You asked and we’re delivering some hot new features just for you, with the richest feature set we have ever offered! New 4.0 features include monitor quality analyzer, display graphing compared to sRGB & Adobe RGB, enhanced iterative gray balancing and automated brightness adjustment.

Designed for:
Professional Photographers, Photography Studios and Professional users of all kinds.

Features & Benefits

• New Monitor Quality Analyzer: gives you the tools to find out just how good your display actually is; and compare it to other displays using easy-to-read maps of your screen’s uniformity, allowing you to determine which areas of your screen are precise enough for the most demanding work
• New Display Graph: allows you to compare the gamut of multiple displays to one another, as well as to standard color spaces like sRGB and AdobeRGB. This helps you understand what colors your display can reproduce
• New Iterative Gray Balance Option: the most accurate gray balance algorithm available. This gives you the best gray calibration for your display
• New Software Brightness Control: allows owners of iMac and other displays with limited controls to work with these displays in more desirable, dimmer environments, and to match them to other displays
• New Automated Brightness Adjustment: means users no longer need to adjust front panel controls on Apple Cinema Displays, iMacs, MacBooks or PowerBooks. All brightness adjustments on these screens are done automatically by Spyder software
• Front Projector Calibration Option: gives you confidence that all your presentations will look their very best
• Intelligent Ambient light Control:automatically measures the ambient light within a room to determine optimal conditions for a new level of precision calibration
• StudioMatch Assistant:the best possible match on your entire studio so you can rely on consistent and accurate color and luminance on all your displays

Hardware Specifications

• Measurement Device: Datacolor Spyder3™
• Ambient Light Sensor (Built In): Yes
• Number of Filter/Detector Combination: 7 Filter/Detector Technology
• Accuracy (x,y typical): 0.0025
• Aperture Size: 27 mm Diameter
• Initial Calibration Time: 5 Minutes
• Recalibration Time: 2.5 Minutes
• Ambient Light Shield: 2 Inches
• Mounting Methods: Universal Suction Cup, Universal Counterweight and Tripod Mount
• Desktop Docking Base w/Tripod Mount: Yes
• Physical Dimensions: 1.5 in.(D) x 3.5 in.(W) x 4 in.(L)
• Computer Connection: USB
• Hardware Warranty: One Year

What You Get

• Datacolor Spyder3™ colorimeter
• Desktop Cradle/Tripod mount
• Spyder3Elite™ Software CD
• Screen Cleaning Packets
• Quick Start Guide
• One-Year Warranty

Requirements

• Windows XP 32/64, Vista 32/64
• Mac OS X (10.3 or higher)
• USB
• Color monitor resolution 1024x768 or greater
• 16-bit video card (24-bit recommended)
• 128MB of available RAM
• 100MB of available hard disk space