Just a heads up to anyone wanting to buy a budget calibrator.
The Datacolor Spyder5Express is a lightning deal at 8.30am tomorrow. I can see it dropping sub £70 (£85 atm). Seems to get decent reviews as well.
Is anyone using this on a Windows 10 PC? There's no mention of drivers on the website.
Gutted missed this - if anyone wants to move theirs on please let me know.
I'm running it at the moment! It's a lot slower than the native software, but seems to be running a bunch of tests. Hopefully I'll finally have a suitable calibration on my telly!There is some shareware DispcalGui and Argyllcms to make the express behave like an elite.
I did find one "gotcha". I had run a test calibration with the native software before installing the DisplayCal software. The native stuff has a small background task that keeps checking that the correct calibration is loaded. Since the calibration process in DisplayCal changes the lookup table regularly, they were in conflict and I couldn't get a calibration out of the DisplayCal software. Uninstalling the datacolour software fixed this. I've still a slight tint, but as I'm running that PC on a telly, I know I'll need to have a better look at how best to calibrate it (i.e. I never thought it would be a simple push-button operation)Its supposed to be much more accurate than the native software, and consistently so (or so the reviewer said about Spyder4).
is there anyway of knowing what the price reduction will be?
There is some shareware DispcalGui and Argyllcms to make the express behave like an elite.
I only saw references on Amazon.com (US) take a look on the reviews for the Spyder 4. The DisplayCal didn't used to support Spyder5 but I can see on their website it lists Spyder5 now. Not done it myself. My Spyder3 is broken on Windows 10 with geforce drivers, will not be impressed if the Spyder5 pro doesn't work (needed multi-monitor support - although the above route might've worked).
ordered the express thanks for the heads up
Me too.I gave in too.
Hmm, not such a 'Lightning' deal for me ... 1st told it would be here on Saturday, then today ... now 'it's been delayed'!