Anyone bother with monitor calibrators these days?

[arknor]

I was doing a bit of research seems the spyder ones are crap
most the brands entry level models would be useless for HDR/OLED monitors and the best make is Calibrite

So the entry level model ends up being

Calibrite Display SL £160​

Standard luminance and upto 1000nits

or

Calibrite Display PRO HL £190​

High luminance and upto 3000 nits

Anyone still bother to calibrate there monitors these days or just grab a colour profile from like R-tings and be done with it?

Seems expensive for something that might not make a massive difference anyway and would only get used a few times a year :S


surprised people don't buy them and offer to set up peoples monitor colour profiles for like £25 or something.
would be easy money surely?

 

[arknor]

How easy are they to use? I'd want it to be a press one button and that's it, not spend hours on each test screen then manually changing levels.

Plus monitor has it's own settings so how does it corrrect for that, pity they can't control the monitor over USB or something so the calibration software adjusts monitor contrast etc itself

Calibrate do a 123 one that's supposed to be easy but its basic and doesn't support HDR/oled etc

They make a colour profile you use in windows, as said some review sites like Rtings use a calibrator during reviews and on the review you can usually find the profile they mad (you also need to use the same brightness and contrast setting they say in the review, it made a huge difference on my monitor and looks way better than how I adjusted it., but no 2 monitors are the same so that profile won't be optimal for my monitor, also lighting conditions matter etc
which is why calibration tools exist, unless your doing work that needs accurate colours etc then I guess it doesn't matter.

pity they can't control the monitor over USB or something

Maybe they can? like I have dell software for my monitor that can change the settings within windows instead of using my monitors controls.
It just needs the monitors usb cable hooked up to your pc I guess, the one you use for firmware updates to your monitor.

 

[arknor]

Since its not relying on the human eye
And what individual users think looks best to them

I'm partially colourblind so what looks right to me certainly isn;t.

Maybe why I'm so interested in getting one to test out