When I bought my K100Ds my home computer was a Linux box and the only calibration device that seemed to have any support for Linux was Spyder, so I bought a Spyder II. The software to use the spyder was not written by the folks who make it, I was never able to get it to work, and the folks who sell the spyder are actively hostile to people who use Linux.
It turns out that they charge significantly more for software upgrades to use their hardware, and that's a big part of their business model: a hardware company that makes money off the software, so unless you buy the expensive software, you're missing out on things that could make your hardware easier to use. I understand their business model, as a customer I don't like it. If I want to calibrate both screens on my system using the lower end software I have to individually set each screen as the primary screen and run the calibration program. Other than that, the spyder II was relatively inexpensive and seems to work well enough. On Aug 3, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Dear All: > > What model(s) of color-calibration devices (colorimeters) for computer > displays would you recommend? (For Windows - XP and Win7, - if that matters) > I am looking for something that would be reasonable - both in > functionality (quality, convenience of use) and price. > > I heard mostly about Spyder. But then even Spyder seems to have > several variations (Datacolor DC S3P100 Spyder 3 Pro, Datacolor DC > S3EL100 Spyder 3 Elite, Datacolor DC S3X100 Spyder 3 Express). > I didn't have a chance to figure out which features are really helpful, > and which are just marketing ploy: > http://spyder.datacolor.com/s3compare.php > > Does the Pro version automatically adjust calibration based on the > ambient light in real time, or only during the calibration? > Also, - how does the "multiple display calibration" work? Does anybody > know? > > I think I am ready to "bite the bullet", - as the monitors I thought > were close to calibrated are actually not. > > Thank you in advance, > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
