Why I buy this one ?
- The "Standard" in Monitor Calibration
- Rated Best Calibration by MacWorld April 2005
- Calibrates any monitor (Laptop, CRT, LCD)
- The leader in monitor calibration solutions

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What our customer's say!

"It's a start, anyway -- Amazon has a great price, too!", I guess you could say when it come to ease of use -- in terms of just setting up this gizmo and running monitor adjustments -- it gets 4 stars, maybe 5, for ease of use. Install the software in a minute, position the sensor, start the program, lie to the software and say your monitor has no controls of any kind (Spyder will then kick off a completely automated, hands-free scan), and less than 10 minutes later you're home free. Unfortunately after over a dozen runs on 3 of my monitors, it's evident that Spyder's programmers are fascinated, maybe even obsessed, with the color RED. They must figure the redder the better, I guess. Finally I ignored one of their iron-clad rules: rather than leave the room totally dark or covering my monitor with a blanket during the scans, I turned on the rather subdued, soft lighting I use for PC video work (who the %$#&* works in total darkness? Do you? You can't even see your keyboard!). With some gentle ambient worklight (tungsten) nearby, I finally got a really nice adjustment from Spyder. Did a teentsy bit of tweaking with some of DVE's tv test patterns, and now it's about right. Tip: Don't calibrate in total darkness, run it in the same light you use for PC work, short of flashing strobes and circus floodlights. Caution: this will not make games or videos look "better" on your PC. Media players, games, and most other Windows programs have no way of recognizing .icm color profiles. Photoshop Pro does ($600), and Sony Vegas Pro does ($800), and a few Windows games that need $400 graphics cards -- but Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, most freebie photo printing programs, most Kodak photo-CD browsers, most consumer video editors, and most digital camera utilities do not use Windows or Mac color profiles. For that you'll have to run a manual setup on your CRT and push your own sliders. Sorry, LCD's have notoriously goofy picture controls, so don't be surprised if manual doesn't work with LCD's (anyone who uses LCD's for graphics work is fighting a losing battle anyway). Subtract 1 star because Spyder2 told me that before adjustment my monitor was too green. It wasn't. It was too blue. Otherwise, Spyder2 on auto did neat, quick work on 3 monitors and two laptops. With some qualifications in mind, I'd recommend Spyder2 over the usual calibration videos or test pics.

"spyder2 suite windows", Color Vision Spyder2 suite is Perfect for my needs and even more worked right out of the box no muss no fuss the results were even better than I could have hoped for

"Not worth the effort", I received the Spyder2 Suite on April 3, 2008. Installation was straight forward with no problems. It appears to do what it says it will do, however, two weeks later when it was time to recalibrae, found a problem. The recalibration would reach the point of "Adjust Color Temperature Preset". Next step should be "Attach colorimeter to screen" but it bypassed this step and went to "Remove colorimeter" and loops back and forth between these two steps. Finally I would have to close the program. The only way I can recalibrate the monitor is uninstall and reinstall the software.

Went on line and registered with Datacolor (Colorvision) and they said I would receive an email so as to validate my email address. To this date (May l7, 2008) haven't received anything from them. After two weeks and no email, sent them an email explaining the situtation and ask for help in this matter. Still haven't received anything from Datacolor. Called their 800 support line and was told that he couldn't help as his departmnet doesn't handle the problem of not receiving emails, but he did give me an email address for downloading v2.3 as I was using v2.2. My AT&T browser said it couldn't find the address. Finally sent a letter, by mail, to the General Manager directly, asking for help on this matter, as you can't receive support or download software updates without being registered. That has been two weeks now and no reply. So I guess this is my problem now and it appears Datacolor just doesn't care about it's customers. Also didn't find out that the Spyder2 Express and Spyder2 Suite are discontinued products until almost a month after purchasing. I would go to another company.

I would have gave Spyder2 Suite 4 maybe 5 stars if I wasn't having the problem and could get support. I didn't purchase it for profiling the printer as other previews said this sucked anyway. The Suite has more options than the Express.

UPDATE (May 19,2008)
After trying one more time, I called the 800 support line and explained my problem again and was transfered to someone else to resolve this issue of not receiving an email so as to validate my account. While my email address was registered with Colorvision (Datacolor) it couldn't be explained why I couldn't receive an email from them. Tried registering with an disposable email address and this worked. I was able to click on the link and validate and was able to download v2.3. After uninstalling v2.2 and installing v2.3 it would still skip the step of "Attach colorimater". Only by deleting the profile created by Spyder2 by going to Control Panel>Display>Advanced>Color Management was I able to calibrate, and right afterwards to make sure I could, recalibrate the monitor, but by only deleting the profile created first. If I don't, it will bypass the step of attaching the colorimeter.

I will now give it a 4 STAR RATING and not a 5 star because of all the problems experienced and would recommend this product to others.


"Will improve your display's color reproduction!", I was surprised how much it changed the color reproduction on the monitors -- especially since I wasn't really sure the monitors needed calibration. The first calibration on the 17" MacBook Pro did NOT produce good results; Apple recommends using a target gamma of 1.8 so that was what I initially used and the resulting calibration was horrible. I reran the calibration using the target gamma recommended by Spyder (i.e., 2.2) and got great results. Since then I've calibrated two other monitors and gotten very good results -- the tones look truer and the colors are more vibrant. My only regret is that I didn't shell out the extra $$ for the Pro version so that the software would remembered which monitor was being calibrated.

"Terrible software", Seems like it would be a great product if the software wasn't so bad. The profile chooser software is terrible. Constant messages and errors and they still haven't fixed it. I have to constantly select the correct color profile at bootup and nothing I've tried seems to fix that. When I do run with the color profile, it's great though, so I give it 3 stars. 5 is the software was good.

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"Glad I bought it!!", For the longest time my photos did not print out the way it looked on my monitor. After doing a little research I got the Colorvision Syder2 to calibrate my monitor. Its easy to use. Within minutes my monitor was calibrated. I gave it a test and immediately printed out a photo. It was exactly what I was looking for. It printed out great. Monitor calibration is what I needed and the Colorvision Spyder2 did a great job.

"Amazing Monitor Colors", Its as easy as 123. Following the instructions made my 22" monitor, and my printer produce exactly what my NIKON D-200 recorded. I wish I had purchased this software sooner. I had read about this software on Ken Rockwells web site. Now I know why he spoke so highly of it. If you want to see and print what your camera sees - you gotta buy this software

"Product Performs Well", I actually got very good results, particularly with a cheaper secondary monitor. Used this the day I got it, now I can actually use my secondary monitor for photos. (It's a Kogi monitor that was pretty good when new, but never the same after it failed and was serviced.) Anyway now the images are pretty reasonable. I did have to switch my monitor ports in order to calibrate the second monitor, I think that's a limitation of the non-Pro version of the software. Doing that on a regular basis would be a total pain. I don't know too many designers that only use one monitor these days and who else is gonna use this product? So, the single monitor limitation is sort of sucky. But the product works VERY WELL, as advertised.

"calibrate your monitor", This product was recommended by a speaker at a photoshop workshop. He said it was the most accurate way to calibrate your monitor.
The product was shipped fast and was in good condition.

"It just works", Anyone doing digital photography needs to calbrate their monitor. There are several reaconably priced hardware products availe which do that well. As a Mac user, the choices are limited. After reading reviews on several products, I purchased the Spyder2 and it works as advertised. The only issue was, I was unable to find a way to reset the monitor (30" Aple Cinema Display) to factory defaults. I disabled the manual controls and told the calibration s/w that there were no controls. It calibrated the monitor properly. Simple to use, reliable results. Good investment.