Calibrize vs Spyder elite 3 vs windows 7 calibrate color

[John Rofrano]

[Shawn Bossick] “What about window’s 7, it has the calibrate color function IS IT JUST AS GOOD ? as the others ?”

There is a fundamental flaw in all “software only” calibration and it originates on either side of your nose! If you think that your eyes can accurately detect 255 shades of gray then by all means use software calibration.

For everyone else… hardware calibration is the only accurate way to calibrate your monitors. Once you’ve calibrated them with a Spyder 3 Elite, you will quickly realize that you’ve been fooling yourself thinking that you didn’t need one. So no… windows calibration is not as good as using a colorimeter.

Of course, if you just do this for a hobby where close enough is good enough, then use anything you want. Anything is better than not calibrating at all, but nothing is better than a hardware colorimeter like the Spyder 3.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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[Jeff Schroeder]

John is 100%, absolutely right. I use the X-rite Eye-one and since I have properly calibrated all the monitors I use to make content for a project the final product looks great. If you use 2 or more computers with 4 or more monitors, especially different brands, then I highly recommend monitor calibration using a sensor device to improve your product.

Jeff

http://www.narrowroadmedia.com

[Shawn Bossick]

GUYS THANKS for the great advice I’M SOLD!

[Stephen Mann]

Your eyes are the absolutely WORST color-determining devices on the planet. Your brain is the culprit. If you are looking at a white dress, you brain will *make* it white, whereas a colorimeter will know that it’s really a pale blue.

(This is also why you can *never* use the LCD monitor on your camera for accurate color determinations.)

I decided to get the Color Munki. It’s a bit more money than the others mentioned in this thread, but it also profiles my printers.

Note, while it’s impossible to calibrate consumer LCD monitors to the NTSC gamut*, the colorimeters come close [enough].

*
Black is an illusion – look at your black screen in the dark – it’s really gray.
White depends entirely on the color of the backlight.
Contrast is dependent on the viewing angle.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Mark Prebonich]

Take a look at the following site.

https://consumer.spectracal.com/collections/calpc

I use both a ColorMunki and an Eye-One Display LT profiled off the ColorMunki. I am able to achieve excellent results with the CalPC program and these meters. Here is what I was able to accomplish with grayscale.

-Mark