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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: Joel Haskell on February 03, 2020, 01:35:59 pm

Title: Replacement Sensor for Spectraview Software??
Post by: Joel Haskell on February 03, 2020, 01:35:59 pm

I have been successfully running an NEC 2690WUXI-2 off of my older MacBook Pro and Mac Pro for a number of years. I just purchased a 16" MacBook Pro and discovered that 64-bit NEC Spectraview Software dropped support for the Eye-One Display 2 puck that they originally bundled with the monitor.  Does anyone have recommendations for a replacement sensor? Are there any advantages to the sensor NEC packages with Spectraview monitors (custom firmware, tuning specific to NEC monitors, etc...)?

I'm not in a hurry to replace the monitor, the dE's have trended downward from 0.8 to 0.4 over the years - hard to complain about that.

Here's the list of currently supported sensors:

BasICColor Discus
Datacolor Spyder3
Datacolor Spyder4
Datacolor Spyder5
Datacolor SpyderX
NEC MDSVSENSOR3
NEC SpectraSensor Pro
Photo Research PR-655, PR-670, PR-680, PR-730 and PR-740 Spectroradiometers.
X-Rite ColorMunki
X-Rite i1Display Pro
X-Rite i1Monitor
X-Rite i1Pro
X-Rite i1Pro2
X-Rite i1Studio

Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: Replacement Sensor for Spectraview Software??
Post by: digitaldog on February 03, 2020, 01:41:39 pm

Yeah, get an i1 Display Pro or, if you have the need to deal with OLED devices or similar today or in the future, maybe the Plus unit that’s $49 more.

Title: Re: Replacement Sensor for Spectraview Software??
Post by: Joel Haskell on February 03, 2020, 08:16:04 pm

Thanks, Andrew. No OLED's in my imaging future, so the i1Display Pro sounds like the answer.