In today's digital darkroom, even brand new monitors need calibration on a regular basis. Monitor calibration controls your display's color so that it is accurate and consistent from day-to-day and image-to-image. The acclaimed SpyderPRO with OptiCAL combines the award-winning Spyder - an all-digital, seven-filter colorimeter that works with both CRT and LCD monitors with the industry's premiere monitor calibration software - OptiCAL. The SpyderPRO with OptiCAL calibrates your monitor to a universal standard for color and automatically creates a correct monitor profile.

The end result - a monitor that displays accurate color and lets you trust what you see on your screen.

The SpyderPRO with OptiCAL delivers precise, repeatable results in a few easy steps. First, a unique pre-calibration function allows you to balance your monitor's RGB guns giving you the widest color gamut your monitor is capable of producing. Next you'll select a target for gamma and color temperature, attach the Spyder to the face of your monitor, and click the "Calibrate" button. OptiCAL does the rest! Now you'll know you're getting the most from your monitor.

The SpyderPRO with OptiCAL also includes a portfolio of advanced tools for adjusting calibration parameters for a single monitor or calibrating multiple monitors to a common standard. These tools include a wide choice of gamma and color temperature targets, curve manipulation, precision and expert control modes, information windows, and monitor focus, geometry and uniformity checking utilities.

A calibrated monitor is the cornerstone of the digital darkroom. The SpyderPRO with OptiCAL addresses this need by providing professionals and advanced amateurs with accurate, reliable, and consistent color from day-to-day, image-to-image, and monitor-to-monitor. With today's soft proofing techniques, the SpyderPRO with OptiCAL, lets you trust what you see on your screen.

The Image below illustrates the correction curve
applied to the monitor after calibration is complete.

• Patent-protected 7-filter emissive colorimeter. The Spyder divides emitted light into more wavelength bands than conventional colorimeters that only offer 3 filters enabling it to more effectively describe the industry standard tristimulus matching curves - the end result - a more accurate calibration.

   

• Optimized for both CRT and LCD usage. The Spyder's novel honey-comb baffle for LCD calibration provides the Spyder with two light paths - one optimized for CRT's and the other for LCD's. Therefore calibration accuracy is maintained for both LCD and CRT usage unlike conventional colorimeters that optimize for one monitor type at the expense of the other.

   

• Wide choice of gamma and color temperature targets. OptiCAL does not lock you into arbitrary gamma or color temperature settings, enabling you to adjust your monitor output to your personal creative preference or a third party standard.

   

• Pre-calibration function. The OptiCAL pre-calibration function balances the RGB guns of your monitor allowing you to achieve the widest color gamut your monitor can produce resulting in better flesh tones, more even grays, and more open shadows.

   

• Curves Tool. OptiCAL allows you to adjust individual RGB response curves giving you the ability to adjust shadow detail, flesh tones, and other preferences to your own creative vision or third party standards.

   

• Free Technical Support and Software Upgrades. ColorVision wants to make it easy for you to take the leap into digital color control. Our money-back guarantee, free technical support, and free software upgrades make it easier for you to take the plunge.