Our human eyes need to get used to the calibrated display, since the target of 6500K is much warmer compared to standard monitors which are adjusted for office use and are therefore much colder. Last but not least, some more technical facts/details: be aware that many video card drivers use their own colormanagement, which needs to be disabled in order to make sure the calibration will not be faulty/destroyed (otherwise, you would to a kind of double profiling which could cause such a strange colorcast). and also make sure that your computer uses the very latest video card driver version Then please make sure that the Spyder lays flat on the screen in the center where the patches are displayed and try to prevent direct bright light (e.g. check that you have turned off all screen savers and energy savers during the calibration. Do not use USB-Hubs and/or USB-extension cords as this could result into problems with the power supply. always plug the Spyder into an USB port in the back of your computer (close to the keyboard/mouse). first of all, double check with our download site that you got the very latest software version installed: or.com ….php?_m=downloads&_a=view Several issues could cause such a color cast. do you think my Spyder is faulty? or could it be the RGB screen is difficult for the Spyder to accurately work with (I have read that earlier models had trouble with LED RGB displays) or could it be another reason (including me being an idiot) Their screens are pretty poor at the best of times so the differences was just a different kind of poor, if you see what I mean I have also lined up my HP Envy 17 with it's 100% sRGB screen (according to the Spyder), which gave poor result with the Spyder, but nothing like as bad as the Dell result and also I tried the Spyder on a couple of Acer laptops I have. As they have not been conditioned by staring at my screen for weeks they should be unbiased witnesses and as experts in colour matching, their opinion must have some credence. Every single one of them said it (the Dell) looked awful and once I showed them the original default settings they said they easily preferred them. Anyhoo, as a professional outside broadcast TV sounds engineer, i thought I should take advantage of the many qualified Vision Engineers I work with and give them a look. As an old saying goes "Accuracy implies precision, but precision does not imply accuracy". So i rechecked and tested etc and after 6 attempts, I saw great consistency with the results, but always poor colours. I checked picture taken with different cameras and they all looked awful. Peoples faces looking like beetroots! As a reference, documents that are mainly whitish in their appearance (WORD for instance) looked decidedly greenish. Everything seem to have a slight shift to green although Reds were super strong and saturated. I know many people will think I should get used to the new colours, but it is much worse than that. Anyway, the 'not so good' bit was how the screen looked. It also gave a fairly high Adobe RGB score. which for a laptop I thought was pretty good. It told me I had a wide gamut monitor and eventually said I had 99% sRGB gamut. So I checked my display was set to default, left it on for ages (it is well run in by now too) and let the Spyder go to work. Out of the box the Dell looked very vibrant and a little over saturated, especially in the Reds. I recently bought the above Spyder 4 Pro to compliment my new Dell XPS 15 Laptop with RBG display.
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