In the case of the spyder3, it didn't even work with windows, really. No more whites, everything is blue, the colour profile it creates is horrible. I tried it with daylight, incandescent, etc and to be honest I can do much better with my eye. Definitely returning it when I get back from my trip to London and the Libre Graphics Meeting. Crap in a box for 99€ if you ask me.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Colour management
I've been looking for a local store which offers a colour sprectromitor and chanced upon the spyder3. I have to say that it is a total let-down. It doesn't work on Linux to begin with. I feared this going in but the gracious return policy at the store allows me to buy things and simply return them within two weeks without any reason - my standard answer is "It doesn't work with linux". They smile and give me my money back - great store, they get a large part of my earnings :-)
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works perfectly fine on Linux. There is a list of supported colorimeters here: http://www.argyllcms.com/doc/instruments.html
ReplyDeleteArgyll CMS has support for the Spyder3. And if you don't want to use the command line try Gnome Color Manager. This article has more information...
ReplyDeleteI don't know about Spyder3, but Spyder2 worked for me beautifully in Linux by following this guide:
ReplyDeletehttp://jcornuz.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/use-colorvision-spyder-to-produce-an-icc-monitor-profile-under-argyllcms-linux/
I'd check out the Pantone Huey Pro. It's reasonably inexpensive and works with Linux.
ReplyDeleteYea, the Spyder3 was what I was talking about at the session of not being supported by Linux. It seems from talking to them last year they may not be opposed to producing binary only support for Linux but seem to see themselves primarily, or at least in large part, as a software company so it doesn't seem very likely they would be receptive to providing specs for open source support. Perhaps the difference between their low end and high end hardware is just in what their driver allows you to do, similar to the differences between Nvidia consumer and quadro hardware. But if their hardware in general sucks, as you mentioned, its not as big an issue as I thought, just buy something better and already supported.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU FOR THE INFO!
ReplyDeleteI've been looking into getting a monitor profiler because I'm really into editing my RAW photos with digiKam.
How would you recommend I set my laptop's display to be more color correct?
I think hughsie bought a Pantone Huey for GNOME Color Manager, so I guess it should work, but you better take a look for yourself:
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/
I've been using a Spyder2 for a few years. I create the color profiles in Windows, and use the file with xcalib under Linux.
ReplyDeleteWorks great, except for the part where I have to boot in Windows.
The colors are great. I do professional photography (with a Nikon D3 and other stuff), and the Spyder2 does a great job.
The Spyder2 works with Linux flawlessly. I believe you can still buy them.
ReplyDeleteI've used it to calibrate my laptop with gnome-color-manager + argyll
I only now see the most important part of my post is missing... It's the Pantone Huey I have that works fine, not the spider 3.
ReplyDeleteWow someone managed to reverse engineer the Spyder3 which is great news. Hopefully they work better than what Ken was able to get his to do. I know someone with one so I'll have to have him bring it over and see how it does on my IPS screen.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime I got the spyder to work. Unfortunately my thinkpad display is broken :P I've used it to tune my desktop and it work fine.
ReplyDeleteThe update from karmic to lucid fixed things. Installing gnome-color-manager on lucid did the job :-)