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Display Calibration for Professional Photographers and Studios
From capturing images to digital editing and printing your work, you can rely on consistent, accurate colour throughout your studio and digital workflow with Spyder3Elite. Designed for the way photographers work, Spyder3Elite is the next generation in calibration accuracy, precision and speed, allowing you to create profiles to your specifications and bring a new level of colour control to your work.
System Requirements
From capturing images to digital editing and printing your work, you can rely on consistent, accurate colour throughout your studio and digital workflow with Spyder3Elite. Designed for the way photographers work, Spyder3Elite is the next generation in calibration accuracy, precision and speed, allowing you to create profiles to your specifications and bring a new level of colour control to your work.
System Requirements
- Windows XP 32/64, Windows Vista 32/64, Windows 7 32/64
- Mac OS X (10.4 or later)
- Colour monitor with at least 1024x768 resolution
- 24-bit video card
- USB port
Product Description
Datacolor Spyder 3 Elite
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
66 of 67 people found the following review helpful
This is not just a tool for photographers, anybody who uses a computer to produce digital works should consider using one. I design and build websites and software, the colours I see on my screen are not neseceraly what can be seen on the end users, by using the Spyder to calibrate my monitor I can work in the knowledge that atleast what I see is what should be seen on another machine if it were also calibrated.
The elite version of the Spyder3 uses the same colorimeter as the Pro version but has an enhanced version of the softawre allowing mulitple monitors to be calibrated to the same target providing a consistant enviroment for a team. If you need more than just one machine to be calibrated then chose this version otherwise the pro (Spyder 3 Pro (PC/Mac)) is just as good for a little less money.
The solution itself consists of some software and a usb colorimeter, the colorimeter is used to measure the output of the screen. The software then can create a custom colour profile for your display. The whole process can take between 10 and 30 minuites dependent upon your pc.
The colorimeter can be left plugged in sitting in a desktop cradle and will continually moniter the ambient light levels and provide an alert if you need to recalibrate your display.
Overall a very usefull addition for anybody working with digital images.
The elite version of the Spyder3 uses the same colorimeter as the Pro version but has an enhanced version of the softawre allowing mulitple monitors to be calibrated to the same target providing a consistant enviroment for a team. If you need more than just one machine to be calibrated then chose this version otherwise the pro (Spyder 3 Pro (PC/Mac)) is just as good for a little less money.
The solution itself consists of some software and a usb colorimeter, the colorimeter is used to measure the output of the screen. The software then can create a custom colour profile for your display. The whole process can take between 10 and 30 minuites dependent upon your pc.
The colorimeter can be left plugged in sitting in a desktop cradle and will continually moniter the ambient light levels and provide an alert if you need to recalibrate your display.
Overall a very usefull addition for anybody working with digital images.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By J. S. Lodge
Purchased my Spyder 3 after photos on my laptop where not printing as they where viewed on the screen. Easily installed software guides you through the screen calibration and in minutes the screen is calibrated. I had some issues with the picture once calibrated so contacted Datacolor through their website. I must say that the technical support is fantastic, e-mailing me back the next day with the instructions of what I wanted and asking for me to contact them if this did not work. It did and a few days later I again had an e-mail from Datacolor asking if everything is okay.
Good product, easy to use, good support and compared to the other screen calibrators not to badly priced.
Good product, easy to use, good support and compared to the other screen calibrators not to badly priced.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
By Ricky Cafe
This is an incredible tool. I have a multi monitor set up and for the first time I am able to get seamless colour transition between the screens. As a bonus, an older, but very high quality screen that I had which was tending to be rather yellow and proving very difficult to obtain a colour balance has now been accurately profiled.
Straightforward and simple to use, it literally 'does what it says on the box'
An absolute "must have" for anyone involved in digital imaging.
Straightforward and simple to use, it literally 'does what it says on the box'
An absolute "must have" for anyone involved in digital imaging.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Image is much better with correct colors and contrast!
After calibrating my monitor with this product, I was amazed how wrongly my pictures were displayed before. This product works very well on my Dell 2408wfp. Read more
Published 4 months ago by R. Hunt
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great colour management product
I got the Spyder just before Christmas as part of the studio package, which also includes a strip reader for printer profiling. Read more
Published 16 months ago by S. Hastings
5.0 out of 5 stars
Spyder 3 Elite
Very happy, great product easy to use. Allowed me to easily set up a studio match between several computers and the recalibrations are accurate and fast. Read more
Published 18 months ago by M. Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars
Complex but good
The Spyder is a rather complex device,but once I got to grips with its operation it has done a first class job of calibrating my displays. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Terence J. Pearce
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hit and miss.
I bought this to calibrate my two work monitors, and more importantly, to get them to look the same as possible. It worked really well on one of them. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Sunny Daze
3.0 out of 5 stars
Tinting issues
Currently I would not recommend the Spyder3. I am experienceing tinting issues. I've returned the Spyder3 for a check, but they said it was OK. So I guess it's a software issue.
Published 21 months ago by M. Andersen
3.0 out of 5 stars
Frustrating problems, but I've got there in the end...
Well I was nearly going to return this.
For a start, the documentation says it doesn't work on multi-head monitors, which is why I bought it. Read more
For a start, the documentation says it doesn't work on multi-head monitors, which is why I bought it. Read more
Published 22 months ago by grb
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good value for money but with a flaw
I have one of these, a top spec NVIDIA graphics card and a Dell U2711 monitor capable of displaying most of Adobe RGB. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2010 by C. Wesson
5.0 out of 5 stars
standardises screen colour display
Previously used another software system which was for use on a single pc at a time which gave differing results on different screens. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2010 by knitwear user
5.0 out of 5 stars
Spyder 3 Elite
It's my first spyder so cannot compare to other models but all I can say is that this one works it's magic. Read more
Published on 19 April 2010 by Jaroslaw Kardas
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