You talk about brightness, which is really a function of the target brightness for calibration maybe you need to use, e.g., 100 cd/m^2 instead of 140 cd/m^2, or whatever. As long as the colorimeter and its associated hardware build a reasonably accurate ICC profile for your monitor, and you use that profile, your images should soft-proof accurately in any software that soft-proofs correctly. Third, whether you can soft-proof really should not have anything to do with which colorimeter (or associated software) you get. I don't know to what extent that is currently true, or to what extent it ever was based on a really thorough and scientific analysis across the entire model lines and several samples of each model. Second, there is some evidence that historically X-Rite colorimeters were substantially more accurate than Datacolor colorimeters. That may be a total non-issue for you, but at least at times, some of the more basic colorimeters have not worked with some of the more advanced monitors. but if I were getting, or you have, a more advanced monitor, then I'd get X-Rite i1Display Pro Plus (i.e., not the discontinued non-Plus model) colorimeter, which is $299 in the U.S.įirst, for any colorimeter purchase, first I suggest verifying whether it will work with both your current monitor(s) and any monitor(s) you expect to get in the next year or two. Short answer: were I buying a new colorimeter today, I'd buy an X-Rite i1Display Studio, which is the new version of my current X-Rite ColorMunki Display, and which costs $149 in the U.S. It is not for work, just for hobby and I am not making any money from it. Don't know what I can get in terms of making the prints closer to what I see from my monitor for the extra $70 (or paying 60% more for that feature). I don't know how effect is the soft proofing. I have always been having problems with the color and brightness of the prints for online labs. The feature that I am interested in the elite is the print soft proofing. The hardware is the same, but the software is different. The Xrite is a lot more expensive than the Spyders after the discount.Īlso, whether to get the pro version or the elite version. I am debating whether to upgrade to SpyderX with the good discount or I should get a Xrite. I have heard that the Xrite is very good and it is more or less the industrial standard. The pro version is CAN$115 and the Elite is CAN$184. Currently, Datacolor is putting its SpyderX on sale.
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