- £299
- datacolor.com
Datacolor's Spyder X2 is the latest iteration of the firm's monitor-calibration device. It's designed to help photographers and videographers adopt a colour-managed workflow, ensuring that their laptop screens and desktop monitors all display images and footage accurately. Compared to the previous SypderX model, the hardware looks practically identical, just updated with a USB-C connector rather than USB-A. However, the software has been substantially revised.
Datacolor offers the Spyder X2 in two versions, Elite (£249) and Ultra (£299). The main difference between them is that the latter allows profiling of displays with a maximum luminance of up to 2,000 nits, which should be valuable to photographers who require such super-bright monitors for tethered shooting outdoors. Meanwhile the Elite version is limited to standard displays up to 750 nits.
This story is from the July 25, 2023 edition of Amateur Photographer.
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