Like you, I started with the Spyder II Express. But I knew going in that it would only calibrate my main monitor, and that its functions were limited. But at the price it sold for, it was a good buy, and it did a good job. I recently bought a Spyder IV Pro, and it does a great job on both of my monitors, with measures of ambient light and screen brightness in addition to white point, black point and color rendering. You get what you pay for. Some other calibration devices are more highly rated than Datacolor's, but I have no complaints. Mj prints are a precise match for what I see on the monitor, and my clients are always very pleased with the rendering of my photos. In the end, those are the only things that matter,
Paul On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:50 PM, "Larry Colen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Years ago, I bought a datacolor spyder 2 express (or whatever the > inexpensive one was) because there was supposed to be software available > to use it on a Linux box. Datacolor explicitly mentioned that they didn't > want their units used on linux and wouldn't help. I eventually gave up, > and bought an iMac. > > The software for it specifically prevents using it to calibrate multiple > monitors on the same computer. There are workarounds, but they are a pain > in the ass. > > I'm looking to upgrade it to one that will calibrate multiple monitors. > Since datacolor are such dicks about hobbling their hardware to sell more > expensive software, and about linux, I'd rather not buy another product > from them. Not completely opposed, but d on't want to. > > What monitor calibrators do people reccomend? > > > -- > Larry Colen via squirrelmail > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
