Datacolor SpyderX Photo Kit

Featuring an advanced lens-based colour engine for fast, precise, and versatile performance, SpyderX Elite from Datacolor is an intuitive monitor calibration system for professional photographers and videographers seeking ultimate control of their colour workflow. This powerful system provides you with increased precision, colour accuracy, and low-light capabilities for maintaining consistently accurate colours. SpyderX Elite meets these needs with an extensive selection of colour calibration options including photo, video, and prepress standards as well as additional options for matching and tuning multiple displays and projectors.

SpyderX Elite provides thorough, one-click, and wizard-guided calibration, along with display mapping and analysis to fine-tune your results, and calibrating your monitor takes just a minute or two and happens so fast you won’t even consider skipping it. The colourimeter incorporates an ambient light sensor to measure prevailing light conditions for room-light monitoring, and the system’s SpyderProof feature provides a before-and-after evaluation of your display with full-screen images. A device simulation function allows you to preview how images will print on different printers and papers or appear on different mobile or tablet devices, and SpyderX Elite also features calibration settings for TV and video standards. With SpyderX Elite, you can be sure that what you see on screen is an accurate representation of your image, and you will have more confidence than ever knowing that your screen is properly calibrated for achieving your ultimate goal, the true expression of your creative vision.

The SpyderCUBE RAW Calibration Tool from Datacolor is a compact (1.5″/3.8 cm square), digital colour balancing tool that not only allows you to correct the colour temperature but also the exposure, brightness, and black point of your images. The SpyderCUBE is a spectrally neutral three-dimensional tool that’s small enough to fit in your pocket or camera bag and gives you all the features needed to easily adjust your images in post-production. Its multi-sided construction allows special attention to highlights and shadows and contains more features for image control than a grey card or white balance tool.

Just place the SpyderCUBE in the lighting conditions under which you will be photographing. Orient the cube so that the lower black face, containing the black trap, is at the bottom front, and the two split white/grey faces are both visible. Take a photograph that includes the Cube. It makes several measurements that make it possible for you to be confident that your colours are accurate, your shadows and highlights are properly exposed, and your image is adjusted to the ideal density, regardless of the lighting conditions. These functions give you the data you need:

1 Chrome Ball – Measures catchlight to analyze specular highlights.
2 White Face(s) – Define highlights in relation to catchlight.
3 Grey Face(s) – Measures colour temperature and mid-tone response.
4 Black Face – Defines shadows in relation to black trap.
5 Black Trap – Defines absolute black.

By using SpyderCUBE under the same lighting conditions as your photos, you can optimally adjust all the
photos in RAW conversion using the information the Spyder 3D shot provides. The SpyderCUBE is easy enough for the advanced amateur and sophisticated enough for professionals.

Whether capturing still or motion images you can use the Datacolor SpyderCHECKR 24 Color Chart to effectively balance colours. With 24 saturated colour patches, you benefit from full-size, spectrally designed pigment patches as well as two skin tone and six grey ramp patches. The SpyderCHECKR 24 also enables in-camera and post-process white balance and exposure adjustment.