datacolorSpyderCube - 3D Advanced Calibration Tool and Profiling Solution for Accurate Color Matching and Consistency

As the director of an art gallery in Santa Fe's world-famous Canyon Road art district, the ability to quickly and accurately adjust the colors in artwork photography is crucial to our success. When used in conjunction with Adobe Lightroom, the Datacolor SpyderCube has served to streamline the process and dramatically improve the end result. Datacolor's website offers some excellent video tutorials on the effective use of this tool. The price is a bit high given the simplicity of the design, but the results have been worth it!

I should have bought into the DataColor system long ago. Improved your work and makes professional printing a breeze - if you get the whole system and calibrate. Pays for itself instantly. This is mainly for jpeg shooters. If you attach it to the to of the color sweetie filer thing, you get the added benefit of a light trap and specular level that isn't on the color checker. Super useful on set for quick fixes, too. You will want the color checker for calibrating your lens and camera combos. But this is still super portable and amazingly helpful.

It is a great calibration tool, but very expensive for a small plastic cube! One would be able to make something similar for a few bucks.

Fácil, manejo buenos resultados .

I like it better than the grey card. The black trap is especially clever in my opinion.

1) It attaches to a light stand. I don't have to ask the person to hold anything during portraits. Looks professional.2) It is non-reflective - Shiny grey cards are almost useless to me when using flash.3) Tri-tone: I tend to color adjust in lightroom using the Spyder using the grey. Once in a great while I will need to use the white instead of the grey.4) Shadow hole There is a hole on the black part that allows you to set the darkest point in the picture. Very useful when are trying to get a "true" black in the histogram. Useful for color-correcting black and white images.5) Small and fits easily in a camera bag. No fold/wrinkle marks.

I'm upset though, that the packaging came really, and I mean really banged up and looked like it had been opened. There was a slice through the box that looked like it was from a box cutter/blade, and also the Amazon envelope was spliced open!!! Not happy about that, and upon further review, I've noticed the block actually CAME damaged. The black paint is scuffed. I would recommend looking at other alternatives. Although is comes at a hefty price for a plastic white balance cube, you aren't guaranteed a product that will come without scuffs/damaged packaging. Wouldn't recommend - because of the price and the paint job.

Great product. It makes life easy when using Lightroom to correct images. Much better than what I used to use (a tricolor cloth ring that expanded to 24")The only problem was that the bag holding it was black -- like my bag -- and I could not see it and thought it was lost. So I put a bright tape on it and all was well. Get it!