Datacolor Spyder Photovideo Kit

Take charge of light with the Datacolor Spyder Lightcolor Meter! This pocket-sized wizard measures ambient light, color temperature, and intensity for spot-on exposures every time. Perfect for photos, video, or studio setups, it’s your secret weapon for flawless consistency. Simple, portable, and built to streamline your workflow, it banishes guesswork with Spyder’s proven precision. Don’t let bad lighting dim your brilliance—grab this essential tool now and make every shot a masterpiece!

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Designed for a wide range of digital creatives of all skill levels, including those working in photography, videography, content creation, digital design, and more, is a monitor calibration tool for today's digital workflows. It lets your monitor accurately portray images you capture, create, edit, and view. Calibrating a monitor allows for a colour-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 SpyderPro 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, high brightness displays, and more, optimizing colour richness, deep shadows, highlights, enhanced details, and brightness. Thanks to SpyderPro's StudioMatch and Spyder Tune, you'll be able to ensure colour continuity across multiple monitors, whether using one or more computers.

Also featured is Datacolor's Device Preview Beta, which lets users 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. Other functionalities include Advanced Display Mapping & Analysis, Gamma Curve Adjustment, Automatic Room Light Switching, Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 gamut coverage, one-click calibration presets, and more.

• SpyderPro Advanced Colorimeter
• Spyder Checkr Video Color Chart
• Spyder Checkr Photo Color Chart
• SpyderCUBE RAW Calibration Tool
• Measures up to 2000 nits of Brightness
• Supports a Wide Range of Monitors
• Display Calibration System
• Precise Screen Color and White Balance
• Expanded Sensor Capability
• Windows and Mac Compatible

Colour Confidence That's Fast and Easy

SpyderPro 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 colour starting point, saving you valuable time and effort in your editing workflow. The result? True-to-life colour 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. Additionally, unlimited calibration settings like fully customizable gamma curves, white point, and brightness settings allow for advanced colour control for a truly customized workflow that experienced professionals will appreciate.

Calibration for Today's Digital Workflows

SpyderPro now calibrates an even wider range of laptop/desktop and projector displays, including the latest technologies like OLED, mini-LED, and Apple Liquid Retina XDR so users can optimize the colour richness, deep shadows, nuanced highlights, and enhanced details of these monitors make available. Additionally, it calibrates Wide and Standard LED gamuts, while affording workflow adaptability, allowing you to work in even the brightest conditions with its high brightness feature. Working on the go with multiple portable displays attached to a single computer? The SpyderTune feature lets you adjust white point, gamma, and brightness for visual fine-tuning for the best consistency across multiple displays.

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.

Patchwork Color: OK for Quilts, Not Digital Viewing

Multiple cameras and monitors, shifts in lighting, days of shooting, splicing footage - if your monitor's colour isn't consistent, neither is your visual story. SpyderPro's StudioMatch feature allows for side-by-side calibration for multiple computers/displays, ensuring consistent, accurate colour reproduction across multiple connected monitors or computers.

Video & Cinema Color You Can Count On

SpyderPro's Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 targets ensure colours will be accurate so you can be confident that colours and images will translate properly across the production workflow, from editing and post-production to transmission, streaming, and final display. Rec. 709 is the most commonly used standard today, while Rec. 2020's wider colour gamut will let you deliver content that is more lifelike for a truly immersive experience for your audience.

Get the "Big Picture" of Your Picture

The Advanced Display Mapping & Analysis feature of SpyderPro gives you detailed information about your monitor. You can check colour/colour uniformity, brightness, contrast, gamut, tone response, display accuracy, and white point of your monitors to track colour accuracy and consistency.

Details Come Out from the Shadows

SpyderPro's Gamma Curve Adjustment feature lets you refine tone distribution (how seamlessly black transitions to white). Gradations are enhanced so shadow and light details remain crisp and clear. You can also balance your display's brightness settings based on your location and needs, for precise colour accuracy to capture every detail.

Customizable Calibration for Your Needs

SpyderPro offers unlimited calibration settings for fully customized calibration for all workflows. Fine-tune the gamma, white point, and brightness settings for any need. There's also a preset list of the most common calibration targets, including those for video standards and StudioMatch. Willing to spend a bit more time on a more sophisticated calibration? Choose Better in Grey Balance in the calibration settings for smoother gradients. Pressed for time? Opt for the Faster setting.

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.

Calibration as Bright as Your Environment

Some modern monitors have brightness levels for use outdoors or in other highly illuminated settings. SpyderPro's High Brightness calibration setting balances these monitors when working in a bright environment for an accurate reference.

Keep Connected

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

Datacolor SpyderCUBE RAW Calibration Tool

TheSpyderCUBE RAW Calibration Tool from Datacoloris a compact (1.5"/3.8 cm square), digital colour balancing tool that not only allows you to correct the colour temperature but also the exposure, brightness and black point of your images. The SpyderCUBE is a spectrally neutral three-dimensional tool that's small enough to fit in your pocket or camera bag and gives you all the features needed to easily adjust your images in post-production. Its multi-sided construction allows special attention to highlights and shadows and contains more features for image control than a grey card or white balance tool.

Just place the SpyderCUBE in the lighting conditions under which you will be photographing. Orient the cube so that the lower black face, containing the black trap, is at the bottom front, and the two split white/grey faces are both visible. Take a photograph that includes the Cube. It makes several measurements that make it possible for you to be confident that your colours are accurate, your shadows and highlights are properly exposed, and your image is adjusted to the ideal density, regardless of the lighting conditions. These functions give you the data you need:

1 Chrome Ball - Measures catchlight to analyze specular highlights.
2 White Face(s) - Define highlights in relation to catchlight.
3 Gray Face(s) - Measures colour temperature and mid tone response.
4 Black Face - Defines shadows in relation to black trap.
5 Black Trap - Defines absolute black.

By using SpyderCUBE under the same lighting conditions as your photos, you can optimally adjust all the
photos in RAW conversion using the information the Spyder 3D shot provides. The SpyderCUBE is easy enough for the advanced amateur and sophisticated enough for professionals.

Reference tool to achieve accurate colours without trial-and-error operations in RAW processing.

SpyderCUBE provides all relevant light information for the RAW adjustments:

* Chrome Ball to measure catchlight to analyze overexposed areas.

* White Faces to define highlights in relation to catchlight.

* Spectrally neutral 18% Grey Faces to measure colour temperature and mid-tones in all lighting conditions.

* Black Trap to define absolute black.

* Black Face to define shadows in relation to black trap.

Easy to use and compatible with all RAW converter software.

Essential for RAW processing but can also be used when processing images in a JPG workflow.

Small and handy, it fits in any photo bag

Ideal for location shooting (outdoor or indoor) and studios

Capture accurate colour without a lot of trial and error manipulation

Spectrally Neutral, so that the Cube responds accurately to all lighting conditions

Provides reference values to check and adjust RAW control settings

Includes Black Trap for shadow detail control

Allows users to instantly correct colour images by setting colour temperature value

Allows users to accurately adjust shadows and highlight detail in any RAW image

Datacolor SCV310 Spyder Checkr Video Color Chart

Ideal for videographers, professional filmmakers, and content creators, the Datacolor Spyder Checkr Video Color Chart is a pocket-sized, professional colour reference system comprised of five interchangeable high-gloss video targets. To help ensure colour accuracy and consistency across a range of cameras and lenses, Spyder Checker Video works with vectorscopes, waveform monitors, and professional video editing software. The glossy cards allow for high colour saturation, wider colour gamut, and easier flare identification. The ergonomic design of the case ensures a secure grip and minimizes shadows from your hands or fingers.

Colour Pattern Card

The colour pattern card uses Datacolor's new patent-pending design to help make colour correction, using vectorscopes, easier to understand. The colour card is developed for Rec.709 colour space.

New Vectorscope Diagram

Each colour has two patches at different saturation levels (75% and 100%). Adjust the hue and saturation levels for each colour so that they match the boxes.

Traditional Color Patch Card

The traditional colour card generates a "star" design in a vectorscope with the two saturation levels lying on one line.

Grayscale Card

This card is designed to give accurate reference points for both exposure and contrast levels. It contains two 11-step grayscale bars, and one Glossy White, 50% Gray, and Black box pattern. When isolated, the three large bars provide a quick reference for exposure, while the stair-step pattern helps prevent clipping issues.

Compact and Versatile

• Pocket-sized with a durable, protective case, you can carry it in your pocket or photo bag
• Cards are made from 100% acid-free cotton, a renewable resource for paper
• Targets can be replaced and/or interchanged with cards from Spyder Checkr Photo for enhanced customization
• Seamlessly integrates with third-party video editing software

Datacolor SCK310 Spyder Checkr Photo Color Chart

Ensure colour-accurate photos from capture through print with the SCK310 Spyder Checkr Photo Color Chart from Datacolor. With four interchangeable cards and 62 colour targets, you'll be able to achieve colour consistency across a variety of cameras, lenses, and sensor combinations. The color chart features ultra-matte color target cards delivering rich colours and low reflectivity for truer color calibration in any lighting situation. The rigid outer casing and sturdy card construction offer excellent product protection for on-the-go/on-location shoots.

The SCK310 Spyder Checkr Photo Color Chart is an updated version of the SCK300 with the only difference being an updated ergonomic case that's easy to grip and made to minimize handling errors. Sized to fit in your pocket or in your camera bag, this photo colour chart provides easy access.

Spyder Checkr Software

A software download link is provided, which automatically colour-corrects your images and creates an HSL preset for you to use with raw editing software such as Adobe Camera RAW, Adobe Lightroom, and Hasselblad Phocus. This enables fast and seamless color correction, plus precise in-camera white balance allowing you to streamline your post-production workflow by calibrating color at the point of image capture.

Features and Benefits

• Portable and perfectly sized to fit inside your camera bag or in your pocket.
• Rigid outer casing and unique, sturdy card construction offer superior product protection for on-the-go/on-location shoots.
• Four interchangeable cards featuring robust 62-color targets.
• The expanded skin tone offering makes the colour checker ideal for portraiture.
• Expanded grey scale and large grey balance targets allow for greater depth and detail in images.
• The ultra-matte finish on long-lasting, ink-printed paper cards allows for the truest colour renditions and deepest black.
• Cards are made from 78% bamboo, a renewable resource for paper.
• Easy to replace and add new cards as colour offerings expand for truly customizable solutions.
• Seamlessly integrates with 3rd party software such as Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Camera RAW, and Hasselblad Phocus

Use Cases

• Wedding/event photography: match multiple camera systems.
• Macro photography: correctly determine colour dominance and accent colours.
• Fashion photography: Maintain colour accuracy from original capture to print.
• Architectural photography: precise colour reproduction.
• Studio/product photography: exact matches for product and brand colours.
• Portraiture: natural and accurate-looking skin tones.

Supported Languages

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

The Datacolor Spyder Photovideo Kit comes with a full Datacolor Australia warranty.

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