A very good find. My spyder didn't see any use in many many years. Today it's back online and calibrated my old Dell monitor. Next is an old HP notebook with very bad colors out of the box.
Thanks! Toine On 16 January 2017 at 08:39, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Well the main reason for this post is to help out anyone else trying to get > new life from older equipment. In this case the Spyder2 Colorimeter. > > ColorVision doesn't support it for Microsoft OS' beyond Windows XP, but I > hate to discard perfectly good hardware if I can avoid it. > > I was able to find a free third party software product that seems to have > done the job. It /only/ took about two hours for the analysis to run. I > don't know if it's very through or very inefficient. > > I stayed up to make sure it didn't need any user intervention, but for the > most part it runs automatically. > > Anyway if you're interested in giving new life to an old Colorimeter, The > product is called DisplayCAL. > > It can be a little tricky and obtuse to initially install, and takes a long > time to profile a monitor, but hey it's free and seems to work. It also > supports a wide range of colorimeters, not just the Spyder2. > > Now I'm off to bed, before I do something stupid and try to soft proof and > print an image. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
