Datacolor Spyder Essential Colorimeter

Features

Designed for photographers, content creators, and digital designers of all skill levels, the Spyder Essential Colorimeter from Datacolor is a monitor calibration tool for today's digital workflows. It lets your monitor accurately portray images that you capture, create, edit, and view. Calibrating a monitor allows for a color-accurate starting point for editing, allowing users to express their creative vision and share their work, digitally and in print.

Portable and rugged, not only does Spyder let users streamline their workflow for photo, content creation, and digital design, it also calibrates a wide range of monitors, including Wide and Standard gamut LED, OLED, Mini LED, Apple Liquid Retina XDR, and more, optimizing color richness, deep shadows, highlights, and enhanced details.

Device Preview Beta and Calibration Features

Thanks to Datacolor's Device Preview Beta, users will see how their images may look on other devices without needing to use the actual devices. Instead, choose from a profile option for a smartphone, tablet, or other device. This may also be used to soft proof and preview how prints will look for a specific printer model, paper and ink, and print service provider by using an ICC printer profile. Also featured are one-click calibration presets that can help achieve professional results.

Color Confidence That's Fast and Easy

Spyder lets you easily calibrate your monitor in only about 90 seconds, so you can be confident that you're beginning your editing from an accurate color starting point, saving you valuable time and effort in your editing workflow. The result? True-to-life color and fine detail capture.

Professional Results for Every Experience Level

Intuitive software and one-click calibration ensure ease of use and professional results for even the most novice user, while customizable calibration settings allow experienced professionals creative flexibility.

Calibration for Today's Digital Workflows

Spyder now calibrates an even wider range of laptop/desktop displays, including the latest technologies like OLED, mini-LED, and Apple Liquid Retina XDR, so that users can optimize the color richness, deep shadows, nuanced highlights, and enhanced details these monitors make available. Spyder calibrates wide and standard LED gamuts as well.

Color "Surprises" Are a Thing of the Past!

With Datacolor's exclusive Device Preview Beta feature, you'll be able to simulate what your photos can look like on other devices on your own calibrated screen without uploading them to other devices for preview. Device Preview Beta also allows you to soft proof your image in print so you can view how your image will appear on paper.

Adapt to Shifts in Light

Automatic Room Light Switching measures and tracks the lighting around you to make sure your current display profile is the one best suited for your environment. Not every task requires controlled lighting so allowing Spyder to adapt the calibration to your room lighting will ensure your monitor profile is optimal. During a Room Light Calibration, multiple profiles are created for different room lighting levels.

Use CheckCal for Confidence

CheckCal is Datacolor's answer to the question, "Is my calibration still valid?" CheckCal performs a short test on your monitor to verify your calibration is up to date.

Keep Connected

• A native USB-C connection comes standard with the Spyder, along with an additional USB-A adapter for added convenience when needed.

Specifications

General

USB Connection

Integrated USB-C Cable

Max Luminance

~750 nits

Backlight Types

Wide LED, Standard LED, General (Wide and Standard CCFL), GB LED, OLED, Mini LED

Gamma Curve Settings

5

Whitepoint Settings

5

Brightness Settings

60
80
90
100
120
140
160
180
250
Do Not Adjust

Room-Light Adjustment

Display Analysis / MQA

Limited

Number of Displays Supported

Intended for 1, Can Calibrate Multiple Connected Displays

Supported Languages

English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean

System Requirements

Windows 10 (32-/64-Bit) and Windows 11
macOS 10.14 to 14
Monitor Resolution 1280 x 768 or Greater, 16-Bit Video Card (24-Bit Recommended), 1 GB of Available RAM, 500 MB of Available Hard Disk Space
Internet Connection for Software Download and Activation

Inputs / Outputs

USB I/O

1 x USB-C Integrated Male Input/Output

Power

Power Source

USB (Built-In)

DC Input Power

5 VDC

Operating Current

100 mA

Environmental

Certifications

CSA, C-Tick, CE

Operating Temperature

41 to 104°F / 5 to 40°C

Operating Humidity

80%

Physical

Color

White

Dimensions

3 x 3 x 1.75" / 7.6 x 7.6 x 4.45 cm

Weight

0.32 lb / 0.15 kg