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This redesigned colorimeter takes the pain out of calibrating your monitor.
Color management is a little like flossing your teeth-you know you're supposed to do it, but you really, really don't want to. Back in October, I reviewed X-Rite's expensive but effective iiPhoto XT package, and while I admired how easy it was to manage color across my entire workflow using that spectrophotometer-driven system-from my monitor to my printer to even my camera and my projector-its high price ($2,695) may have put it out of range for some photographers. Spectrophotometers don't come cheap.
If you feel you don't need all the firepower of a spectrophotometer and just want to calibrate your monitor, Datacolor's Spyders Elite is a firstrate colorimeter kit. I had used the Spyder2 model several years ago to calibrate a rather junky Dell monitor I really should've thrown in the trash. The Spyder2 did the best job it could calibrating that old Dell (Dell displays have actually come a long way in the last several years), but I found the process of using it to create an ICC profile for...