Monitor calibration

Nekro Man · 17-06-2018 07:47PM #1

Well lads, can anyone recommend a decent monitor calibration service / place I can rent something like a Spyder for a couple of hours to calibrate my monitor?

Pricing one online comes up a bit more than I can afford at the moment.

Cheers!

Heebie · 17-06-2018 11:24PM

Monitor calibration changes under different lighting, so making sure you calibrate it where you're going to use it is a good idea.
If you use a laptop in several locations, it's a good idea to have a separate profile for each.

Nekro Man · 18-06-2018 08:41AM

Heebie wrote: »

Monitor calibration changes under different lighting, so making sure you calibrate it where you're going to use it is a good idea.
If you use a laptop in several locations, it's a good idea to have a separate profile for each.

I'm on a desktop, thanks for the reply though!

mdebets · 18-06-2018 09:26AM

Monitor calibration is not something you do once, but you have to re-calibrate it regularly. So even if there is a place that would do a rental (never heard of such a place), it would become very uneconomical for you in a very short time. Do you have a friend with whom you could split the cost and then swap it every week or so?

Heebie · 18-06-2018 05:41PM

If you end up buying, ColorMunki is pretty good value.
It's what I use.
When I was working professionally, I used i1 gear, and it was "da bomb." Great stuff.
Near zero paper waste due to incorrect color-matching to the screens.

Nekro Man · 18-06-2018 07:08PM

mdebets wrote: »

Do you have a friend with whom you could split the cost and then swap it every week or so?

That may well be the way I end up going, cheers for the solution!

Nekro Man · 18-06-2018 07:10PM

Heebie wrote: »

When I was working professionally, I used i1 gear.

Saw Linus using one of those and he commented on the price, I reckon even with two of us it may be out of the price range, cheers for the reply though!

Heebie · 18-06-2018 11:31PM

Nekro Man wrote:

Saw Linus using one of those and he commented on the price, I reckon even with two of us it may be out of the price range, cheers for the reply though!

ColorMunki might be a good option for you. Same parent company, I think. (X-Rite, pretty much the kings of color control.. every densitometer I've ever used was an X-Rite, whether I was working with Noritsu, Fujifilm gear for film and wet process paper)

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