Do you own a color calibrator? Are they worth it?

yes but for an IPS monitor specifically designed to be calibrated, and with a colorspace larger than shit tier RGB. color accuracy trades response time it seems.

If you make money doing color sensitive work on your monitors, yes it's worth it. It will pay for itself. If you are a hobbyist that gives a fuck and does their absolute best to excel in the photos and videos you take and edit, yes it is worth it.

I did exactly this on my T420 with a ColorMunki Display and DisplayCAL. It definitely took away the blue tint (although the panel itself is still pretty crappy)

Which calibrator company do you work for? Out with it!

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Yes, it will shift to the warmer (yellow) side when properly calibrated.

Aren’t they like $500? Why would anyone other than sometime doing professional work buy one? You can manually change color levels anyway.

Not with our black friday sale goy.

i wonder who was behind this post AND THE SAME ONE WITH THE SAME PICTURE 2 days ago.

I got my colormunki display for like $130 CAD iirc. Good enough to make my (good) TN look close to my IPS, can't complain.

op of last thread here. sent my spyder 5 back. only good for measuring nits and color temp. any colorcalibration was useless and the icc profile you can create with displayCal or the spyder software will have to be forced with them aswell.

so what does that mean exactly? you will have to keep them running in your taskbar at all times. windows native support for icc profiles is so fucking pathetic. and I am no big fan of botnets that have to start on every startup.

are these not firmware locked to a limited amount of usages/displays?

>i wonder who was behind this post AND THE SAME ONE WITH THE SAME PICTURE 2 days ago

that was me, but I guess some retard saw it doing well so now he recreated the same thread for personal attention

no. you there are 3 versions of the spyder 5,but the devices hardware is the same. you can just get the cheapest one and then use the free program that is called DisplayCal to adjust your brightness and color temp. like already said, the ICC profiles were useless and the color calibration you can do manually was completely missleading

Make sure to use argyllcms and displaycal if you have one.

oh my bad tripsotruth :(
it was a good thread for what it was, ur answer is much more reasonable

np. this is all me
I hope that is enough feedback for you guys. I do NOT recommend buying one.

Only if you've got an expensive TV, or a spectraview monitor.

You could just use color profile keeper, same thing, not botnet

sorry but when buying a colorimeter for 100 bucks wasn't expecting to use a piece of software to force the ICC profile when it should have been forced by windows automatically. and as usually, even watching any videos out there didn't help with this information, so I had to be the scapegoat.

>Do you own a color calibrator?
No
>Are they worth it?
If you do work in the visual arts (photography, video editing, digital drawing) on the professional or even prosumer level, yes.

I have 2. Got them from my parents. When I was born. They actually have many more uses besides calibrating monitors.

You can set the default ICC in window's settings too

din’t wurk on my projeckter

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No because my monitor is TN garbage anyway.

What is stopping me from buying one, calibrating all my displays, then returning it?

out from home for that? never!

What?

Color calibrators does not cure blue screen of death, sorry.

>pay a hundred bucks to use the device one (1) time
Well

Yes, on Windows color calibration shift the blue slider 1/4 way to the left.
Makes cheap laptop screens at least usable.

I just buy my monitors from a place that offers a calibration service.

I don't do professional work, so I don't care for re-calibrating the color drift over time, but the using the calibrated icc profile compared to the default settings is a rather big difference.

I've never used one and I worked in /gd/ for 3 years, it's better to just use an IPS panel using an sRGB profile, especially when making mobile apps.

unless you actually need it for work, no.
however, screens of the same model often have similar color characteristics, so you can just look for a cc profile online.
it wont be super accurate but still better than factory settings

Got a high end monitor and/or HDTV? Yes.
Got a peice of shit monitor and/or HDTV? No.
Just got myself a Colormunki Display and calibrated my Acer predator and LG OLED 4K TV. The OLED benefited more from it and looks amazing.
But if you generally don't see the difference between a calibrated display and one that is not you probably won't care anyhow.

I got my Colormunki Display which is a top notch calibrator for £99

what are you own about?

I've had to use them multiple times. I have several displays. Color changes over time on displays as they age.

i mean you can use it on your laptop, and 100 bucks aint much for a lifetime

Not all displays have accurate sRGB profiles and will require manual calibration.

Yes.
Yes.

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no I don't give a shit

They are so cheap nowadays, if you own at least two screens, it's worth it's money.

You actually can color calibrate a projector, just use a white sheet of paper on front of the calibrator and show the projector onto it.

dunno mate wut r u own aboot

Paper color can affect results. Best to put it on a tripod and aim it slightly upwards at the screen.

Yes, Yes

I'm still using my Spyder3 express with DisplayCal.

Color profile support differs from program to program in Windows. Thumbnail previews don't use them, for one thing... yet Windows photo viewer does... assumes your photo is sRGB.

It's really helpful if you have a wide-gaumut monitor since most shit is still designed for sRGB.

My old HP wide gamut IPS monitor died. Sadface. Everything after that was too expensive or lacking in some respect. I was tempted to just buy another secondhand but ended up going for a Acer 1440p IPS 144Hz monitor instead. Nowhere near as good for color and uniformity and only 8 bit. I am still waiting for something that combines all the things I want without breaking the bank but there is literally nothing out there that ticks all boxes. Also the 16:10 aspect ration was awesome.

Don't Macs all come pre-calibrated? (Macbooks and iPads obviously)

Rent one. Don't buy it.

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Not seen anyone renting them. Usually you hire a pro to do it for you. He will come with a tone generator and spend a few hours calibrating all your TV sources. He would charge extra for each display to be calibrated. Cost is about $300 or so. If you have your own colorimeter you can learn the ropes so to speak and do it in your own time. The only thing you will lack is a tone generator, But you can generate those from a computer anyhow.

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always wondered this too.
>buy this one use one time useless piece of shit
>$799
>forced to use atrocious proprietary "setup tool"
>"it changed something, i guess? i hardly notice any difference, but it must be better now"
>never use it again
>can't sell it either because it's not good enough for professional use
le mo

and it's always people like this with fucking TN panels jesus christ

Neither will the panels of end users

use your fucking eyes retard. only reason to get one of these if you print shit for money as even if you produce stuff for web/games every monitor is fucking dif any way.

The whole POINT of a color calibrator is so that you can use your eye. The human eye doesn't know what rgb(26, 78, 94) is. But it knows whether or not a color looks good when put next to another color. That's why you use a machine to make rgb(26, 78, 94) look like rgb(26, 78, 94) is "supposed" to look like.

I got a GretagMacBeth Eye1 Display 2 on ebay for something like 15$ years ago. They're branded as X-Rite now. I think it's from 2004, and you're supposed to attach it differently depending on whether its an LCD or CRT.

It works with DisplayCal and does *something*, generating profiles where the colors look different, but i can't quite tell if it's supposed to be correct or not. I have no idea if these things lose accuracy after a decade, or if this is just shit companies say to make you buy a new one.

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Display technology has changed so much that if you were really into this kinda thing I wouldn't trust something that old. But it's probably better than nothing and the difference probably doesn't matter unless you're a graphics designer whose work is going to be printed out on some industry quality printing device.

Perhaps, but what has really changed that much about display technology that would mess with the colorimeter? If it works across CRTs and LCDs then it probably doesn't matter what kind of display it is.

Also there really isn't much to suggest why an old device shouldn't be as good as a new one. I've thought that perhaps if it uses a plastic lens that yellows over time you might get different results, but that's just pure speculation. The only way to tell is to compare it to another device. But even in this old unit, there's an "ambient light" adapter that's supposed to take into account the lighting in your room, as that too supposedly affects the result. How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?