Inexpensive household monitor calibrator

Question

Iron

Tell me, who has experience with similar devices - which model is better to buy? The application is purely domestic - no professional photography and the like. Printers, projectors, etc. do not need to be calibrated. Both for Windows and for OS X. Monitors are decent everywhere - MVA. The budget is about 5000 rubles.

Answer 1

You can try X-Rite ColorMunki Smile market.yandex.ru/search.xml?text=ColorMunki+Smile
But the software that comes with it is too simple. You will need to learn Argyll CMS and gui DispCalGUI to it.
In practice, as already mentioned, it is not possible to calibrate 2 different monitors normally even with more expensive devices. But you can try.
Argyll is also cross-platform and with it you can associate icc / icm files with monitors in any OS, native tools or the Argyll bootloader.
By the way, not just a monitor is calibrated, but a pair of video card-monitor. On another computer, a calibrated monitor will lie.
Before calibrating and creating a profile, using the same Smile buttons on the monitor, you can pretty well set the monitors to the same temperature and brightness, which in some cases is quite tolerable. This process, one way or another, is done at the very beginning and is called characterization.

Answer 2

datacolor spyder 4 express, well, or pro, it's a little more advanced

Answer 3

ColorHug won't work? www.hughski.com/

Answer 4

And why is the software for calibration not suitable for such requirements?

Answer 5

If there are two monitors on one computer, then make sure that the calibrator can work with them - spyders of the express series can only calibrate one monitor.