But I suppose that might be a more practical option for people living in the US. I've never bothered to sell mine because of how poor the resale value is people are basically giving them away on eBay, and although it is old, it's not a bad meter. The DTP-94 is worth considering if you want to spend as little as possible. There might be rebadged "Display 3" meters that can be found cheaper, but I'm not sure.
Both meters are supported by free software.
IIRC, differences are that the ColorMunki takes slower readings, cannot take ambient light measurements (?) and is blocked by commercial software like CalMAN and ChromaPure.
The i1Display Pro and ColorMunki Display are essentially the same meter, but some limitations were added to the ColorMunki through firmware or whatever. I use a ColorMunki Display and formerly used a DTP-94. So which would do what I need, check out the monitors as fully as possible without any further hardware? What models support display uniformity testing? If there are any faults with the monitors then I need to find them ASAP so that I can return them. There are some models below these but I doubt that they are worth considering. I have seen some decent, none professional reviews of the Datacolor Spyder5PRO and that costs £101. The monitors cost just above £100 x2 whereas the ColorMunki Display costs £105.00 and X-Rite i1Display Pro costs £133. I have seen the X-Rite ColorMunki Display recommended and also the X-Rite i1Display Pro recommended as a higher end solution which is supposed to offer display uniformity testing but maybe that is just the software and not a limitation of the hardware itself. I have no experience of calibrating monitors or the devices used to do so and therefore would appreciate some recommendations on devices and their benefits/strengths. *********** Here is the important bit ************īefore I order the monitor(s), I would like a calibration device so that I can check out the monitor and adjust it for the best display and return it if there are any display faults.
If anyone has any recommendations for a stand then I would appreciate a recommendation. The stands will have to go as they are crap allowing very little adjustment therefore I want a dual desktop stand.
Two 1080p VA displays will cost me about half the price of a 1440p VA display. I think that I am going to go for the BenQ GW2470H 24" AMVA panel as it is available at a decent price and I think that I will get 2 of them for dual displays which should allow me more pixels than a 2560x1440p monitor that I wanted for so long.