Which Colorimeter? Xrite or Calibrite?

[Joerg]

Dear all,

I am using my PC and monitor (Dell 3014) for treating my digital and analog photographs. The analog ones are scanned with Vuescan, and after that, just as the digital ones treated with Capture one pro, the older ones with an older license of Adobe Lightroom 6.14.
Since a long time I have an Xrite DTP94 colorimeter, but I understand it is not good anymore for the modern screens like the Dell U3014 that I am using and much less for the screen of my Macbook pro M4 14 inch.

I am now thinking of getting a new colorimeter and came across a recommendation from Kuba Trybowski which reads:
“Get a colorimeter from the i1 Display Pro family:

X-Rite i1 Display Pro/Pro Plus;
Calibrite ColorChecker Display Pro/Plus;
Calibrite Display Pro HL/Plus HL;
i1 Display Pro colorimeters support hardware calibration: they can be used with proprietary calibration software from such companies as Eizo (ColorNavigator), NEC (SpectraView II), and BenQ (Palette Master Element).”

I understand the Calibrite Display Pro HL / Plus HL are the most recent and have a USB-c connection, that is why my tendence would be to get the plus HL or the pro HL.
My present PC has an AMD Radeo RX6600 graphics card, and the monitor is connected via DisplayPort.
Are there any other items that should be considered?

Thanks a lot for your help here,
Joerg

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[Vincent]

Dear all,

I am using my PC and monitor (Dell 3014) for treating my digital and analog photographs. The analog ones are scanned with Vuescan, and after that, just as the digital ones treated with Capture one pro, the older ones with an older license of Adobe Lightroom 6.14.
Since a long time I have an Xrite DTP94 colorimeter, but I understand it is not good anymore for the modern screens like the Dell U3014 that I am using and much less for the screen of my Macbook pro M4 14 inch.

U3014 is no modern by any means. It’a an old GB-LED with mild to severe overshoot issues.
AFAIK id dead even for support and no Dell DUCCS app for HW cal on macOS although you can use last version of windows DUCCS that shoudl be compatible with W11.
I’d try to get an old laptop / desktop PC with windows to get most of that U3014. Once display is calibrated on CAL1/CAL2 slot, just copy ICM files with display behavior to your mbook. Remember to use different filenames.

You can use DIsplayCAL on WIndows to test this HW cal. DUe to low QC control on Dell you may get grey grande errors close to 2 and visible by naked eye. doing a GPU calibration with DIsplaYCAL on top of HW cal1/cal2 slot may solve this issues. Remember to use slow calibration speed when correcting grey range issues.

I am now thinking of getting a new colorimeter and came across a recommendation from Kuba Trybowski which reads:
“Get a colorimeter from the i1 Display Pro family:

X-Rite i1 Display Pro/Pro Plus;
Calibrite ColorChecker Display Pro/Plus;
Calibrite Display Pro HL/Plus HL;
i1 Display Pro colorimeters support hardware calibration: they can be used with proprietary calibration software from such companies as Eizo (ColorNavigator), NEC (SpectraView II), and BenQ (Palette Master Element).”

I understand the Calibrite Display Pro HL / Plus HL are the most recent and have a USB-c connection, that is why my tendence would be to get the plus HL or the pro HL.
My present PC has an AMD Radeo RX6600 graphics card, and the monitor is connected via DisplayPort.
Are there any other items that should be considered?

Thanks a lot for your help here,
Joerg

Same device, different packaging with some of them no longer in stock. These devices last, mine from 2013. HL models are supposedly certified to be able to get higher nits at the expense some OLED loss in near dark, but no issue to typical VA/IPS panel

Serial number prefix varies between models, so Calibrite software may reject to use older ones, but since Calibrite profiler software is garbage (no WLED PFS correction), nothing is lost. Better use DIsplayCAL with them.
Same may apply to CALMAN, it may be rejected depending on serial number prefix. Using a hook solves this (ledoge’s i1d3 hook on github).
Take a look on each HW cal app (Eizo, benq, dell) support for each device IF they are filtering by serial number prefix.

I understand the Calibrite Display Pro HL / Plus HL are the most recent and have a USB-c connection, that is why my tendence would be to get the plus HL or the pro HL.
My present PC has an AMD Radeo RX6600 graphics card, and the monitor is connected via DisplayPort.
Are there any other items that should be considered?

So from that list buy whatever you want. But since older devices may be out of stock, yes, an HL is fine and would be easier to get.

Remember that although colormunki display / calibrite display SL is an i1d3 for DisplayCAL (although a slow one) apps usng Xrite SDK (Ben, Eizo…) for HW cal will reject them (unless a hook is used). So better get a HL model than a SL model

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by Vincent.
• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by Vincent.

[Joerg]

Thanks Vincent for your thorough feedback, that is highly appreciated.

[Joerg]

I ordered a Calibrite Display Plus HL this morning from that big mailorder company and their returns branch. Let’s see, how my experience will be.

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