Good Calibration hardware + software?

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Im looking to buy a calibrator for my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro and I was wondering which is best for sub £100?

If its hugely worth it then more up and over £100 is ok.

Recommendations? (Don't mind second hand!)

Cheers
 
Could maybe stretch to a Spider 3 Elite second hand for <£100. If not, Spider 2 Express for around £60 new.
 
Concorde Rules said:
Ok...

Hmm how does the Spyder3 Pro stack up? £90 new...

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I got one a few weeks back. I'm not sure if I completely understand what it's doing. It's very consistent in the calibration of my screens and photos look to be realistically rendered, especially skin-tones. Media other than photos look too red and saturated (TV, DVD, etc). On hitting print screen and pasting it into photoshop the colours of the screengrabbed TV don't look red and saturated.

I got a test-print from photobox (not the best I realise) and it's not far out, though warmer than I expected. I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much given the respective dynamic ranges of monitors and prints, and of course photobox may have messed it up. I'm not 100% they recognise Adobe RGB, so I'll get another test print done in sRGB. I'm still reading around trying to find a definitive guide to getting the screen and prints optimal.
 
I've just ordered a Spyder 3 Pro for £86, should be here tomorrow and I'll be setting my screens up asap with it.

No idea what the hell to do with it yet though :)
 
Ok well i've received my thing and tested on my Macbook Pro screen but the 6500K compared to my native (6000k IIRC) looks incredibly blue :/

According to the tester the results for the 6500K are much closer to what they should be than native (dE difference of about .2...)
 
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