Comments on: Spyder3Express Monitor Color Calibration Device

By: Billy May

Billy May — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:56:23 +0000

Wow. first commenter is right, you really don’t know what you’re doing. On top of that, you’re getting the same results i got with this shoddy product. EVERYONE, take a look at the spiral staircase on the calibrated view, his newly crushed blacks cause the bottom 4 stairs to DISAPPEAR.

By: Edward Allen

Edward Allen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:51:08 +0000

I’ve just bought this and yes it works well but it’s a pain that it only does ONE monitor! I contacted their tech support but no workarounds (just buy the next one up!)

you mention how you applied it via Windows; How so? I could at least try it!

By: Kristofer Brozio

Kristofer Brozio — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:30:43 +0000

Hey.. it worked for me.. I’m happy with it!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:10:11 +0000

“Now running three monitors I was hoping I could calibrate all of them individually, but I couldn’t do it. I could however load the color profile into my other monitors via Windows and essentially they all look the same now”

Hi,
Wow, you must have been really lucky because what you did really does not make sense at all. If all three monitors would have been the same make and model it could have made sense even though you still would have to expect them to be different and thus need separate ICC-files. Using a hardware calibrator to generate an ICC on one monitor and then taking that file and applying it to another monitor of another model, is so far from what one is supposed to be doing with a hardware calibrator that I must question whether this review is reliable at all. Do you understand what kind of crime you committed on colour by taking the ICC from one model to another? You caould just as much have downloaded any random ICC from the web and applied it.