Spyder - Monitor Calibrator for Graphic Designers, Photographers, and Content Creators, Shows You True Colors, Works on OLED Monitors & LED Screens, Easy-to-Use Color Calibration Tool

Finally I have a simple, accurate and easy to use monitor calibration tool! I've tried the other popular brand the i1 Studio, now owned by Calibrite (previously X-Rite) and found it was inconsistent due to having too many features in one unit. The calibration process was lengthy, complicated and ambiguous, but worst of all the software backward compatibility when X-Rite handed its consumer products to Calibrite resulted in buggy operation. The attempt to force an upgrade to new product was apparent.The Datacolor Spyder, on the other hand is a joy to use, much faster and color/contrast/brightness are all very accurate! After calibrating two side-by-side monitors, the images are almost perfectly identical, and certainly when the are printed out there will be no difference at all. Indeed, I may end up purchasing the Datacolor Print calibrating product, just to simplify and improve printing, which given the price of ink and paper, should pay for itself many times over. All in all, I'm very satisfied with the Spyder product, and the price is very affordable as well.

This works great to calibrate my Eizo monitor. Very easy to use (once I downloaded the correct software—that could have been easier as the QR code did not steer me to the SW for my Spyder X).

DataColor seems to have NO CUSTOMER SUPPORT. I received this item, downloaded the software from datacolor web site and installed it, with no problems. Then I ran it and after calibrating my monitor it generated an error and would not save the results.I went to the datacolor web site, clicked on support, and entered my data and problem. THEN IT SENT ME TO A 3er PARTY TECH SUPPORT COMPANY, I HAD TO PUT IN A CREDIT CARD AND ALL OF MY PERSONAL INFORMATION AND WAS CHARGED $5. THIS COMPANY TRIED BUT COULD NOT FIX THE PROBLEM AND TOLD ME I HAD TO GO BACK TO DATACOLOR. I DID AND THEY AGAIN SENT ME BACK TO THE 3er PARTY SUPPORT WEB SITE! AND IT WANTED TO START ALL OVER AGAIN. ENDLESS LOOP AND NO WAY TO GET OUT OF IT!Now I find that this also signed me up for an account that cost $55 per month! And you do not know this is happening! The company DataColor send you to is JustAnswer.FTC Sues JustAnswer for Deceiving Consumers into Enrolling in a Costly Recurring Monthly SubscriptionAgency alleges question-and-answer service falsely claims consumers can get access to experts for a small one-time fee when in reality JustAnswer actually signs every consumer up for a recurring subscription

Easy to use and quick. The only issue I have is not unit specific but one of the two monitors doesn't have a kelvin setting and the contrast levels can't be set well. As such one of the two monitors has flat and overly dull colors. I don't think this is a problem with datacolor though.

If you have multiple monitors, spring for Pro to get Color Match. You can upgrade to Pro software via datacolor's website as the only difference is the software, but you wind up spend a tad more than just buying Pro to begin with.

I'm not an expert, just a hobbyist photographer. I have not used other similar tools. What I can say about this thing is that it does something, and it's probably good, via it's "Monitor Calibration" process. You hold the device up to your monitor screen and start a process that runs through a bunch of colors and saturations etc, and it saves out a calibration file. On my MacBook with an external Samsung monitor, it did make some minor difference in what I see, but not life-changing; probably my monitor started off pretty good. There's also a "Monitor Quality Analysis" feature that refuses to work for me, and the "help" for it I've found on the Internet makes it seem like a science project of dubious value, so that's done me no good but I probably don't care. Overall the software does not appear to have been refined very much; it's quirky and a little weird.

Easy to use, except you have to download the instructions.

Very easy to setup and use but you must know what model monitor you have because you’ll likely need to look up the specs. This will allow the device to calibrate your monitor properly. Very neat tool for photo editing. If you are looking to edit your photos professionally, you MUST have a tool to calibrate your monitors.

I replaced an old Spyder device that was USB-A and starting to get slightly glitchy. The new one works well and is faster as well. If you print your photos, some sort of monitor calibration device is a must and this is a basic but good one. Recommended.

私のデスクトップがまだ、Windows10なので対応出来るカラーマネージメントツールが少なくて困ってました。折角、購入したeizoのマネージメントツールも11での対応なのでプリンターの色が合わなくて泣くような思いの毎日だったのが今回、購入したSPYDER2024年度版でマネージメントしたら、かなり色がマッチングして、プリントも楽になりました。これから、写真活動を続けるのですが！プリントが楽しくなります。

C'est un appareil indispensable pour calibrer son écran pour pouvoir être certain d'avoir des vraies couleurs.L'utilisation est enfantine, il suffit de télécharger le programme indiqué et se laisser guider.En quelques instants on découvre les paramètres à modifier sur son écran tels que la luminosité et les couleurs.Enfin la sauvegarde d'un profil en fin de réglage permet de facilement basculer entre plusieurs paramètres d'affichage selon les souhaits.

Snel geleverd in prima staat en het apparaat voldoet zeer naar wens om een monitor aangesloten op de pc te kalibreren.

Excellent piece of kit, easy to set up, I now have my monitor correctly calibrated