NEC SpectraView II Color Calibration Kit (SVII-PRO-KIT)

by NEC

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.3 x 2.3 inches ; 11.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001P3OGZG
• Item model number: SVII-PRO-KIT
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 6, 2009

Product Description

Designed for professionals with color-critical applications, SpectraViewII combines award-winning NEC display technology with a color-measurement sensor and sophisticated calibration software. The result is highly accurate, reliable, repeatable, feature-rich solution for display calibration and profiling. The SpectraViewII system uses a color sensor to take color measurements of the display screen during calibration. The software analyzes these measurements and sends color adjustment commands directly to the display monitor. This means that color adjustments are made in the monitor rather than in the video graphics adapter. With SpectraViewII, the video graphics adapter is not used at all to make any gamma or Tone Response Curve corrections to the display, so the fidelity of the system is maintained.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pricey but worth it, January 8, 2011

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P. J. Persing (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NEC SpectraView II Color Calibration Kit (SVII-PRO-KIT) (Electronics)

Using this package I was able to calibrate my display for regular use, print matching in Photoshop, Lightroom, and other programs. Yes it cost a fair amount, but if you are going to spend the money for a top notch display you might as well shell out the feww extra bucks and calibrate it properly. Believe me when I say the difference in color accuracy after I calibrated the display is astounding!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended!, April 30, 2011

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Adam29 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: NEC SpectraView II Color Calibration Kit (SVII-PRO-KIT) (Electronics)

Actually, there's not much to say and I'm also not going to be technical here. If you can afford to buy one of these monitors (not necessarily NEC) you should equip yourself with a hardware/tool allowing you to maximize your monitor's capabilities. Personally, I always like to use dedicated hardware which is not always coming cheap but hay, at the end, it's an investment which will pay off in the future if you're planning to become a professional graphic designer, photo editor or any type of multi-platform designer where colour reproduction and quality is highly demanded.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have if you have a NEC PA monitor, January 10, 2012

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anon (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: NEC SpectraView II Color Calibration Kit (SVII-PRO-KIT) (Electronics)

Only with the Spectraview II software can you easily calibrate the internal 14bit 3D LUT.

You could try to build a calibration with multi-profiler alone (comes free with the monitor), however, you need to use some external program to measure the white point and primary locations and white luminance and then enter the custom values in yourself and then you'd get a top quality calibration too however the associated .icc profile made by MP would be wrong as it would list the programmed values instead of the measured values.

The custom NEC i1D2 probe works very well with SV II + a wide gamut NEC PA monitor. They custom calibrate the probe to NECs wide gamut displays. Using SV II it reports reasonably similar values to my $900 i1 Pro, although the i1 Pro does appear to do a bit better.