Images of items I have purchased.

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Siliconslave said:
lovely bit of kit, don't crash it into your garage / the sea now :)

Looks tiny till you realize thats an iPad air on the controller!
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Hehe I've already flown it in my tiny home and chopped a decent sized chunk out of my foot :p

The weather here is awful so I'll just have to sit here and look at it for a day or two :(
 
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g27 off gumtree, ad was for £130 and the guy offerd me it £110 to come at that moment :D

got it home and noticed Dirt Rally has just been released on early access :).
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You should be locked up mate drinking and driving. tut tut.:p
 
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Picked up a replacement for my Nexus 5...

Or rather, wanted to have a play with Windows Phone, and Windows Phone 10 and the option of getting this for £15 was too tempting to turn down.

Really impressed with how good it is considering the cost and enjoying trying out WP10. There's been a lot of changes since I last used WP8 and it's mostly good.

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Moved from the Sledgehammer (Merkur 39c Slant) which I love
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to my new baby: the feather artist Club DX non folding (I just call it the blood letter at the moment) was to lazy to bother even going down the route of having to maintain a normal cut throat.
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Spyder 5 Pro - My old Eye1 calibrator was becoming a bit long in the tooth and the results were not consistent

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Canon Pro-100S - An absolute beast! I'm not even sure it will fit within the spot I had in mind for it, I have it temporarily set up at the moment. The few test prints I've done so far I've been blown away with, sharpness is incredible and it clearly beats a Photobox print from a Fujifilm Fujicolor crystal archive paper supreme print!

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A few sheets of paper to keep me going!
150 sheets - 6x4
140 sheets - 8x10
40 sheets - A3
50 sheets - A3 (No name stuff)

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Surprised you went with the Spyder and not the i1Display Pro! (once an i1, always an i1 and all that :p)
 
I was put off by the experience I've had with my older Xrite product, I've never been properly happy with it or the software that was provided, maybe it's moved on now but I didn't see any significant features that it offered over the Spyder 5 Pro.
 
Yeah the older ones (not just the i1 but other brands too) used organic filters resulting in filter fade over the years. Models after that point do not have this issue and are sealed units :)

Horses for courses I guess, I never liked the Spyder probes (bought the 3) because all the way up to the 4, they've had shadow detail calibration quirks meaning the Xrite products took the lead in that area. Be interesting to hear if they fixed this in the 5.
 
2StepSteve,

Would the print quality on that printer be suitable for selling professional prints which are framed? Have a few ideas I want to try but mostly text based with some images involved.
 
mrk said:
Yeah the older ones (not just the i1 but other brands too) used organic filters resulting in filter fade over the years. Models after that point do not have this issue and are sealed units :)

Horses for courses I guess, I never liked the Spyder probes (bought the 3) because all the way up to the 4, they've had shadow detail calibration quirks meaning the Xrite products took the lead in that area. Be interesting to hear if they fixed this in the 5.
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They have apparently improved the optical engine by 55%, whatever exactly that means. The device is too new for any detailed reviews as of yet.

I will likely look at the Colormunki Photo (purely for printing calibration) depending upon a few elements with how I get on with the refills that I have on order and paper choices in the future which do not have a ICC profile with the mentioned 3rd party ink.

IndigoGorilla said:
2StepSteve,

Would the print quality on that printer be suitable for selling professional prints which are framed? Have a few ideas I want to try but mostly text based with some images involved.
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I'd say yes and no.

Yes, as it is able to easily beat many of the print providers out there (Will post more about this in the Photo forum). Combined with descent paper, it will print very detailed prints and you will be amazed by the results.

No, as it depends on where and how the customer plans to ultimately store the prints. This is a dye based printer and it will not stand up to the test of time nearly as well as what those professional print services are able to. If you are buying genuine OEM ink and OEM paper, you are looking at (a manufacturer guesstimate) of 40 years until the image will begin to degrade if placed behind glass. If the image isn't behind glass and exposed to the elements so to speak (air and light) you are looking at 10 years. Inside an album, they say 200 years. All of these numbers have obviously come from acculturated aging tests in the lab.

Pigment ink based printers on the other hand, print more resistant prints.

Personally, I would feel a little unsure about selling a printing with the kind of life span that a dye based print has, but it all depends on how the print will be stored. The image won't suddenly disintegrate or self destruct after the quoted time, but it is perhaps a questionable amount of time for people that won't have the ability to reprint from the source (like we have).

How do you feel about selling a product which when framed and placed under glass will start to deteriorate after 40 years? Depending on your product it might not be too much of a problem.
 
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My eyes could glaze over from the lack of blinking due to the hypnotic properties of that...

Good work :D
 
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