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Excellent color calibrator hardware and software at a reasonable price.

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024

I new I'd have a problem when I bought a new computer with Windows 11. My old Dell Optiplex was well beyond its useful like but my photography workflow requires a calibrated monitor. My 15 year old work horse GretagMcbeth iOne Professional system does not work with Windows 11 (so much for Microsoft's claim of backward compatibility with prior Windows OS).

This colorimeter/sensor/calibrator is significantly easier to use than my old one. It is much more compact. I am very pleased with the ease of installation, ICC profile creation and ease of application to the NVidia graphics card my new computer uses.

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Frank S. Ryan

Errors without support … Horrible Experience

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2023

The principles are straight forward: Compare what RGB values should be seen and what RGB values are actually seen.

Instead, you get 999 error codes with no resolution, requests to submit tickets, and the inability of an optical sensor and system to acquire a white point… I’m in a dark room, a new sensor, and a whole lot of unreconcilable error messages and a pathetic loop of the same results over and over again.

This should not be hard. What color and brightness should I see, what do I see, what adjustments are necessary to get a match.

A waste of money, honestly. I’ll go with my eyes … they’re much cheaper. And I better get my money back for such a horrible product.

Good luck to anyone who buys this garbage.
Frank

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Tomas

Excellent color calibrator hardware and software at a reasonable price.

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024

Model: SXE200Verified Purchase

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Manzur F.

A must have for Photographers!

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024

Model: SXE100Verified Purchase

This is a must have products for photographers and video professionals who needs color-perfect output. This device works like a charm and calibrates the monitor so you know how the output of your work will be. I tried it on my ASUS PA329C, which came factory calibrated. Turns out the monitor is properly calibrated except I need to lower the brightness to 30. Once I did that, it reached perfect calibration. A great device, and highly recommended for photo / video professionals.

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William B.

Will calibrate only ONE of your multiple monitors

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024

Model: SXP100Verified Purchase

Maybe I miss that in the description. If you use multiple monitors, you need to pick the one that the color matters for apparently. That may be generally OK, but if the monitors are different make, model, size, or age, then pick the one you use to edit photos, because that's the profile both or all of your monitors will get. I didn't realize that until I tried to move the spyder to a second screen, and it popped back to the original, which fortunately is the on where my photos are when being edited. The other screens or OK, but one doesn't have the power to be as bright as the others (and that wouldn't change anyway).

Otherwise, if you use only one monitor, for you this could be a five star. It's fast and easy, and as far as I can tell, pretty accurate.

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Gail C.

AMAZON AGGREGATES PRO AND ELITE REVIEWS

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2022

Model: SXE100Verified Purchase

Unless a reviewer specifies, you can't tell if a review is for Elite or Pro.. This review is for both.

I've been using colorimeters since CRT days, with good results. My discontinued X-rite Eye-One worked fine until I installed Windows 11. After that the software would always report that there was no profile for either monitor.

I recently purchased the cheaper Pro version, which didn't work for me at all. When calibration completed, the monitor would shift to a green tint. Both monitors did the same thing. The old X-rite could do better job with it's outdated software.

Then they went on sale. The Elite was now the same price that I paid for the Pro. So, I switched with Amazon, hoping fancy software would make a difference. Devices are both the same Spyder X. I used the same procedure previously used with the Pro software and calibration was perfect on the 1st try. I didn't use any of the extended Elite feature set. I expected to be able to make a software comparison, but now suspect that my 1st Spyder X was probably defective.

Addendum: Now that I've had the Elite for a few days, I can see that the Elite software is necessary to make 2 different monitor types look exactly the same.

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Juan

Facil de utilizar

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024

Model: SXE100Verified Purchase

Creía que no haría mucha diferencia al trabajar con fotos, pero una vez instalado y calibrado el monitor
Wow !! totalmente diferente mas claro mejores colores, olvidate de calibrar a mano y al tanteo, necesitas un calibrador como este y listo

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David

Easy to use

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2024

Model: SXE200Verified Purchase

I use it to calibrate my computer screens for printing.

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Frank S. Ryan

Errors without support … Horrible Experience

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2023

Model: SXE100Verified Purchase

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KF Mush

Silly that a $200 piece of hardware needs a software key...

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2023

Model: SXE100Verified Purchase

It does what a color meter should and does it well. I especially like that I can leave it on my desk and let it auto adjust throughout changing lighting conditions; that's a really welcome innoavtion for this kind of product (don't know when it happened, but when I was in art school, color calibrators didn't do that and I always thought they should be able to; it was always a one-and-done thing and if you were doing very sensitive color work, you did it in a dark room with no ambient light.

Anyway... The software is lacking in usability. It works, but it's slow and a little cumbersome. It was frustrating for me to go through and manually calibrate each monitor, thinking that the calibrations would be used to sync all three, but just make adjustments, only to have to entirely redo all the calibrations and then sync them. It's an example of somewhere they could be a little more clear about what does what. Not a big deal, but it did eat an entire afternoon to get comfortable with it--the actual calibration process is fairly slow.

My biggest gripe is that fact that I need a software key for when I just bought what is essentially a $200 **hardware** key. If I didn't own your expensive device, I wouldn't even need this software... what the hell? This is the kind of thing that is usually done to prevent people from buying and selling the product as used, but there's no other verification, other than to link it to an email, but if that's already been done...? All you have to do is tell the person you sell it to what the key is. If they forget, they have to go to you rather than Spyder, but whatever. I don't think that's Spyder's intention, necessarily (please don't get any ideas!), but rather just some kind of delusion from the software engineer. It's still completely unnecessary and you may not think it matters, but it caused me problems.

Yeah, they include one in the box, but you have to link it to an email. And after a year of forgetting the key was in the box, the box got recycled in a cleaning phase. But blessed be! The good lords at Spyder have blessed me with an alternative: I can send a request to have the key that was registered to my email sent to my email! Or can I...

It was Friday night when I first requested my activation key. They tell me my key has been sent right away! Not in my inbox. Not in spam. Not in any of Google's auto categories. Wait until Saturday night, still no sign of the email, so I request it again. Again, I look and cannot find it. I must wait. And wait is what I do. Sunday morning, no sign. I send the request again. And again 2 more times that day. No answer. They must have a human manually verify these requests, I ponder. It is the weekend; maybe I'll have better luck Monday. Monday morning. Request sent. No response. All day I wait and all night. 10 PM monday night. I try to request the key One. More. Time. before ultimately giving up. 2 seconds later, the key is in my inbox.

What the hell. Please remove the need for an activation key. It is absolutely silly.

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RDevault

It does work but not what I could call easy to set up.

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024

Model: SXP100Verified Purchase

It does work but not what I could call easy to set up. My biggest issue was that I received a used product. So I was temped to return it but decided to just give it a try since I had already waited two weeks and the important parts appeared to be okay. It worked and I would recommend it .....just not happy with Amazon sending me a used product. !( Yes I realize that has nothing to do with the product)

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"germanium20"

Hardware is great. Software not so much

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2024

Model: SXP100Verified Purchase

Fortunately I have software provided by my monitor provider that is compatible with this colorimeter.

The basic software that came with it only advantage is that it was fast. You got to see very quickly how bad the calibrations it provided were.

On the other hand LG provided program to hardware calibrate my monitor that gave excellent results though that program is very much slower.

Do your self a favor if you get this colorimeter, there is a free program out there that will work with any monitor that is vastly more accurate & is compatible with this colorimeter. It also is more feature rich.

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