Datacolor Spyder Photo/Video Kit

The Datacolor Spyder Photo/Video Kit is the ultimate portable Photo/Video tool kit. It provides all the tools you need in one convenient kit that ensures the photos and videos you create will capture and display the crisp details, and accurate and consistent colour you want from the start, for the most streamlined and efficient workflows.

Datacolor Spyder Photo/Video Kit Key Features:

• Includes SpyderPro, Spyder Cube, Spyder Checkr Video, and Spyder Checkr Photo Card Set
• Ensures photos and videos will have accurate, consistent colour
• Comes with a case to hold the kit

SpyderPro

Colour Confidence That’s Fast & Easy - SpyderPro lets you easily calibrate your monitor in only about 90 seconds, so you can be confident that you’re beginning your editing from an accurate colour starting point, saving you valuable time and effort in your editing workflow. The result? True-to-life colour and fine detail capture.

Professional Results for Every Experience Level - Intuitive software and oneclick calibration ensures ease of use and professional results for even the most novice user. Additionally, unlimited calibration settings like fully customisable gamma curves, white point, and brightness settings, allow for advanced colour control for a truly customised workflow that experienced professionals will appreciate.

Calibration for Today’s Digital Workflows - SpyderPro now calibrates an even wider range of laptop/desktop displays, including the latest technologies like OLED, mini-LED, and Apple Liquid Retina XDR so users can optimize the colour richness, deep shadows, nuanced highlights and enhanced details these monitors make available. Additionally, it calibrates Wide and Standard LED gamuts, while affording workflow adaptability, allowing you to work in even the brightest of conditions with its high brightness feature. Working on-the-go with multiple portable displays attached to a single computer? The SpyderTune feature lets you adjust white point, gamma, and brightness for visual fine tuning for the best consistency across multiple displays.

Colour “Surprises” Are a Thing of the Past! - With Datacolor’s exclusive Device PreviewTM Beta feature, you’ll be able to see a simulated version of what your images can look like on the latest phones and tablets without having to use the actual devices for previewing. Device PreviewTM Beta also allows you to soft proof your images in print so you can view how they will appear on paper.

Patchwork Colour: OK for Quilts, Not Digital Viewing - Multiple cameras and monitors, shifts in lighting, days of shooting, splicing footage – if your monitor’s colour isn’t consistent, neither is your visual story. SpyderPro’s StudioMatch feature allows for side-by-side calibration for multiple computers/displays, ensuring consistent, accurate colour reproduction across multiple connected monitors or computers.

Video & Cinema Colour You Can Count On - SpyderPro’s Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 targets ensure colours will be accurate so you can be confident that colours and images will translate properly across the production workflow, from editing and post-production to transmission, streaming, and final display. Rec. 709 is the most commonly used standard today, while Rec. 2020’s wider colour gamut will let you deliver content that is more lifelike for a truly immersive experience for your audience.

Get the “Big Picture” of Your Picture - The Advanced Display Mapping & Analysis feature of SpyderPro gives you detailed information about your monitor. You can check colour/colour uniformity, brightness, contrast, gamut, tone response, display accuracy and white point of your monitors to track colour accuracy and consistency.

Details Come Out from the Shadows - SpyderPro’s Gamma Curve Adjustment feature lets you refine tone distribution (how seamlessly black transitions to white). Gradations are enhanced so shadow and light details remain crisp and clear. You can also balance your display’s brightness settings based on your location and needs, for precise colour accuracy to capture every detail.

Customisable Calibration for Your Needs - SpyderPro offers unlimited calibration settings for fully customised calibration for all workflows. Fine tune the gamma, white point and brightness settings for any need. There’s also a preset list of the most common calibration targets, including those for video standards and StudioMatch. Willing to spend a bit more time for a more sophisticated calibration? Choose Better in Grey Balance in the calibration settings for smoother gradients. Pressed for time? Opt for the Faster setting.

Adapt to Shifts in Light - Automatic Room Light Switching measures and tracks the lighting around you to make sure your current display profile is the one best suited for your environment. Not every task requires controlled lighting so allowing SpyderPro to adapt the calibration to your room lighting will ensure your monitor profile is optimal. During a Room Light Calibration, multiple profiles are created for different room lighting levels.

Use CheckCal for Confidence - CheckCal is Datacolor’s answer to the question, “Is my calibration still valid?” CheckCal performs a short test on your monitor to verify your calibration is up to date.

Calibration as Bright as Your Environment - Many modern monitors have brightness levels for use outdoors or in other highly illuminated settings. SpyderPro’s High Brightness calibration setting balances these monitors when working in a bright environment for an accurate reference.

Keep Connected - Native USB-C connection comes standard with the SpyderPro, along with an additional USB-A adaptor for added convenience when needed.

Spyder Checkr Video

Easier Colour Correction - An advanced colour reference tool for video that works with vectorscopes and waveform monitors to help ensure colour accuracy and consistency across a range of cameras and lens combinations from the start of shooting, simplifying and facilitating post-production colour correction.

All the Colours You Need - Spyder Checkr Video is the all-in-one colour chart to optimise and harmonize any video workflow. Its patent-pending Colour Pattern Card design is our most comprehensive colour target to date, generating a pattern of hues at two saturation levels, allowing you to see how your colours are being captured throughout all of the hues between primary and secondary colours, instantly.

More Colour Info at a Glance - By leveraging how video is processed, Spyder Checkr Video provides more colour information to the user at a glance for greater colour accuracy that is intuitive for video novices and professionals alike.

Tailored to Video - Includes 5 high-gloss target cards - 2 types of colour cards for different workflows, (a conventional colour patch card + our patent-pending Colour Pattern Card), a gradient grey-scale card, a solid neutral grey card for white balance and a focus star card. Glossy cards allow for high colour saturation, wider colour gamut, plus easier flare identification.

Functional Form - The ergonomic case design fits comfortably and securely in the hand, minimizing fatigue and handling errors as well as finger shadow casts.

Sustainability-Focused - Spyder Checkr Video Cards are replaceable and interchangeable with Spyder Checkr Photo cards for photo/video hybrid work, allowing for greater cost and sustainability efficiencies.

Spyder Checkr Photo Card Set

Robust Colour Offering - Four interchangeable cards that fit into your ergonomic Checkr Video case, featuring a robust 62 photographic colour targets. Beautiful Skin Tones - Expanded skin tone offering makes Spyder Checkr Photo cards ideal for portraiture.

Greater Depth & Detail - Expanded grey scale and large grey balance targets allow for greater depth and detail in images.

True Colour You Can Count On - Ultra-matte finish on long-lasting, ink-printed, museum-quality paper cards allows for the truest colour renditions and deepest black for photos.

Sustainably Focused - Cards are made from 78% bamboo, a renewable resource for paper.

Adaptable Editing Software - Spyder Checkr software is included and allows you to work in Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Camera RAW or Hasselblad Phocus.

Spyder Cube

White Balance Made Easy - A portable solution for photo/video/hybrid shooters that provides references to set white balance, exposure, black level, white level and brightness right from the start.

Real World Results - Unique, 3-dimensional design differs from traditional grey cards, mimicking the way light actually falls on your subject and allowing you to see primary and secondary light sources for more precise white balance correction.

A True Absolute Black - Includes an innovative black trap for an absolute black reference that allows you to set a true black point in an image.

Chrome Ball - Additionally, its chrome ball allows you to see specular highlights or zoom in to see a reflected view of a set so you can match a lighting setup.

Colour Temperature Control - Allows users to instantly colour-correct images by setting a colour temperature value to neutralize the primary light source.

Seamless Interface - Takes the complexity out of RAW image editing, by using common tools found in colour managed applications, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.

Easy to Use - Simply take a reference shot with the device under the same light conditions as your photos/videos, adjust, save, and apply to an entire series of images.

Adaptable - Unique design allows you to hang the device during a shoot or attach it to a tripod mount or simply hold it.

Rugged and Portable - Easy to throw in your camera bag to have with you whether in studio or on-the-go.

What’s in the box?

• 1 x SpyderPro
• 1 x Spyder Cube
• 1 x Spyder Checkr Video
• 1 x Spyder Checkr Photo Card Set
• 1 x Durable Case

FAQs:

What are the system requirements for the Datacolor Spyder Photo/Video Kit?

The Datacolor Spyder Photo/Video Kit is compatible with Windows 10 32/64, Windows 11, Mac OS X 10.14 – macOS 14, monitors with a resolution of 1280x768 or greater, 16-bit video card (24-bit recommended), 1GB of available RAM, 500MB of available hard disk and requires Internet connection for software download and activation.