Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56 in Software
• Brand: ColorVision
• Model: S2E100
• Released on: 2006-05-03
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.75" h x 8.50" w x 10.25" l, 4.00 pounds

Features

• Sleek, dual-phase hardware design offers effortless calibration
• CRT, LCD, and laptop displays to industry standards
• State-of-the-art optical science; before and after viewing
• Exceptionally smooth gradient steps and neutral grays
• Outstanding reliability backed by a 2-year hardware warranty

From the Manufacturer
Calibrate your display--just like professionals. Spyder2express calibrates monitors in three easy steps--simply plug it in, specify your display type, and it does the rest, automatically calibrating your monitor or laptop. Check the before-and-after. You'll see the improvement!

Features:

• CRT, LCD, and laptop displays to industry standards
• Easy software wizard guiding you through the calibration process in just a few steps means you don't have to be a color guru
• New state-of-the-art optical science provides a five-fold increase in color sensitivity over previous technology with a patent-protected light baffle for accurate characterization of LCD displays
• Sleek, dual-phase hardware design offers effortless LCD, CRT, and laptop calibration while protecting delicate LCD screens
• Outstanding reliability backed by a two-year hardware warranty
• Sophisticated gray balance and tonal response algorithms provide demanding users with exceptionally smooth gradient steps and neutral grays
• Unique before and after viewing feature lets you compare your display with and without calibration

Customer Reviews

If you're on an Intel Mac, don't bother
The colorimeter itself seems fine, but the Mac OS X software for this unit is buggy and not a universal binary (which, if they were going to update it for Intel Macs, I would think they would have by now). Twice I had it crash at the end of a 10-minute calibration, before I was able to save the profile. The app would subsequently hang on opening, so that I had to completely uninstall it to get it to launch again. I returned it and will spend the bigger bucks on a Gretag-MacBeth or Xrite unit.

Great product and easy to use
This made a big difference on my gateway laptop. Before, some things just didn't look right. This brought a new level of quality to my laptop monitor. I highly recommend it. It is pretty easy to use.

Good except for....
The product is easy to use and worked well for me, except I had to send it back because it cannot handle a dual monitor setup with 2 profiles. I confirmed this with the vendor. So, go for it, but only if you have one monitor.