Colour calibration

mrk

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mrk

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Up until now I've been faithful to my 2007WFP colour reproduction but I now need all monitors in the house to display colours accurately as I'm RDPing to and from each machine respectively.

I've looked at Pantone Huey on eBay and also the Colorvision Spyder2 Express, both are from US based sellers and after conversion the Huey is £45 inc postage and the Spyder2 a little bit more.
Edit* I've actually found them on Google Products in the £50 region!

I'm just wondering does anyone have any experience with the Pantone Huey ? which one to go for is a bit of a choice here!

Pantone Huey:
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Colorvision Spyder 2 Express:
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Going by the info in those reviews I'm going to buy the SPyder2 Express since the hardware itself is the same as the Pro unit and has the ability to use the pro version of the software by upgrading if needed down the line.

Awesome!
 
is the spyder3 much more expensive? would be interesting to know! I don't need fancypants features, just need a colour profile that's accurate lol :p

I notice in your review you used the 2405FPW which is a VA based panel, I am assuming the IPS 2007WFP should gather better results after calibration than observed by the 2405 ?
 
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I went for the Gretag Eye-one, it seems to be better thought of generally than the Spyder or Huey.
 
mrk said:
is the spyder3 much more expensive? would be interesting to know! I don't need fancypants features, just need a colour profile that's accurate lol :p

I notice in your review you used the 2405FPW which is a VA based panel, I am assuming the IPS 2007WFP should gather better results after calibration than observed by the 2405 ?
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it's all relative really. If you look, I used the 2405FPW as a control here, and have calibrated it with the Spyder2Express, huey Pro, Gretag Eye-One display 2, LaCie Blue Eye Pro and all have differing results. You wouldn't get any better results just by changing the screen if you compare before and after measurements (if you see what i mean - ie the relative correction would still be similar).
 
dod said:
I went for the Gretag Eye-one, it seems to be better thought of generally than the Spyder or Huey.
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agreed, i think it's a better hardware device, and their software package is also very good at achieving some excellent results. only thing lacking is a reporting feature with advanced detail like LaCie's software does
 
I went for the Spyder in the end as I can get the pro software later down the line if needs be and I'm most familiar with Spyder too! the shop I saw it for £52 appears to be out of stock though so am waiting until it's listed again!
 
mrk, thanks for the reply. I'll see where I can see the spyder2. I think I've found some linux software which should let me use the spyder2 express for monitor calibration.

regards
 
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