try that.
I'm fairly content with my current recal. I's sorted all the issues I'd noticed.
Self doubt, maybe, to want a technolgical solution.

[Art 111]

Ronnie!
I'll try Your way! It seems to be good!
I'm using standard Adobe calibrate system, and for me is very accurate.

[Cirric]

Spinner,
I "had" to get the Spyder2 Pro -for photography, and matching several PCs and a Macbook Pro display. The difference after calibration wasn't drastic - but the overall effect is really noticeable when viewing images. (more precise skin tones, a true-er colors) -
The ONLY downside - the profile manager for windows will only load ONE profile Per card. I have a PC with a dual-head card, running dual monitors. I just set the default to load the Left monitor, and configure Photoshop/MAX/editors to open on the Left Monitor, with Email and text applications on the right. - it works great.

[Skyraider3D]

Skintones ey...? I bet your wife doesn't enjoy your new job as much as you do! ;)

[Cirric]

:eek: :err: :eek:
I'm shocked - SHOCKED I SAY!!!

Actually, given most of the models so far - I think my wife would laugh her ass off at that comment ;) - especially the 50th Wedding anniversary photos (Eye Bleach anyone?) - not to mention that she's probably happy not to be the test model anymore.

- Just for Ronnie: It (the Spyder2 calibration) also helps provide a truer representation of materials and textures - even in Half-Life 2.

:rolleyes: