Monitor Calibration - Try before you buy!

bulb66 · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:27

CaseyChaos said:
Arrived this morning. Will be as quick as I can, can't see me needing it for 10days.

So where are we with this? I'm next in line and you've had it for nearly 4 weeks?

J

wonder_lander · 17 Apr 2012 at 12:14

bulb66 said:
So where are we with this? I'm next in line and you've had it for nearly 4 weeks?

J

Hi mate, it's with me to co-ordinate. Unfortunately I've been busy / on holiday.

Will trust you know.

bulb66 · 17 Apr 2012 at 12:50

wonder_lander said:
Hi mate, it's with me to co-ordinate. Unfortunately I've been busy / on holiday.

Will trust you know.

Replied to your mail.

Arrived this today ;-)

Thanks

dirtychinchilla · 9 May 2012 at 22:46

Can we get this moving??

wonder_lander · 10 May 2012 at 08:54

dirtychinchilla said:
Can we get this moving??

Sorry guys, due to personal reasons I've not been able to move this along. Will sort this evening.

dirtychinchilla · 10 May 2012 at 22:10

Cheers

djkav · 10 May 2012 at 22:58

Hey wonder, can you add me to the list again plz?

I'm in St Helens, Lancs if thats near anyone.

I got a new monitor now

wonder_lander · 11 May 2012 at 10:52

djkav said:
Hey wonder, can you add me to the list again plz?

I'm in St Helens, Lancs if thats near anyone.

I got a new monitor now

Added you mate and have trust messaged the next on the list. Sorry for my delays guys.

sHo0sH · 11 May 2012 at 15:34

After just purchasing a new monitor I would absolutely love if I could get added to the bottom of the list, wonderlander - top guy for initiating this.

Ksanti · 11 May 2012 at 15:40

No longer needed for me either, just using someone else's calibration for the moment.

wonder_lander · 11 May 2012 at 19:52

sHo0sH said:
After just purchasing a new monitor I would absolutely love if I could get added to the bottom of the list, wonderlander - top guy for initiating this.

Added

Ksanti said:
No longer needed for me either, just using someone else's calibration for the moment.

Removed, thanks for letting me know.

londonbairn · 12 May 2012 at 12:34

Hi,

Thanks for sorting out, can I be added to the list?

Thanks

Trifid · 18 May 2012 at 12:29

Many thanks for letting me borrow this. It was surprising to see how far out the colours were on my monitors seeing the one calibrated compared to the other non calibrated one (same model)!

wonder_lander · 18 May 2012 at 13:11

rafster said:
Hi,

Thanks for sorting out, can I be added to the list?

Thanks

Added

baron02 · 21 May 2012 at 17:56

okay. You guys can take me out of the list..

wonder_lander · 23 May 2012 at 21:31

baron02 said:
okay. You guys can take me out of the list..

Removed mate.

V F · 24 May 2012 at 17:28

This reminds me of that thing they use to do with books? after reading it they left it on the bench for the next person to read.

Guitarman0 said:
Would be interested to know, do those who have already had it find that it has made a big difference?

Old post but... I thought it did. I always had problems with artifacts getting exposed in Photoshop against certain shades of black until it was saved as png and became quite prominent on other screens. But there's lots of other things that pops on screen now though, I'm now so accustomed to it that it just feels normal. Certain metallic textures really jumped off the screen, all the speckles and pits like as if it was reflecting. Amongst other things.

I don't know what difference it is between Spyder 2 and Spyder 4. I had always skimped on these and relied on the software calibrators. No more.

Trifid said:
Many thanks for letting me borrow this. It was surprising to see how far out the colours were on my monitors seeing the one calibrated compared to the other non calibrated one (same model)!

That was what bugged me the most with my 2405. It had a slight yellow cast. Steam looked like a light brown. The Apple display had a slight pink cast affecting the greys. Now all 4 displays look the same. Perfectly neutral as if you bought it the first day.

Guitarman0 · 24 May 2012 at 21:57

V F said:
This reminds me of that thing they use to do with books? after reading it they left it on the bench for the next person to read.

Old post but... I thought it did. I always had problems with artifacts getting exposed in Photoshop against certain shades of black until it was saved as png and became quite prominent on other screens. But there's lots of other things that pops on screen now though, I'm now so accustomed to it that it just feels normal. Certain metallic textures really jumped off the screen, all the speckles and pits like as if it was reflecting. Amongst other things.

I don't know what difference it is between Spyder 2 and Spyder 4. I had always skimped on these and relied on the software calibrators. No more.

That was what bugged me the most with my 2405. It had a slight yellow cast. Steam looked like a light brown. The Apple display had a slight pink cast affecting the greys. Now all 4 displays look the same. Perfectly neutral as if you bought it the first day.

Thanks for that, really looking forward to my turn now

stoke1863 · 24 May 2012 at 22:00

wow im getting close on the list! Must say thanks again to wonder_lander top work!

V F · 25 May 2012 at 00:07

wonder_lander said:
FAQ:

Does this work with on MACs? - Yes according to the box but I'm not a MAC man so am not sure what versions it dows work with

I was looking around... as I wasn't in the mood to shift through 16 pages to see.

Leo Castillo said:
Hi, I've had this product for three years now and it's served me well. However, it uses PowerPC/Rosetta code for the calibration software, which has been dropped in OS X Lion. I asked Datacolor about it and the said this was a "7 year old product that was designed before new displays like wide gamut and glossy screens came out" and has been "replace by the Spyder3". They may or may not make a solution for Lion but they said it was not easy and they're looking if they can still do it. Will it happen? I don't know.

For now however, at least at the moment this review was made, the Spyder 2 WILL NOT WORK with OS X Lion. Caveat emptor.

Leo

Spyder2express 2.3 Installer for Macintosh
Requirements: Spyder2express sensor

Operating System Support
Mac OS X: 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (SnowLeopard)

Target White Point is 6500K instead of Native.

Rosetta
Installation on Mac OS X 10.6 (SnowLeopard) requires Rosetta to be installed. The installed application (Spyder2Express) is is PowerPC-only, therefore Rosetta is required to run it. Rosetta is an optional install on 10.6 (SnowLeopard). This is not an issue for 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard) systems where Rosetta is automatically installed. OSX 10.7 (Lion) does not support Rosetta, therefore Spyder2 applications will not run under 10.7.