Re: Just calibrated my monitor.

[Larry Colen]

P. J. Alling wrote:

Well the main reason for this post is to help out anyone else trying to
get new life from older equipment. In this case the Spyder2 Colorimeter.


I will never buy another product from datacolor again. Shortly after 
getting my K100 it became obvious that my displays were way out of whack 
and there was some software, probably a distant ancestor to displaycal 
that worked on Linux with a Spyder 2. The folks at datacolor are 
actively hostile to Linux, because they try to extract more money from 
their customers by selling them upgrades to their software. I did 
eventually end up on a mac, so that I could calibrate my display.




ColorVision doesn't support it for Microsoft OS' beyond Windows XP, but
I hate to discard perfectly good hardware if I can avoid it.


If they can't make a lot more money selling upgrades to their software, 
they'd rather go the obsolecense route. Of course, that means a lot of 
their customers end up with colormunkis instead.




I was able to find a free third party software product that seems to
have done the job. It /only/ took about two hours for the analysis to
run. I don't know if it's very through or very inefficient.

I stayed up to make sure it didn't need any user intervention, but for
the most part it runs automatically.

Anyway if you're interested in giving new life to an old Colorimeter,
The product is called DisplayCAL.

It can be a little tricky and obtuse to initially install, and takes a
long time to profile a monitor, but hey it's free and seems to work. It
also supports a wide range of colorimeters, not just the Spyder2.

Now I'm off to bed, before I do something stupid and try to soft proof
and print an image.


Congratulations.






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Re: Just calibrated my monitor.

[Paul in MKE]

With PJ's discovery of this app, maybe someone can get some use out of 
this...I have a Spyder2 gathering dust on the shelf that someone can 
have for the cost of shipping.  Ten bucks will get you Priority Mail to 
anyone in the lower 48.  Contact me off list if interested.


-p


On 1/16/2017 1:39 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Well the main reason for this post is to help out anyone else trying 
to get new life from older equipment.  In this case the Spyder2 
Colorimeter.


ColorVision doesn't support it for Microsoft OS' beyond Windows XP, 
but I hate to discard perfectly good hardware if I can avoid it.


I was able to find a free third party software product that seems to 
have done the job.  It /only/ took about two hours for the analysis to 
run.   I don't know if it's very through or very inefficient.


I stayed up to make sure it didn't need any user intervention, but for 
the most part it runs automatically.


Anyway if you're interested in giving new life to an old Colorimeter, 
The product is called DisplayCAL.


It can be a little tricky and obtuse to initially install, and takes a 
long time to profile a monitor, but hey it's free and seems to work.  
It also supports a wide range of colorimeters, not just the Spyder2.


Now I'm off to bed, before I do something stupid and try to soft proof 
and print an image.





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Re: Just calibrated my monitor.

[Toine]

A very good find. My spyder didn't see any use in many many years.
Today it's back online and calibrated my old Dell monitor. Next is an
old HP notebook with very bad colors out of the box.

Thanks!
Toine

On 16 January 2017 at 08:39, P. J. Alling  wrote:
> Well the main reason for this post is to help out anyone else trying to get
> new life from older equipment.  In this case the Spyder2 Colorimeter.
>
> ColorVision doesn't support it for Microsoft OS' beyond Windows XP, but I
> hate to discard perfectly good hardware if I can avoid it.
>
> I was able to find a free third party software product that seems to have
> done the job.  It /only/ took about two hours for the analysis to run.   I
> don't know if it's very through or very inefficient.
>
> I stayed up to make sure it didn't need any user intervention, but for the
> most part it runs automatically.
>
> Anyway if you're interested in giving new life to an old Colorimeter, The
> product is called DisplayCAL.
>
> It can be a little tricky and obtuse to initially install, and takes a long
> time to profile a monitor, but hey it's free and seems to work.  It also
> supports a wide range of colorimeters, not just the Spyder2.
>
> Now I'm off to bed, before I do something stupid and try to soft proof and
> print an image.
>
>
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Just calibrated my monitor.

[P. J. Alling]

Well the main reason for this post is to help out anyone else trying to 
get new life from older equipment.  In this case the Spyder2 Colorimeter.


ColorVision doesn't support it for Microsoft OS' beyond Windows XP, but 
I hate to discard perfectly good hardware if I can avoid it.


I was able to find a free third party software product that seems to 
have done the job.  It /only/ took about two hours for the analysis to 
run.   I don't know if it's very through or very inefficient.


I stayed up to make sure it didn't need any user intervention, but for 
the most part it runs automatically.


Anyway if you're interested in giving new life to an old Colorimeter, 
The product is called DisplayCAL.


It can be a little tricky and obtuse to initially install, and takes a 
long time to profile a monitor, but hey it's free and seems to work.  It 
also supports a wide range of colorimeters, not just the Spyder2.


Now I'm off to bed, before I do something stupid and try to soft proof 
and print an image.



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