Monitor Calibration: PantoneHuey or Spyder 3 Express

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Has anyone experience of both of these - which one would you recommend?

They are both a similar price so just wondering which is best.

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Ian
 
I've used the Sypder 3 Express and have been quite impressed.....it's the first time I've used one though. Really easy to use.

Can't comment on the other one though....
 
My first choice would always be a Gretag/x-rite i1 display - easy to use - and the results are virtually identical to it's big brother used at almost every pro lab worldwide.

Never a spyder2 - as it doens't address the screen brightness.
 
snappingsam said:
My first choice would always be a Gretag/x-rite i1 display - easy to use - and the results are virtually identical to it's big brother used at almost every pro lab worldwide.

Never a spyder2 - as it doens't address the screen brightness.
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:agree: That and the variability of the Spyder out of the factory would worry me. See the last post in this thread: http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10457 (great read by the way)
 
I have the Spyder 3 Elite and am running dual monitors (from different manufacturers too), the setup works fine for me and the monitors profile very well.
 
snappingsam said:
My first choice would always be a Gretag/x-rite i1 display - easy to use - and the results are virtually identical to it's big brother used at almost every pro lab worldwide.

Never a spyder2 - as it doens't address the screen brightness.
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Cheers, That's a bit too pricey for my Amateur efforts though.

I actually ended up ordering the Pantone Huey on Friday as I need something this week.

I had a pro tog take some images of wood samples for me to use on a website, but they look way out on my monitor. I wanted to make sure it wasn't my monitor that was out, as opposed to the images.
 
IanAshworth said:
I have a Samsung Syncmaster P2270HD, running from Windows 7 64-bit.

Cheers
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Ah ha! Do you do a lot of photo editing on this? Is it good? Did the calibration work ok with it? It has a tv tuner built in as well doesnt it?

Sorry for the Q's, just that Im looking for sub 5ms response time monitor and dont think I can afford an IPS technology one. Samsung and LG keep coming in at the top of my searches.

Thanks.
 
DorsetDude said:
Ah ha! Do you do a lot of photo editing on this? Is it good? Did the calibration work ok with it? It has a tv tuner built in as well doesnt it?

Sorry for the Q's, just that Im looking for sub 5ms response time monitor and dont think I can afford an IPS technology one. Samsung and LG keep coming in at the top of my searches.

Thanks.
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It does have the built-in TV tuner yes. It's a great monitor, can't fault it for what I use it for, however I don't really do anything too graphics intensive on it.

Hopefully the calibration will work but it hasn't arrived yet.
 
IanAshworth said:
It does have the built-in TV tuner yes. It's a great monitor, can't fault it for what I use it for, however I don't really do anything too graphics intensive on it.

Hopefully the calibration will work but it hasn't arrived yet.
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Great, thanks. A couple of reviews on Amazon say it has terrible white colour bleed across the top and bottom but I am assuming you havent noticed that on yours.
 
IanAshworth said:
I have a Samsung Syncmaster P2270HD, running from Windows 7 64-bit.

Cheers
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I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with this on Windows 7 64 bit as I'm looking to get a calibrator and can't find confirmation of one that works with W7/64.
 
Eye one definitely works with Win7 64...
 
Wookee said:
I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with this on Windows 7 64 bit as I'm looking to get a calibrator and can't find confirmation of one that works with W7/64.
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Had this since the middle of last week and it works fine on W7 64.

Looking between the old/new screens I can see it had a blue overcast and the wood samples I was wanting to check look more true to life after the screen has been calibrated. It may not be spot on, I have no way of checking, but I can tell my screen is a helluva lot better than it was.

One of the 'gimmicks' with it is it sits on the desk and alters the screen depending on the light levels. I'm not sure if I like this feature as the screen keeps changing so may disable this. Impressed for the money though.
 
IanAshworth said:
One of the 'gimmicks' with it is it sits on the desk and alters the screen depending on the light levels. I'm not sure if I like this feature as the screen keeps changing so may disable this. Impressed for the money though.
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You can disable it (thats what i do) otherwise it sometimes gets confused if i put something on the desk too close to it etc.

Huey works fine on win7 64-bit. Ive never tried comparing it to anything else to know how accurate it is though.
 
IanAshworth said:
Had this since the middle of last week and it works fine on W7 64.

Looking between the old/new screens I can see it had a blue overcast and the wood samples I was wanting to check look more true to life after the screen has been calibrated. It may not be spot on, I have no way of checking, but I can tell my screen is a helluva lot better than it was.

One of the 'gimmicks' with it is it sits on the desk and alters the screen depending on the light levels. I'm not sure if I like this feature as the screen keeps changing so may disable this. Impressed for the money though.
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Thanks very much for that....think I'll order one:thumbs:
 
Would it not be a good idea for forum members interested in monitor calibration, to get together, set up a paypal account and chip in to buy a Spyder or Huey. We could then forward the thing onto the next person on the list. Just a thought.
 
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