ColorVision Spyder2 Express Win/Mac
ColorVision Spyder2 Express offers photographers, designers, and gamers the best color experience on screen. With just a few steps, you'll get accurate, reliable and consistent color. The quick, easy, and accurate monitor calibration delivers true-to-life flesh tones, well-defined shadows and realistic highlights. It's a must-have for photographers, designers, gamers, and anyone who wants accurate color on screen.
ColorVision Spyder2 Express Win/Mac Accessories
 Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2
The Digital Photography Book
Nikon 7072 Lens Pen Cleaning System
Nikon EN-EL3e Rechargeable Li-Ion Battery for D200, D300, D700 and D80 Digital SLR Cameras
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers,The (Voices That Matter)
SanDisk SDCFX3-004G-A31 4 GB Extreme III CompactFlash Card (Retail Package)
The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters (Voices That Matter)
Nikon ML-L3 Wireless Remote Control for Nikon D40, D40x, D60 & D80 Digital SLR Cameras
ColorVision Spyder2 Express Win/Mac Reviews
I use it for photoshop editing and with lightroom. sun behind me all day. Very good color correction. It niceley corrects the color even with the FL.
When in reality, my MacBook Pro display was simply dull and lifeless. The manufacturer's settings are nothing compared to what this creates. I fixed that in 10 minutes with the Spyder 2. The colors pop, but are not saturated, the contrast is beautiful and the whole thing just seems more lifelike to me. My only problem is that this version doesn't control Gamma and I think that's the main issue with the Dell 2408WFP. We'll see.
I highly recommend this to anyone looking for more lifelike colors, better contrast and more control over the default settings from the manufacturer. My display is now gorgeous. I have owned a lot of really nice monitors. Now, it's a fact that that monitor is very saturated out of the box, but looking at the uncalibrated MacBook display I thought the Dell would have to go back because it was horribly saturated. I can't wait to get the Spyder 2 home to work on my Dell 2408WFP which I have played with and gotten great results with, without this tool. That isn't to say that the Dell was correct, only that the MacBook was muted and not vibrant, or contrasty in any way.
I always thought the default display was the way Apple set it up, so that's the way it should be. In fact, I judged my new Dell 2408WFP monitor against my MacBook Pro display and found the Dell to be very saturated. I use an Apple MacBook Pro and have had Apple monitors and then some. I used the Spyder 2 Express to calibrate my MacBook Pro today and what a difference it makes.
I have used several shareware calibrators and they aren't even close. Now what I see is almost exactly what the lab prints. I wished now I had done this months ago. I recently purchased the spyder2 express to calibrate my ibook monitor. WOW what difference it made.
BE WARNED that this is only set up to do ONE MONITOR PER COMPUTER, and on a laptop it doesn't let you choose, and of course laptop displays are not particularly suited to colour-critical applications. Cheap, quick, and easy to use (on my Mac, and until I get around to calibrating my Windows machines, I'll assume the Windows functionality is at least as good). That said, you absolutely get your money's worth here: This is the same hardware as in ColorVision's professional-level Spyder2 products, they just took some of the professional features out of the software to force pros to buy pro-level while giving everyone else an incredibly good value. There are complicated ways around this, but it is simply not what this product is intended to do, and it is not a particularly well-advertised fact.
Transferring software for this product I found a prompt for a serial number. Reading general customer comments on the web I found a lot of negative press for Data Color help desk and complaint that customers could not get the serial number. However I had long since thrown the packaging. However my experience was very good. I recently changed over from a PC to latest iMAC. Calibration worked great. I got a quick response, you just need to quote them the number on the USB plug.
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