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Datacolor Spyder5ELITE – Designed for Professional Photographers (S5EL100)

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Screen Size 10.1 Inches
Brand datacolor
Response Time 5 Milliseconds
Color Black
Display Technology LCD

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  • Advanced color accuracy solution for all of your laptop and desktop displays - See, share and print your images just as you intended with confidence. Fast and easy, full calibration takes only about five minutes to ensure color accuracy.
  • Room light monitoring determines optimal monitor brightness so you see fine shadow detail and highlights in your photos, ensuring your edited images match your prints.
  • “Before and After” evaluation of your calibration results using your own photographs, to focus on details that are important to you.
  • Display Analysis feature lets you evaluate and compare the performance of all of your laptop and desktop monitors.
  • In less than five minutes, Spyder5PRO calibrates your monitor to ensure color accuracy and consistency. Not only will photo editing be easier, you will spend less time in the “print-edit-print” cycle and waste less ink and paper.
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Why Calibrate Your Monitor

Most monitors come out of the box with the brightness set too high and with over-saturated colors – plus they degrade over time. Another very important factor to ensure proper image editing and print matching, is having the correct room lighting conditions. Your display is the window into your digital image, you need to be able to trust it. Spyder5 calibrates your display to your environment and to an industry color reference standard to ensure your colors are accurate for better print matching. Your image editing will be easier and faster, you’ll spend less time in the 'print-edit-print' cycle, and you’ll waste less ink and paper.

Top 5 Reasons to Calibrate Your Display

  • Monitors display colors differently.
  • People see colors differently.
  • Prints don’t match your monitor.
  • Image colors are not true to life.
  • Save time and money.

Room Light Monitoring

Spyder5ELITE has an integrated room light sensor that continually measures your unique lighting conditions and alerts you if there's been a change among five ambient light levels. You can then choose to either modify your calibration settings or adjust your room lighting, to assure optimal color accuracy, both on screen and in print.

True Color in A Flash

Spyder5ELITE creates a unique color profile for each of your monitors and adjusts their brightness level based on your room lighting. Say goodbye to time wasted on manually correcting your monitor’s preset settings without success. Now you can see the true colors of your photographs, both on screen and in print. Skin tones will be accurate and the blue sky you shot is going to look blue – not cyan.

Tomorrow's Technology

Next generation Spyder technology comes with a colorimeter that's compact, portable and protected. It includes a dual purpose lens cap and counterweight, and guarantees improved tonal response with the industry's only patented 7-detector optical engine resulting in more accurate shadow detail and smoother gradients.

Easy To Use

Spyder5ELITE’s calibration process is fast and easy. A step-by-step wizard and additional advanced options guide you through the calibration process, then through evaluating your image. Evaluate your monitor’s color accuracy monthly using CheckCAL and then if needed, run ReCAL to recalibrate in minutes. In terms of calibration tools, it doesn’t get any easier.

Personalized ‘Before And After’ With Spyderproof

See the nuances that matter most with a 'Before and After' evaluation of your calibration results in full screen mode using your own photograph, or with a professional Datacolor composite image. The choice is yours. Designed for the way photographers work, SpyderProof gives you confidence that your displays achieve precise color accuracy.

Advanced Control For Matching Multiple Displays

SpyderMatch and SpyderTune are two advanced features that allow you to fine-tune all of your connected monitors by matching Brightness, White Point, and Gamma. These controls give you the ultimate flexibility to make each of your connected monitors look identical. No matter how many monitors you edit your images on, you can be confident that you have the ultimate in color accuracy and your images look the same on all of your connected monitors.

Expert Control

With features like fine-tune gray calibration and unlimited choices for gamma, white point, and luminance, Spyder5ELITE gives you the ultimate control in color calibration resulting in a perfectly calibrated monitor. Whether you use the simple step-by-step wizard or the Expert Console, you can be confident that you are using the best tool available to ensure the colors you see on screen are accurate and your prints match.

Display Analysis

Spyder5ELITE includes a powerful module that lets you fully characterize your monitor, and track its performance over time with reporting. The software allows you to compare gamuts between displays and standard color spaces, analyze and graph luminance and color uniformity, map tone response curves, and measure and graph display accuracy against SpyderCHECKR color targets. These tools give you an easy way to monitor and compare the overall health and performance of your laptop and desktop monitors over time.


System Requirements
  • Windows 7 32/64, Windows 8.0, 8.1 32/64, 10 32/64
  • Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10
  • Monitor resolution 1280x768 or greater, 16-bit video card (24 bit recommended), 1GB of available RAM, 500 MB of available hard disk.
  • Internet connection for software download.
  • USB port

What you get

  • Spyder5 Colorimeter
  • Welcome Card with software download link and warranty registration.
  • Software Serial Number
  • Reusable storage box
Spyder5 EXPRESS Spyder5 PRO Spyder5 ELITE
Spyder5EXPRESS Spyder5PRO Spyder5ELITE
Customer Reviews
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Designed For Hobbyist photographers seeking a simple monitor color calibration solution Serious photographers and designers seeking a full-featured and advanced color accuracy solution Professional photographers, studios, and calibration perfectionists seeking ultimate control of their color workflow
Hardware Calibration Device Spyder5 Colorimeter Spyder5 Colorimeter Spyder5 Colorimeter
Software 4 Step Process & Interactive help Wizard, Interactive Help, Advanced Features Wizard, Interactive Help, Expert Console, Suite of Expert Features
Calibration Settings Fixed (2) 16 Choices Unlimited choices, user-defined, and Rec.709 for videography
Multiple Monitor Support Laptops & Desktop Monitors Laptops & Desktop Monitors Laptops, Desktop Monitors, Front Projectors & Studio Match Assistant
Before & After Calibration Evaluation Standard Datacolor Image Standard Datacolor Image & Imported User Images Standard Datacolor Image & Imported User Images (Full Screen Mode)
Room Light Monitoring None 3 Ambient Light Settings 5 Ambient Light Settings
Fast Recalibration Option None Yes Yes
Display Analysis None Basic Advanced including Screen Uniformity

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Expert color accuracy solution for laptops, desktops and projectors with room light monitoring and unlimited settings for gamma, white point and advanced grey balancing, for ultimate control of your color workflow.

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4 out of 5 stars
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405 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the performance, calibration, and value of the monitor. For example, they mention it works awesome, does a great job calibrating their monitors, and is well worth the money. That said, opinions are mixed on ease of use, color calibration, quality.

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41 customers mention34 positive7 negative

Customers like the performance of the monitor. They say it works awesome, simple, and gives great results. The software is easy to install and works flawlessly on a Windows 7 machine. The product is good to use and is great when using for a computer. However, it won't work on an iPad.

"...The spyder software never crashed; worked the very first try...." Read more

"...it's own, the Spyder5 Elite does what is says it will do, and gives great results...." Read more

"...Pros: Easy to install software works flawlessly on Win7 machine...." Read more

"While a bit expensive for a one trick pony, it works well and is very easy to use...." Read more

20 customers mention14 positive6 negative

Customers like the calibration of the product. For example, they say it does a great job calibrating their monitors, it makes calibration easy, and the accuracy seems quite good. Some mention that the software is simple to use, and it can calibrate two monitors.

"...It definitely worked and calibrated my screen." Read more

"These are absolutely essential for multi-monitor setups...." Read more

"The Spyder5 ELITE did a fairly good job of calibrating my Samsung C32F391 monitor (purchased from Amazon)m but not with out some problems...." Read more

"...And even afterward, I've once found that it calibrated the wrong screen. To make matters worse, the software is often unresponsive...." Read more

10 customers mention7 positive3 negative

Customers appreciate the value of the monitor. They say it's well worth the money, and is offered at a great price point.

"...This Spyder was a good price and so far does a GREAT job. John" Read more

"...This product is offered at a great price point and is less expensive than their competitors." Read more

"...So while the cost is high, i don't regret adding this to my work flow." Read more

"Definitely worth buying. And not terribly difficult to set up even if you are bad at setting up new programs on computers like I am...." Read more

31 customers mention21 positive10 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the ease of use of the monitor. Some mention that it's simple to use, even in its most complex mode, with great results. The directions are thorough, and it takes very little time to adjust all 3 of my attached displays. However, others say that the package is incredibly complex to install and use, and not at all intuitive. The operating instructions are a little confusing at first, and the wizards are clumsy.

"...Wizard made it easy to follow step by step instructions - such as optimizing screen brightness during testing to account for ambient light...." Read more

"While a bit expensive for a one trick pony, it works well and is very easy to use...." Read more

"...The Spyder5 is easy to use and it took very little time to adjust all 3 of my attached displays to the same settings...." Read more

"Multi-Monitor user here on Windows 10: This is a very frustrating piece of tech to work with. The software is unresponsive and often fails to work...." Read more

23 customers mention11 positive12 negative

Customers are mixed about the color calibration of the product. Some mention that it gives them the very best of the best color results, is a good tool for maintaining color balanced, and easily matched their monitors. However, others say that it does not improve their printer color matching, and the new ICM profiles add a color cast that they could not take out.

"...the spyder, there is a noticeable difference and my color gamut is more accurately tuned to NTSC...." Read more

"...taking a picture of my monitor with my phone I noticed that the colors didn’t match which prompted me to get something to calibrate it...." Read more

"...Ability to save multiple color files (e.g. night time with office lights vs. daytime) and can switch between them easily...." Read more

"...I ended up returning it. I just got a new PC and the colors were way off, and I spent hours and hours trying to adjust the display with no luck...." Read more

7 customers mention3 positive4 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the monitor. Some mention it's great quality, solidly built, and well packaged. However, others say that it throws cryptic errors for half of the options, has some glitches, and is majorly inconsistent. The prompts are confusing and sometimes contradictory. It crashes on launch and is clumsily coded.

"...It throws cryptic errors for half of the options. If anything goes wrong, and something will, you will be forced to quit through the task manager...." Read more

"...thing the Datacolor software had going for it was that it was pretty much stupid-proof, took about 10 minutes to install, calibrate, and load the..." Read more

"...It crashes on launch.The product is clumsily codec and based on a 1990's "next > next > finish" software flow...." Read more

"...Very easy to use , Directions are thorough, Solidly built well packaged , I recommend this item." Read more

7 customers mention0 positive7 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the contrast of the monitor. They mention that the software made their monitor display bad, with magenta in dark areas and extremely poor contrast. They also say that it effectively crashed and corrupted the display graphics. Customers also say the gadgets do not improve print quality much at all.

"...I suffer from magenta in dark areas and extremely poor contrast...." Read more

"...Honestly, in my experience, these gadgets do NOT improve print quality much at all...." Read more

"...on an HDMI connected display effectively crashed / corrupted the display graphics - I had to restart my computer to get it back...." Read more

"...The ICM profiles generated by the software just made my monitor display bad...." Read more

4 customers mention0 positive4 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the responsiveness of the monitor. They mention that the software is unresponsive and frustrating. They also say that the included software needs to be improved.

"...the x-rite idisplay pro is extremely lacking- from their barely functional program software, to the faulty sensory hardware that they sent me." Read more

"...The Spyder5 definitely works. But the software is very unpleasant. I'm not looking forward to doing this every month...." Read more

"...Cons:- Reasons why the included software is garbage: * Inaccurate calibration, resulting in a weird beige hue; if you stare at it long..." Read more

"Unit design OK, Software needs to be improved...." Read more

Ok for simple monitor setups.  Terrible for anything else.
2 Stars
Ok for simple monitor setups. Terrible for anything else.
For simple monitor setups, the Spyder and Datacolor software worked ok. The wizards are clumsy, but can effectively - though inconsistently - produce a color profile for a basically connected and setup monitor. If however you are using multiple monitors (connected to a Mac Pro laptop) through HDMI or Thunderbolt, expect issues.Trying to run a "Better" Gray Balance Calibration on an HDMI connected display effectively crashed / corrupted the display graphics - I had to restart my computer to get it back.Trying to calibrate multiple monitors connected to my Mac via daisy-chained Thunderbolt connections left the software unusable. It crashes on launch.The product is clumsily codec and based on a 1990's "next > next > finish" software flow. It does little to give you visibility into the color performance a your monitors and environments. Getting meaningful insights from the software requires multiple clumsy cycles of wizard iteration and reading moderately effective help documents.Opening a support case doesn't help much. The support team either lacks the skills or interest in troubleshooting the datacolor software. Their troubleshooting methods when dealing with the application crashes amounted to "try this... try this... try this...". They never once requested logs or data involving the source or cause of the crash - even when I suggested it and offered them to them. They really were not interested in troubleshooting their product. They assume there is something wrong with your computer, even when everything else on your computer - especially and including your monitors - are otherwise working perfectly.
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hobby-t
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple and great.
Reviewed in Canada on September 12, 2017
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5.0 out of 5 stars easy to use
Reviewed in India on January 17, 2019
Mr. Michael Simms
5.0 out of 5 stars Great little gadget which really improved on the outdated manufacturer colour profile for my monitor
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Mr. Michael Simms
5.0 out of 5 stars Great little gadget which really improved on the outdated manufacturer colour profile for my monitor
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2018
I have a Dell S2716DG revision A09 G-Sync Monitor manufactured in July 2018. On the Dell website the only colour profile available for this monitor model is dated 2015. It is of course way out since there have been many panel revisions since then (hence A09). Delivered the monitor was 349cd and 2.34 gamma according to the Spyder5.

This Spyder5 is excellent, I particularly found the room light meter on it's top handy. While aiming for sRGB which is not 100% possible with this TN monitor I got it to 98% compliance and 0.01 from 2.20 gamma and spot on 120cd brightness. There's also less banding through greyscale. I used the advanced settings and extended grey tuning function. It did take quite a lot of experimentation and tweaking to get the end result. You can of course use quick calibration, I did try that first and while very good compared to the standard monitor setup it it's not quite good enough with higher brightness and lower gamma results. It is worth spending the time using this package to it's full extent to get a proper result you are happy with.

I'm not too bothered about that last 2% as I rarely edit photos and predominantly game anyhow. Colour calibration helps me with editing game textures in Photoshop and making sure they don't look rubbish for everyone else.
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Federyko
5.0 out of 5 stars Semplice da usare ed estremamente efficace
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