Get all the details in our full review. These capable cameras should be solid and well-built, have both speed and focus for capturing fast action and offer professional-level image quality. Although a lot of people only upload images to Instagram from their smartphones, the app is much more than just a mobile photography platform.
In this guide we've chosen a selection of cameras that make it easy to shoot compelling lifestyle images, ideal for sharing on social media. If you're looking for the perfect drone for yourself, or to gift someone special, we've gone through all of the options and selected our favorites. We looked at cameras with selfie-friendly screens, wide-angle lenses, microphone inputs and great video quality, and selected the best.
Submit a News Tip! Reading mode: Light Dark. Login Register. Best cameras and lenses. All forums PC Talk Change forum. Started Jun 22, Discussions. Forum Threaded view. Jun 22, If it's no good, what would people recommend instead? Or if I would benefit from more functionality, I'd like to understand how, exactly. Reply to thread Reply with quote Complain.
Reply Reply with quote Reply to thread Complain. Pictus wrote: The Spyper3 uses organic filter that maybe already aged and they are also not made for LED backlights. Morris0's gear list: Morris0's gear list. F Forum M My threads. Latest sample galleries. Tamron mm F2. Panasonic S 35mm F1. DJI Mavic 3 Cine sample gallery.
Nikon Z9 pre-production sample gallery. See more galleries ». Testing it here provides a comparison of actual monitor mea IRE is actually a term from Home Theater and should not be used in this graph. Tone Response is a graph of the Output Luminance of the monitor in candelas -v Most are specialty targets for video work.
Basically, if you aren't familiar with the name of a target, then you probably have no need for it. What is the Curves Window? Spyder3Elite can show curves in two places: when choosing a new gamma target, you can choose custom, and define a curve as a target for unique calibration needs, such as matching a video editing system or film writer. The second set of curves is in the To Spyder3 comes with a removable suction cup. Should I use this cup No, you shouldn't. This suction cup has been added to the package to calibrate a CRT type monitor.
You can easily do thi I recently attempted to use Spyder3Elite to profile my Canon inkj Perhaps you replaced one or more ink cartridges at the same time? This review discusses the Spyder3Elite. It adds the following software features to the Spyder3Pro:. The original Spyder left , the Spyder2 right and the smaller Spyder3 center. The system requirements are rather modest, supporting Mac OS X Your color monitor's resolution should be x or higher with a bit video card but you have a bit card, no doubt.
The Spyder3 sports a new built-in ambient light sensor. Initial calibration takes five minutes and the new ReCAL option only 2. The Spdyer3 can be mounted via its removable suction cup, with a counterweight or a tripod mount for projection systems. The USB cable is integrated into the device which includes a cradle and a two year hardware warranty.
Both monitor calibration software with an extensive Expert mode and a utility to monitor ambient light are included with the Spyder3, which sports a new LED status indicator now. The LED remains illuminated when your system goes to sleep. A Quick Start Guide and screen cleaning packets are also included. Installation is pretty straightforward. You 1 install the software, 2 plug in the Spyder3 and 3 launch the software. The Quick Start Guide steps you through that, adding that after calibration, you can 4 have the Spyder3 monitor your profiles and ambient light.
But there are a couple of other things you might do before that. The first is to clean your monitor. Datacolor provides a two-step Klear Screen wet and dry screen cleaner to do that. The other thing is to let your monitor warm up. CRTs take about 30 minutes to stabilize while LCDs are ready in just a few minutes but it doesn't hurt to wait half an hour. Make sure no direct light is falling on your monitor. Monitoring Ambient Light.
Very high ambient light being monitored by the Spyder3. Note the blue LED, which remains lit when you put your system to sleep. You should also decide whether you want to use the suction cup or the weight to hold the Spyder3 to the surface of your screen.
We were able to angle our screens so gravity did as well as the suction cup. We don't like sticking anything to our screen. Finally, make sure you've disabled any screen saver.
You don't want the calibration process interrupted by your screen saver just as the last measurements are being made. During the software installation, Datacolor installs Spyder Utility as a Startup Item on your system. Spyder Utility makes sure your display profiles and their matching calibration data are loaded at startup for each calibrated display.
It also checks that they are still in use including the more stringent Spyder Certification standards, if applicable during your session. Spyder Utility's main job is to adjust monitor brightness to compensate for ambient light to the extent that's feasible. You can access it directly from within Spyder3Elite, the calibration program. The age of your monitor is not an insignificant factor, to put it gently. Monitors in use for over five years may profit much from calibration, but that doesn't mean they're capable of correctly displaying the full gamut of colors that a new monitor would.
The Spyder's job is to measure what your monitor is doing and profile it so the specified color is displayed but if your monitor can no longer display that color say the green gun is shot , no profile is going to make it display it.
Spyder Certification is an option you can enable during the calibration process that will let Spyder Utility check a number of conditions to confirm your monitor is within the parameters defined for certification or report which parameters are out of spec.
Once you've installed the Spyder software and connected the Spyder itself to your USB port a hub is fine , you're ready to calibrate and profile. There's no need to disable any currently active profile. Calibration, as the Help file explains, keeps your monitor in a consistent state so that it displays colors in the same way, day after day, month after month. Once the software knows how the display is behaving, it can correct it by loading correction curves into the video card or sometimes the monitor itself , to produce a smooth tone curve and neutral greys.
This step also adjusts the monitor to the gamma setting and color temperature that you want. The sRGB standard uses gamma 2. With the display producing smooth tones and neutral greys, the software can create a color profile describing the display's color characteristics. Programs like Adobe Photoshop can use display profiles to compensate for the known quirks of a display device, and insure accurate color rendering. It isn't hard to make the physical connection between the Spyder and your monitor.
But what often isn't appreciated -- with any hardware calibration device -- is the consequences of the choices you make in the software itself. These can, frankly, invalidate the process. That's why having a user-friendly calibration program is essential. A lot is made of the hardware but how you use the software can make or break the profile. So what did we think about the software?
0コメント