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Expiration Dates on Spyders? I was in a photography store looking to buy a monitor calibrator. I saw a used one for $125 that looked promising, but the guy helping me said it was around 4 years old and therefore might need "recalibrating." He said even though it's electronic, when those sensors get old they need to be recalibrated every now and then. Has anyone heard of this before or was he trying to sell me a more expensive product?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
I don't know anything about them except what they're supposed to do, but I thought that was around the price for a new one. But anyway, I found a current MacWorld magazine yesterday that I was looking through, and they featured a calibrator in it. Called a Huey, price was $89. They considered it a good thing. http://www.macworld.com/products/eddy06/Huey.php
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Having owned both the Spyder2Express and the Huey, I returned the Spyder and went with the Huey. To my eye it was more accurate in addition to it adjusting your screen for ambient light every five minutes.
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Has anyone have experience with the Pantone i1 monitor calibrator? I'm not sure mine's working. Here's what I did: I purchased the Pantone i1 monitor calibration kit. I hooked it up and ran the software. It came to a point where it asked me to place the i1 on my screen and to check the Automatic Monitor Calibration checkbox or to perform a manual calibration of my monitor to uncheck it. Well it was grayed out. The software said if the box was grayed out to check the .pdf Well I use a Dell laptop so my monitor wasn't supported. So I should still be able to perform a manual calibration, right? So I go through the process where it flashes a bunch of colors on my screen and in the end I see little difference. It never told me to do anything manual. So I want to test it, right? I right-click on my desktop and choose Properties > Settings > Advanced > GeForce Go 6800 Ultra > Color Correction Here I choose the red channel and increase the Contrast and Gamma. So when I re-run the monitor calibration again it should make it look normal, right? All it did was make it look bluer. The contrast is still all whack and the gamma is still all whack. Am I doing something wrong, missing a step, or do I need to buy a different calibrator?
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Who Me? |
Spyder2Pro got the best overall rating from Rangefinder magazine.
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Suzzy M. Wilson |
I think you can get a calibrater on e-bay, just make sure that it is already calibrated by another calibrator before calibrate you uncalibrated calibrater. Catch my drift
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Suzzy M. Wilson |
Let me try that again, samn wine is hitting me good.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
T-O-R
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Who Me? |
you mean T-O-R T hats O bviously R ong
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
It's calibrator. Looked like she was trying to nail done the spelling. So I was trying to help her out. Or you out. Whichever person you happen to be being at the moment.
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