spyder2 express (s2e100)

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shankle

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This calibrator is pretty cheap and I wonder if it is a toy.
Software for it is V.2.3.5.
Company is "Calibration - Direct) out of Utah.
Cost is $57 + shipping (on sale till June 5th).

Hate to buy anything sight unseen.
Sure could use some guidance.
Thanks
 
Spyder 3 is supposed to be used for wide gamut hi color displays although it still doesnt seem to take care of the color oversaturation problem.
 
Spyder2 is supposedly very usable for most monitor types:
Spyder2express uses an earlier generation of Spyder technology. It is excellent for calibrating CRTs and typical LCD displays. For laptops with very narrow viewing angles, LCDs with gloss finishes, and new LCD technologies such as LED backlight and Wide Gamut displays, we recommend Spyder3-based products, such as Spyder3Pro.
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From: http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s2e.php

I went with the Spyder3 Pro, BTW :)
 
Ok, this has to be the world's dumbest question BUT.
Why should I spend money for hardware when there are free computer programs that calibrate your monitor? Other than they are full of viruses, how can they work without the hardware?
As you can see I'm very confused.
 
Hardware calibrators are for color critcal work such as printing, photo editing, or web design. If you don't perform one of those functions, you have no need for hardware calibration, unless you are just anal about having acurate color.
 
Spyder 2 is for sRGB only ("non Wide Gamut").
So people are selling thouse cheaply on eBay.
 
shankle said:
Ok, this has to be the world's dumbest question BUT.
Why should I spend money for hardware when there are free computer programs that calibrate your monitor? Other than they are full of viruses, how can they work without the hardware?
As you can see I'm very confused.
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Software calibration is more of a subjective thing. What a hardware calibration tool does is use a sensor to measure exactly the colour response, saturation and everything of the display in question, and feed this information back into the software which then composes a profile for a monitor to get those values as close to optimal as possible.
 
Elledan said:
Software calibration is more of a subjective thing. What a hardware calibration tool does is use a sensor to measure exactly the colour response, saturation and everything of the display in question, and feed this information back into the software which then composes a profile for a monitor to get those values as close to optimal as possible.
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Well, sometimes subjective settings can be more pleasant than an objective calibration. Especially when the calibrator does not take the surround light conditions into account and it is done rarely.
 
Biges said:
Well, sometimes subjective settings can be more pleasant than an objective calibration. Especially when the calibrator does not take the surround light conditions into account and it is done rarely.
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Any proper hardware calibration tool will take environmental lighting in account, and even do this continuously if desired.
 
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