HI Boris -
I can only offer my experience - I had a Huey Pro system and never felt
like it worked well. The colors were just great in Photoshop but they
looked way too dark in other applications (color managed or not) and
printed way too dark as well.
Now, in fairness, I was running this on WIn XP x64 which was a
notoriously buggy OS with a lot of compatibility problems. So maybe the
Huey just did not work well with it. I since moved to a WIn 7 machine
and I just use the visual calibration utility that comes with that. I
installed 32 bit WIn Xp on my old PC (so to run Nikon Scan) and I just
use Calibrize on that. While there is still a difference between
calibrated and non calibrated apps, when I print with profiles they come
out fine.
Your post reminds me that I still have to find a calibration system for
my new PC - I forgot about it since the visual calibration has been
working fine. I probably should try the Huey but to be honest, I don't
have confidence in it.
- MCC
On 8/3/2011 11:10 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
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