datacolor SpyderPro

Description

While monitors and displays may come factory-calibrated, it’s important for users to calibrate their monitor to support their own particular workflow as well as to ensure it maintains accurate color over time. Users should calibrate their monitors every two weeks, before color-critical work, or whenever there’s a change in lighting conditions or locations. Calibration only takes about 90 seconds with the Datacolor SpyderPro, for users to have an accurate view into their digital world, maximizing the color performance and accuracy of their monitor for their specific workflow.

Even a trained eye can’t be relied upon for accurate color adjustment of a monitor. Our eyes and brains are designed to compensate for light and color, while the Spyder offers an unbiased assessment of monitor color accuracy. An accurate monitor allows the user to truly see their image file and edit with intention.

Portable, rugged, SpyderPro lets users streamline their workflow for photo, video, content creation, digital design, whether in the studio or on-the go. And now SpyderPro can calibrate an even wider range of monitors, including the latest technologies like OLED, mini-LED, Apple Liquid Retina XDR and high-brightness displays, allowing users to optimize color richness, deep shadows, nuanced highlights, and brightness versatility. Additional features such as SpyderPro’s StudioMatch and SpyderTune ensure color continuity across multiple monitors, whether using one or more computers.

Datacolor’s exclusive Device PreviewTM Beta feature gives users an impression of how their photographic images can look on other devices without needing to use the actual devices. Displays, printers and devices have different capabilities when it comes to the range of color they can represent (color gamut). This can result in color distortion or poor reproduction when the same image is viewed across multiple devices. Device PreviewTM Beta lets users see an approximation of their photo for mobile devices by simply selecting one of the profile options listed for the latest phones and tablets. Users can also use this feature to softproof/preview how their prints will look for a specific printer model, paper and ink, and print service provider by using an ICC printer profile.

Intuitive software and one-click-calibration presets quickly and easily guide novices so they can achieve professional results. Experienced professionals can take advantage of customizable calibration settings to master color like never before.

Benefits/Features
• Color Confidence That’s Fast & Easy – Spyder lets you easily calibrate your monitor in only about 90 seconds, so you can be confident that you’re beginning your editing from an accurate color starting point, saving you valuable time and effort in your editing workflow. The result? True-to-life color and fine detail capture.

• Professional Results for Every Experience Level – Intuitive software and one click calibration ensures ease of use and professional results for even the most
novice user while customizable calibration settings allow experienced professionals creative flexibility.

Calibration for Today’s Digital Workflows – SpyderPro now calibrates an even wider range of laptop/desktop and projector displays, including the latest technologies like OLED, mini-LED, and Apple Liquid Retina XDR so users can optimize the color richness, deep shadows, nuanced highlights and enhanced details these monitors make available. Additionally, it calibrates Wide and Standard LED gamuts, while affording workflow adaptability, allowing you to work in even the brightest of conditions with its high brightness feature. Working onthe-go with multiple portable displays attached to a single computer? The
SpyderTune feature lets you adjust white point, gamma, and brightness for visual fine tuning for the best consistency across multiple displays

• Color “Surprises” Are a Thing of the Past! – With Datacolor’s exclusive Device PreviewTM Beta feature, you’ll be able to simulate what your photos can look like on other devices on your own calibrated screen without uploading them to other devices for preview. Device PreviewTM Beta also allows you to soft proof your image in print so you can view how your image will appear on paper.

Patchwork Color: OK for Quilts, Not Digital Viewing – Multiple cameras and monitors, shifts in lighting, days of shooting, splicing footage – if your monitor’s color isn’t consistent, neither is your visual story. SpyderPro’s StudioMatch feature allows for side-by-side calibration for multiple computers/displays, ensuring consistent, accurate color reproduction across multiple connected monitors or computers.

• Video & Cinema Color You Can Count On – SpyderPro’s Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 targets ensure colors will be accurate so you can be confident that colors and images will translate properly across the production workflow, from editing and post-production to transmission, streaming, and final display. Rec. 709 is the most commonly used standard today, while Rec. 2020’s wider color gamut will let you deliver content that is more lifelike for a truly immersive experience for your audience.

• Get the “Big Picture” of Your Picture – The Advanced Display Mapping & Analysis feature of SpyderPro gives you detailed information about your monitor. You can check color/color uniformity, brightness, contrast, gamut, tone response, display accuracy and white point of your monitors to track color accuracy and consistency.

• Details Come Out from the Shadows – SpyderPro’s Gamma Curve Adjustment feature lets you refine tone distribution (how seamlessly black transitions to white). Gradations are enhanced so shadow and light details remain crisp and clear. You can also balance your display’s brightness settings based on your location and needs, for precise color accuracy to capture every detail.

• Customizable Calibration for Your Needs – SpyderPro offers unlimited calibration settings for fully customized calibration for all workflows. Fine tune the gamma, white point and brightness settings for any need. There’s also a preset list of the most common calibration targets, including those for video standards and StudioMatch. Willing to spend a bit more time for a more sophisticated calibration? Choose Better in Grey Balance in the calibration settings for smoother gradients. Pressed for time? Opt for the Faster setting.

• Adapt to Shifts in Light – Automatic Room Light Switching measures and tracks the lighting around you to make sure your current display profile is the one best suited for your environment. Not every task requires controlled lighting so allowing Spyder to adapt the calibration to your room lighting will ensure your monitor profile is optimal. During a Room Light Calibration, multiple profiles are
created for different room lighting levels.

• Use CheckCal for Confidence – CheckCal is Datacolor’s answer to the question, “Is my calibration still valid?” CheckCal performs a short test on your monitor to verify your calibration is up to date.

• Calibration as Bright as Your Environment – Some modern monitors have brightness levels for use outdoors or in other highly illuminated settings. SpyderPro’s High Brightness calibration setting balances these monitors when working in a bright environment for an accurate reference.

• Keep Connected – Native USB-C connection comes standard with the Spyder, along with an additional USB-A adaptor for added convenience when needed.

Manufacturer’s P/N SP2004PRO