Pantone Colorplus - Has anyone tried it?

Looks very interesting at $100. Though of course by the time we see it in
Australia it'll be $200 - we always get gouged Downunder.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0404/04040501pantonecolorvision.asp

DJ

 

It's really a rebranded Colorvision Spyder. People in this group have been
using it for years. You can check group.google.com for reviews on the
spyder (I think most were favourable).

 

Actually it's not. Pantone owns ColorVision and the new ColorPlus
product still carries the ColorVision name.

My friend bought one a few weeks back and asked me to put it through
its paces. I profiled several monitors with the package and found none
of them to produce better results than what I could achieve manually.
In many cases the created profile was way off.

The difference between the ColorPlus package and the PhotoCal and
OptiCal bundles is not just the software. It also appears they have
decided to use a dumbed down version of the Spyder II. While it will
work with CRT and LCD monitors, it seems it may only be a 3 color
colorimeter, or at least only red, green, blue, and gray samples are
tested by the ColorPlus software wizard.

While the provided colorimeter is said to be a Spyder II, both
PhotoCal and OptiCal refuse to use it stating that it is an
unsupported device. For this reason the ColorPlus package cannot be
used to upgrade CRT only versions of the PhotoCal or OptiCal packages.
This is what had hoped to do.

Here are the results of my limited tests:

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/90006/0#728207