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Ultimatepost performance Making an image in-camera is only half the story. Editing accounts for the rest, but calibration is essential to ensure you’re working in an optimal environment – that’s where the award-winning Datacolor SpyderX Elite comes in…
THE MORE DEDICATED among us can pour hours into a single photo. That doesn’t just include time spent pacing the streets, labouring over the perfect lighting set-up, or hiking to a sprawling vista before dawn. A great deal of effort also goes into editing. There are as many secrets to discover in post-production as with your camera – and the first is screen calibration. Consider it the foundation upon which all editing is built. The process ensures your monitor’s colours are accurate, enabling you to apply any changes exactly as intended. Without calibration, your finalised
image may look perfect to you on that particular screen – but viewed elsewhere, it can lose a great deal of its finely tuned charm. The question remains: why the Datacolor SpyderX Elite? Having won the best colour management solution, as voted for by PN readers, it offers plenty to rave about. It all begins with the colorimeter, which reads the screen. The lens- based SpyderX is highly advanced and backed by years of research, featuring higher light sensitivity than most options on the market – thanks to carefully crafted sensors. The result
WORTH THEWAIT Datacolor spent three years developing the lens-based colour-engine technology featured in the SpyderX, giving greater precision to screen colour, white balance and shadow details. The unit even includes an ambient light sensor to measure room brightness during the day
FAST AND SIMPLE The SpyderX is Datacolor’s quickest and most user-friendly screen calibration device ever
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