Datacolor SpyderX Capture Pro Kit

SpyderX Capture Pro
The ultimate color management tool kit, providing all the essentials needed to precisely manage color in your workflow from capture through editing.

- Spyder LensCal -
The Datacolor SpyderLensCal Autofocus Calibration Aid is a focus test chart, designed for use with select DSLRs that support autofocus adjustment. The chart allows you to test the autofocus accuracy of your camera - making it easy to fine-tune it for optimum performance.

The SpyderLensCal features a built-in level and tripod mount, allowing you to create precise testing environments. Cameras that support autofocus adjustments include the Canon 50D, 7D, 5D Mk II, 1D Mk III, 1D Mk IV, and 1Ds Mk III, the Nikon D300, D300s, D700, D3, D3s, and D3x, Sony A850 and A900, the Olympus E-30 and E-620, and the Pentax K20D, K-7, and K-5.

Features
• Fast, easy solution for your interchangeable lenses and recent DSLR bodies provides razor-sharp auto-focusing, using modern DSLR autofocus micro-adjustment technology
• Compact, lightweight and durable, with integrated level and tripod mount, making this the most convenient way to adjust your own camera gear
• Save time and hassle of sending your equipment in for service. Now you can check or calibrate your own lenses
• Accurate and repeatable calibration of your lenses and recent DSLR bodies
• worthwhile investment to ensure your camera is focusing your lenses as precisely as possible

- Spyder Cube -
Datacolor's SpyderCube 3D Cube for RAW Color Calibration is a compact (1.5" (3.8cm square) - digital color balancing tool that not only allows you to correct the color 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 gray 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/gray 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 colors are accurate, your shadows and highlights are properly exposed and your image is adjusted to the ideal density, regardless of the lighting conditions.

Features
• Reference tool to achieve accurate colors without trial-and-error operations in RAW processing
• SpyderCube provides all relevant light information for the RAW adjustments
• 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 color without a lot of trial and error manipulation
• Spectrally Neutral, so that 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 color images by setting color temperature value
• Allows users to accurately adjust shadows and highlight detail in any RAW image

- Spyder Checkr -
The Datacolor SpyderCheckr Color Calibration Tool is a color target for use with digital cameras. It features 48 swatches, including various shades of gray and skintones. You can use the swatches to perform a custom white balance on your camera, ensuring that your camera settings correctly match the lighting conditions in which you are shooting. The SpyderCheckr ships with software for Mac and Windows. In order to use it, you'll have to use an Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) post-production workflow. This allows you to use the calibration tool in conjunction with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop lightroom.

Features
• Consistent Color Control for your RAW workflow made easy and fast with SpyderCheckr and its powerful software, giving you a color standard for any camera and decreasing your post production time
• Neutral Gray target & Gray ramp for in-camera white balance and visual neutrality analysis
• Extensive skintone samples for portrait & fashion photography
• Durable, eco-friendly self casing construction for easy transport and field use, with replaceable targets, tripod mount and Fade strip indicator
• Easy-to-use software interacts with Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Camera Raw to produce calibration presets, which fit directly into your digital workflow; No DNG processing required, multiple lightsource calibration option included

- SpyderX Elite -
Designed for expert and professional photographers and motion image makers looking for the most comprehensive monitor calibration tool, giving them ultimate control of their color workflow.

Featuring expert customization options that give professional photographers ultimate control.

Groundbreaking
As long as you're out there chasing a better shot, we'll be looking for ways to make sure you get it. That's why we spent the last 3 years creating the completely new lens-based color engine technology featured in SpyderX.

Fastest
Calibrate your monitor in under two minutes. With SpyderX, monitor calibration happens so fast you won't even consider skipping it, and your colors will always be as accurate as possible.

Most Accurate
Our new lens-based technology provides a higher level of color accuracy with more precise screen color, shadow detail and white balance. With SpyderX, you can be sure that what you see is what you get.

Easiest to Use
You don't have to be a color expert to achieve high-quality color on your monitors. Our software is intuitive to use, from quick and easy single-click calibration to even the most advanced control options.

Why you should calibrate your monitor?
Photography is a labor of love, and we know a lot goes into every shot you take. Don't let an uncalibrated monitor get in the way of achieving your vision.

With SpyderX, you can be sure that what you see on screen is the most accurate representation of the shot you took. When you start editing and you know the color on your monitor is accurate, you can confidently control every aspect of your image. And when it's time to print, your output will match what you are seeing on screen and better reflect your creative vision.

What makes SpyderX the best Spyder ever?

Superior Colorimeter Technology
Based on years of research, SpyderX is a completely new, more accurate way of measuring color. Our groundbreaking lens-based color engine technology features higher light sensitivity and more advanced sensors, so you can experience significantly more precise screen color, white balance and shadow detail.

Intutive Software
Whether you are looking for a quick calibration or an expertly customized color profile, SpyderX gives you easy-to-use solutions. SpyderX Elite offers these modes plus an Expert Console mode with unlimited calibration choices. Both Spyder models feature interactive help every step of the way.

Calibrate All of your Monitors
SpyderX allows you to calibrate multiple laptops and desktop monitors and supports the latest display technologies, so you can be confident that your colors are always accurate no matter which of your computers or displays you are working on. SpyderX Elite can also calibrate front projectors and features StudioMatch, which creates a target that is shareable between attached displays and other computers.

Spyderproof
With our SpyderProof feature, you'll see the difference right before your eyes. Just one click allows you to compare your monitor colors before and after calibration and see the nuances that matter most. Try it with a Datacolor composite image or upload your own favorite photos. With SpyderX Elite, you can even see images full screen.

Room Lighting Monitoring
SpyderX features an integrated ambient light sensor that can measure your room light throughout the day allowing you to adjust your display brightness and contrast to ideal levels. The software can either warn you to recalibrate or do it automatically using custom profiles based on light level. SpyderX Elite feature 5 levels of ambient light adjustment.

Monitor Performance Analysis
It's important to know how your monitors perform during color-critical work. With the SpyderX Display Analysis feature, you can better understand the color, brightness, contrast, gamut, tone response and white point of your monitors. With SpyderX Elite, you can also check screen brightness and color uniformity and display color accuracy.

Softproof Features with SpyderX Elite
Your on-screen images may look different when you print or view them on other devices such as tablets. Softproof, only available with SpyderX Elite, lets you simulate and view these changes on your calibrated screen. For printers, you can see how prints will look for a specific printer model, paper and ink, and upload ICC printer profiles

Features
• SpyderX Elite Expert Monitor Calibration
• Fast & easy calibration modes
• Supports calibration of multiple displays
• Can adjust for room light changes
• Shows before & after comparison of display