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ColorVision Spyder2PRO Studio Review
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Review Summary
Reader Score: 8.60 (out of 10)
Digital photography and home printing are an at all-time high. It has never been more convenient or cheaper to take a photograph and make a print in the comfort of your own home. A frequent source of frustration, however, is the difference between the image that you see on your monitor and the print that you're holding in your hands. An uncalibrated monitor is usually to blame for this (although inaccurate printer profiles are also a cause). Enter the Spyder2 range of monitor calibration devices from ColorVision. First announced at the Photokina 2004 photography show, Spyder2 is said to deliver a five-fold increase in sensitivity when compared to the previous Spyder model, resulting in more accurate ICC profiles and monitor colours. Spyder2 is available in a range of different packages - in this review I look at Spyder2PRO Studio, which works with CRT, LCD and notebook displays on both the Windows and MAC platforms. Spyder2PRO Studio includes more sophisticated and flexible calibration software and other bundled extras that are targeted to the advanced amateur and professional photographer. Last year I reviewed the consumer level ColorPlus package, which drastically improved my uncalibrated monitor, so I was intrigued to see if Spyder2PRO Studio could produce even better results. Read my review to find out.
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Other Reviews For This Model
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| Cameratown |
9.00 |
11-02-04 |
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| As an avid photographer I take pride in perfecting each of my photos before printing them, but no matter what I seem to do, the first print of a session rarely
seems to come out exactly the way I thought it would - compared to the image on the screen. On a notebook computer, the screen never seems to be at the
same angle each time, which, if you have used a notebook, you know has a tremendous effect on the overall screen brightness. The latest Monitor calibration
tools available now support LCD displays, so I thought it was time to check out how they worked. |
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| Northlight-Images |
8.50 |
11-16-04 |
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| A solid, easy to use bit of kit. Just when advances in monitor technology were beginning to show up some of the deficiencies in my old Spyder, along comes one that is both easier to use and more accurate. The grey scale improvements are particularly welcome, given the amount of black and white photography I do.
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| Camera Hobby |
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11-04-04 |
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| It is now conventional wisdom that photographers working in the digital darkroom need to have a color managed workflow to ensure that what they see and edit on the monitor translates to accurate renditions on print.
At the most basic level, a color managed workflow can be a close looped system that has the editor attempt to match a print to what they see on the monitor and then doing manual adjustments until they get it right. As you can imagine, a whole lot of printing and tweaking to get it right, something that doesn't sit too well with me.
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