In most cases this difference won't matter because 0.028 is more than adequate to measure 5% grayscale. However, it must be noted that the Spyderx's low-light sensitivity is still considerably inferior to the X-Rite i1Display Pro, which can read as low as about 0.0025 nits in its optimum mode. The low-light sensitivity of the SpyderX is more than 10 times better than the Spyder5. The SpyderX's accuracy is comparable to the i1Display Pro. With respect to color accuracy, the two meters measured the same. At 10% and above the Spyder5 is actually slightly more accurate than the SpyderX. Because the SpyderX benefits from substantially improved low-light sensitivity, the bulk of the Spyder5 color error is in the 5% reading. However, this result is a little misleading. For this test I did not consider color performance.Īs you can see, the SpyderX's grayscale accuracy is substantially better than the Spyder5. Finally, I noted the lowest point at which the meter would continue to return reasonably consistent luminance measurements. For this test I used the Accupel 6000 test pattern generator and the 2018 LG OLED. To evaluate low-light sensitivity I measured subsequently lower grayscale values starting at 8% with each meter stepping down one 8-bit code value at a time. Finally, I took note of how much time was required to measure the entire list of 95 grayscale values. To evaluate speed I imported a custom list of colors into ChromaPure's Raw data module, which were just the grayscale in 1% increments from 100% down to 5%. Finally I compared the x and y values of each set of measurements. Next, I repeated the measurements after correcting a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter with the Colorimetry Research CR-300 reference spectroradiometer. However, speed and low-light sensitivity are baked into the colorimeter's design and nothing can be done about either without reengineering the device.įor color accuracy I simply measured 11-point grayscale and the primary and secondary colors with each meter. Of these color accuracy is the least important, because color errors can always be corrected by a better instrument. To be clear, the SpyderX performs substantially better than all previous Spyder instruments.Ĭolorimeter performance is defined by three criteria: color accuracy, low-light sensitivity, and speed. DataColor has now released the next generation of Spyder colorimeters, the SpyderX. Sure, DataColor offered the Spyder range of colorimeters at a substantially lower price, but their performance has not been competitive with the X-Rite alternative. For the last several years the X-Rite i1Display Pro has pretty much been the only game in town when it comes to affordable, serious display calibration.

Spyder software calibration