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Datacolor Spyder4Elite S4EL100 Colorimeter for Display Calibration

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  • Automated Color and Brightness Calibration
  • Full-spectrum color sensor
  • Calibrate all your LED, OLED, LCD and CRT displays, Laptops and front projectors
  • Improved accuracy and stability - The fourth-generation Spyders have double-shielded color filters for even closer match to CIE color standards and improved long term stability. Average accuracy is up 26% and consistency between Spyder units is 19% better.
  • Fast Re-calibration Assistant - The ReCAL feature makes it quick and easy to recalibrate your display to compensate for changes over time.
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The Spyder4Elite is for pro photographers and color perfectionists. The advanced multiple display tuning is perfect for studios. It provides complete color calibration control for multiple displays, laptops, iPads and projectors. The advanced luminance and color graphing features deliver the utmost in color management. Go for the best!

From the Manufacturer

Spyder4Elite is a display color-calibration solution designed for photographers, videographers, and video editors who need the highest level of color control in the studio and flexibility in post-production. It features a full-spectrum seven-color sensor that accurately calibrates a variety of wide-gamut and normal displays, including monitors, laptops, iPads, iPhones, and projectors. Spyder4Elite uses double-shielded filters for longer life and optimum performance, and it can adapt to ambient light conditions, giving you true-to-life image reproduction.

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At a Glance:
  • Single sensor easily calibrates a variety of display types, including projectors
  • Full-spectrum seven-color sensor produces true-to-life images
  • Fourth-generation sensor increases accuracy by 26 percent
  • Ambient light sensing preserves image contrast
  • Advanced MQA tools provide maximum color management control
  • Designed for photographers, videographers, and video editors

The three-legged design sits flat on your display to ensure precise readings.
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Spyder4Elite's step-by-step calibration wizard helps you calibrate your displays.
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Calibration results in neutral greys and corrected white point. View larger.

Single Sensor Calibrates All Your Displays

Whether you are using the latest in LED technology, an older CRT monitor, a laptop, iPod, iPhone, or projector, Spyder4Elite Software allows you to calibrate all your devices with a single sensor to achieve all-around consistency in color and brightness.

A simple upgrade kit, available online for an additional charge, allows you to add calibration for your TV. You can also calibrate multiple displays connected to your computer, a valuable function for professional photographers and studios.

Simple Calibration Process

Spyder4Elite's step-by-step calibration wizard helps you calibrate your displays. After performing a few preliminary steps, you can easily define the display type, model, and system of calibration.

A configuration of 2.2 gamma, 6500K white point, and 120 brightness is recommended, but with unlimited options available, you can easily adjust these settings to your preference.

A "ReCAL" feature allows you to quickly and easily recalibrate your display to compensate for changes that occur over time.

Patented Full-Spectrum Color Sensor

The patented seven-color sensor makes Spyder4Elite an improvement upon colorimeters that use three-channel RGB sensors.

Each unit is individually tuned in the factory to accurately and easily handle a variety of wide-gamut and normal-gamut displays.

Adapts Display to Surrounding Light

Spyder4Elite features an additional sensor that detects light changes in the surrounding environment and adapts the display luminance to preserve image contrast. This means you can view and edit images with confidence on a display calibrated to show true-to-life colors.

Improved Accuracy and Stability

The fourth-generation Spyder4Elite has double-shielded color filters to better match CIE color standards, and it has improved long-term stability over previous generations.

The three-legged design sits flat on your display to ensure precise readings and includes a wide aperture, honeycomb baffle, and diffuser to remove angular sensitivity.

Overall, Spyder4 offers an increase in average accuracy of 26 percent over the previous generation of Spyder3.

Additional Features and Software Options

Additional features for even greater color management control include: built-in presets for video standards, such as Cineon, NTSC and PAL; customizable workflow settings; unlimited choices for gamma, white point, and white-and-black luminance; gray balance algorithm for the most accurate grays; and front projector calibration for color-accurate presentations. StudioMatch and SpyderTune features allow for visual fine-tuning of multiple displays in the studio.

This Spyder colorimeter also features Advanced Monitor Quality Analysis tools for professional users, offering uniformity luminance and color graphing tools, as well as advanced calibration accuracy testing, display gamut graphing, and support for CRT displays.

Spyder4Elite is backed by a one-year warranty.

Installation Requirements

For installation, Spyder4Elite requires Windows XP 32/64, Windows Vista 32/64, Windows 7 32/64, MacOS X Panther (10.4), Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), or Lion (10.7); a color monitor with at least 1024 x 768 resolution; a 24-bit video card; and a powered USB port.

What's in the Box

Datacolor Spyder4Elite colorimeter, desktop cradle/tripod mount, Spyder4Elite Software CD, and Quick Start Guide.

Features Spyder4Express Spyder4Pro Spyder4Elite One-Click, No Options Calibration

Ambient Light Measurement
Number of Displays per Computer 1 MULTIPLE MULTIPLE Projector Calibration

Basic Multiple Display Tuning

Advanced Multiple Display Tuning

Advanced Calibration Functions

Gamut Graphing final screen Basic MQA (monitor quality analysis)
% sRGB, AdobeRGB, NTSC
Advanced Calibration Accuracy Test
Monitor Quality Rating
Display Gamut Graphing
Gamma & Gray Ramp Test
White Point Test
Advanced MQA

Luminance Uniformity Graphing

Color Uniformity graphing

Advanced Error Reporting Info Sharing (Datacolor Only Feature) New High Stability Color Filters iPad and iPhone Ready Updated Firmware for Improved Accuracy Software Version 4.5

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Customer reviews

3.5 out of 5 stars
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Customers like the performance and ease of use of the screen protector. They say it works well, is user friendly and easy to set up. Customers are also satisfied with the value. However, some customers disagree on accuracy, quality, and color reproduction.

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52 customers mention39 positive13 negative

Customers like the performance of the screen protector. They mention that it works well, the process is easy, and the results are quite good. Some say that it's easy to use and works even on new 4K screens.

"...It runs better, AFTER you remove Datacolor software and run Windows Calibration Once (ideally before Spyder Calibration) so that it will load..." Read more

"...The software worked well and now my monitor appears to be calibrated...." Read more

"...ColorMunki's software was fairly buggy, but once I got it installed it worked well, and I was happy with the look of my two monitors...." Read more

"...After reading reviews for all the options; I took a chance. This device worked perfectly!..." Read more

29 customers mention27 positive2 negative

Customers find the screen protector easy to use. They mention that the setup and use are a breeze, with a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to fine tune side-by-side. They also appreciate the simple software and tool.

"...Easier to use: it is really easy to use. As the other brand, the Spider 4 Elite also comes with an ambient light measure...." Read more

"...It works good, easy to use.But I bought it hoping it would make my laptop screen "Better" for non photography work...." Read more

"...The Spyder software is more intuitive and steps you through the calibration process better...." Read more

"...The software and the tool itself are simple and very nice to use, so for a single monitor, its probably fantastic, but it looks like I'm still stuck..." Read more

13 customers mention10 positive3 negative

Customers like the value of the screen protector. They mention that it's worth the cost and a great item.

"...The difference is night and day. And I feel it is worth the cost, especially because I can calibrate my other computers..." Read more

"...The 4K & standard 1080p TV's did as well. Very versatile device. Worth the $$." Read more

"...Bottom line...The Spyder is worth every cent you pay for it." Read more

"...between the two, though, I'd recommend ColorMunki because it is cheaper and a better value." Read more

4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

Customers find the screen protector very consistent and accurate.

"...This proves in my opinion the Spyder 4 is very consistent but not capable of dealing accurately with some screens color spectrum...." Read more

"...It's dead-on consistent, and does a great job of matching together monitors with significantly different display characteristics...." Read more

"This unit is awesome! It is extremely easy to use and is very accurate. It has made editing my photos much easier, and the results are great...." Read more

"Very accurate." Read more

34 customers mention19 positive15 negative

Customers are mixed about the accuracy of the screen protector. Some mention that it calibrates the monitor well, resulting in more true printing correlation. However, others say that it didn't allow for accurate calibration between different monitors, was unable to do calibration on their JVC X500 projector, and exhibits a problem in the calibration cycle.

"...It can also calibrate my printer, which I have not yet done since I normally send my work to a professional printing lab rather than printing at home." Read more

"...In the end I was left with completely inaccurate everything... but not improved at all...." Read more

"...It allows easy options for calibrating multiple monitors, although even with the best possible calibration, you'll see differences between different..." Read more

"...After two FULL uninstall and reinstalls the software still exhibits a problem in the calibration cycle at the White point setting...." Read more

30 customers mention20 positive10 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the screen protector. Some mention it's awesome, easy to use, and accurate. They say it'll be a valuable tool in striving for perfection. However, others say that it screwed up their laptop display and monitors.

"...The new features do look interesting and perhaps useful but AGAIN with this version there is NO User Manual or software documentation...." Read more

"...can tell color calibration is their game, not software - it crashes fairly frequently)..." Read more

"...Working with a webcam was also a surprise since the image was more true to life...." Read more

"...my high gamut ASUS PA279Q 27" set in standard mode, result was rather good which means that calibration removed a slight green cast and whites..." Read more

28 customers mention16 positive12 negative

Customers are mixed about the color reproduction of the screen protector. Some mention that it does an excellent job of getting the colors correct and matching, while others say that it didn't do an excellent or accurate job.

"...You can make a very complete table of color corrections, which with the speed of the X-Rite unit is practical whereas it would be painfully slow to..." Read more

"...with the same horrible result: a strong and totally unacceptable red cast...." Read more

"...The results were such that I rarely discard a print. The color change was a surprise and it made me ask what I had been using up until that time...." Read more

"...The Advanced Quality Analyzer feature has luminance and color uniformity graphing...." Read more

8 customers mention0 positive8 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the software. They mention that it's unintuitive and buggy. Some say that the software is outdated and not for projector calibration.

"...but there are some serious issues with the software...." Read more

"...process went fairly smoothly - with just a couple hiccups with buggy software..." Read more

"...I'd say overall I'd go with the ColorMunki. ColorMunki's software was fairly buggy, but once I got it installed it worked well, and I was happy with..." Read more

"...The software for this is a little unintuitive in places...." Read more

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Angela A Stanton, PhD
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use and great results
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2012
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I calibrate my monitor quite often to ensure great quality and consistent colors between pictures. In the past I used a competing brand simply because at that time that brand was less expensive and I thought.. well why not! This was several years ago. When the Spider 4 Elite came out, I decided to replace my other brand for a couple of reasons. 1) Way easier to use and 2) it came with a stand to stand next to my monitor at a very easy reach. Now, to elaborate on some of these that were to me important:

1) Easier to use: it is really easy to use. As the other brand, the Spider 4 Elite also comes with an ambient light measure. The difference however is that the other brand measures it and tells you whereas the Spider 4 Elite measures, tells you, AND adjusts the monitor accordingly. I have tested this such that I had my shades pulled open and closed and anywhere in between where I thought the light was to my liking. The Spider 4 Elite told me that forget about opening the shades because the light is out of control! I loved that! Now I know precisely where to keep my shades to be comfortable for me to see my keyboard without interfering with my monitor! LOVE that!

2) The stand... you'd think "no big deal" but yes, it is! The other brand had to sit either on top of the monitor--which made it fall on several occasions--or just lay on the top of my computer desk, in which case it often had things end up on it or knocking it off the desk all together. The Spider 4 Elite comes with its own stand, which places the measuring unit vertically suspended and out of the way but next to the monitor, making it very easy to attach to the monitor and re-calibrate in one second. It also has a blue flashing light letting you know that it is "alive" and is monitoring your ambient light, making adjustments to your monitor such that even if your ambient light changes (within limit), the calibration "follows" to set your monitor brighter or dimmer in response to what light you have in your office. This is great for ongoing minor adjustments so I can keep on working and have consistent results even with some changes in my room light.

And although I did not list a 3rd point earlier, I must add a 3rd: the price has come down to the point where I find the Spider 4 Elite a better deal given the other 2 points I just listed. It can also calibrate my printer, which I have not yet done since I normally send my work to a professional printing lab rather than printing at home.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Works as designed but didn't do what I thought it might
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2013
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Don't buy this because you think your screen will look better.

Buy it, if you do photography work on that screen.

It works good, easy to use.

But I bought it hoping it would make my laptop screen "Better" for non photography work.

It turns out if you use the Built-in Gamma and Clear-Type Calibration in Windows 7/8 it will do some things that this unit also does that will make your screen "Better".

Turns out I like the results from Windows Built in Calibration better than this unit because it's punchier (higher contrast). But this would not be good for photography work.

Make sure you understand what you are buying.

One thing I did find annoying though is the Software will load the calibration for you on boot, but it's very slow. If you remove the software and just keep the calibration loaded it WILL NOT APPLY. This is not the applications fault.

You MUST run Windows built in Calibration ONCE for it to Apply any Calibration Profiles for you.

I'm sure the Datacolor folks know this but they don't explain it or set what every Windows Sets when it's calibration runs so that the calibration with Stick. Without running Datacolors software. They appear to want to make it look like you need their software after you calibrate. You don't, and they provide no help. So that's why they don't get 5 stars.

It runs better, AFTER you remove Datacolor software and run Windows Calibration Once (ideally before Spyder Calibration) so that it will load instantly by Windows itself.
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William D. Murphy
1.0 out of 5 stars Made the picture worse and colors even more innacurate - A review from a someone who knows
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2014
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In the past I have heard plenty of people complain about calibrations including ISF calibrations, because what is accurate doesn't always look the best to the end user which is why your TV isn't perfectly accurate.

I have the privilege of staring at multiple thousand dollar SONY monitors that are specifically made for broadcast stations and they are installed at a broadcast station.

I was not at all expecting accuracy like those monitors but I wanted some improvement.

I bought this thing because I wanted my 2560x1600P IPS monitor to be as accurate as it could be.

I can say this clearly and firmly... either this thing is hit and miss (sometimes working sometimes not) and all I could achieve was misses or it is a complete miss at all times.

It didn't not accurately set the reference brightness level that it said it was trying to achieve and I had the room completely blacked out.

It did not utilize all or even many of the monitors own built in adjustment points which is probably one of the biggest shortcomings of this unit.

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In the end I was left with completely inaccurate everything... but not improved at all. I would have been ok with a picture that had improvements even if it didn't look better (because accuracy rarely looks better) but this left a picture that looked worse and was less accurate.

I had no misconceptions of using an affordable consumer monitor as an accurate printing or proofing monitor I just wanted my daily use monitor to be a little bit better.

This product failed me in every way possible and now I have a $200 paper weight and it is EXACTLY THAT.

It is a paper weight because they have you burn a software license code which makes it worthless or I should say worth less than half since if you sell it you the person buying it will probably have to buy the software which costs $99!

Save your money and save your time... Buy a kit that uses high quality color filters to have you manually make adjustments.
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Scott Gibson
5.0 out of 5 stars To put it simply, this is a remarkable tool which is easy to use and provides excellent results for complex calibration
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2015
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To put it simply, this is a remarkable tool which is easy to use and provides excellent results for complex calibration.
I work as a video editor and have spent the past year with an uncalibrated dual-screen setup (one for workspace, one for preview). My so-called 'Preview' monitor was displaying what I would consider washed out images with barely any dynamic range. This made the screen useless for colour correction or grading and I ended up having to use my workspace screen to do such tasks.

Since buying this new product I have noticed an incredible difference in the representation of colour information on both screens - I calibrated my main display with the simple step-by-step process and then did the same with my secondary monitor. Now when working on both screens I am presented with the same picture on both.

A must buy for any creative professional!
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Cyrille Legorgeu
5.0 out of 5 stars Idéal pour calibrer un écran
Reviewed in France on May 5, 2015
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Facile à installer et à utiliser la Spyder 4 permet de générer un profil icc pour son écran de PC. La calibration est indispensable dès qu'on fait du développement de photo RAW avec Lightroom ou de la retouche avec Photoshop, pour ne pas faire n'importe quoi. Le logiciel speaks French. Il est possible de calibrer un vidéoprojecteur connecté comme moniteur sur un PC. En revanche pour un home cinéma Datacolor propose le kit TVHD qui est une arnaque pour les vidéoprojecteurs HC car on ne peut régler que la luminosité et le contraste. Il vaut mieux utiliser le logiciel HCFR qui reconnait la Spyder 4 comme sonde. Il est beaucoup plus complexe à utiliser mais donne des résultats spectaculaires. Donc avec le même Spyder 4 on peut à la fois utiliser le logiciel Datacolor pour les écran de PC et le logiciel HCFR pour les vidéoprojecteur en utilisation home cinema.
Juste après mon achat Datacolor a sorti la Spyder 5. Merci Amazon de n'avoir pas anticipé l'annonce !
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Christian Morrison
5.0 out of 5 stars Works exactly as it should! REALLY WELL!
Reviewed in Canada on November 9, 2013
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We are using this in our small design practice to profile 2 Macbook Pro Retina laptops and one desktop Mac as well as some Thunderbolt displays. The setup of our studio isn't perfect as far as ambient light goes but this little bugger does its level best to get the displays all giving the same result! I highly recommend this device as the basis for the calibration workflow. Our next job is to start profiling our digital printers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India on March 16, 2015
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Tim S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Die Welt sieht kalibriert anders aus.
Reviewed in Germany on February 6, 2015
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Ich wollte mir schon länger einen eigenen Kalibrierer für meine Monitore bestellen und so nahm ich ein Blitzangebot für den Spyder4Elite wahr, welches ich natürlich umgehend bestellt habe.

Ich drucke viele meiner Fotos von 10x15cm, A4, A3 bis Poster/Leinwand etc. Hier ist mir schon öfters aufgefallen das starke Farb und Helligkeitsunterschiede bestehen. Ein einmaliges kalibrieren mit hilfe eines Gerätes eines Freundes half zwar, jedoch war die Freude nicht sehr lange: Nach ca. 3Monaten fing es von vorne an und wurde immer schlimmer, da offensichtlich der Monitor langsam an Helligkeitsleistung verlor. Ca. 10Tage vor der Bestellung des Spyder4Elite habe ich mir nochden BenQ XL2720Z geholt, der 3Profil schnell Tasten hat, da ich auch einfach so am PC bin und nicht nur Druckfotos mache, ist dies die perfekte Kombination.

Zu Versand und Verpackung: War wie immer sehr sehr schnell. Alles Luftpolsterdicht eingepackt, das nichts kaputt geht.

Zum Spyder4Elite: Ich habe mir die Unterschiede zwischen Elite, Pro und Express ganz genau angeschaut und gemerkt, das es einen haufen Unterschiede zwischen allen 3Versionen gibt. Der Pro reicht eigentlich für das Hobby aus, aber das Angebot war einfach zu verlockend. Die Software ist verständlich und einfach Aufgebaut, man wird Schritt für Schritt durchgeführt. Die Vielfalt der Einstellungen sind nicht schlecht und dank meines Monitors, kann ich auch zwischen Kalibriert und "Normal" switchen. Der Umgebungslichtsensor der erst ab der Pro Version drin ist, zeigt mir wie ich für den Druck das Licht "einstellen" sollte. Das macht nur Sinn wenn man das Umgebungslicht so einstellt wie es immer ist wenn man Bilder für den Druck macht.

Fazit: Eigentlich reicht die Pro Version aus, ich habe jedoch bereits schon mehrere Funktionen der Elite Version ausprobiert, die mehr als Vielversprechend sind. Wer die Chance hat einen Spyder4Elite im Angebot zu ergattern: Holt Ihn euch! Das Preis/Leistungsverhältnis ist der Hammer und spart viel unnötige Tinte und Papier.
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