welcome to an unboxing that is actually pretty fascinating for me so this is a
this is going to be two different unboxings at the same time this is going
to be the color monkey from xrite and the i1 display Pro from x-rite these are
both uh display calibration devices
which have a couple of different well differences so the color monkey for
example for starters can be used for either displays or for
projectors and it can be used in a couple of different ways to achieve that
the whole setup process takes about 5 minutes and it is useful for a number of
different things so number one is it actually allows you to so it has a
sensor that you here and I've opened this before I've
actually used it already so I'm pretty impressed with the results so I decided
to do a video about it so it's got a color sensor here which you basically
put up against the the screen and then it takes some readings it changes what's
on the screen and then it basically adjusts the profile of your of your
video output in order to make it match as closely as possible to what's real
now what's cool about this is that you then take it and stick it on your desk
where it acts as an ambient light sensor and it will continue if it's still
plugged in by USB to your computer it will continue to adjust your monitor
settings according to what the ambient light situation is to make sure that
you're always looking at as accurate an image as possible which is very cool
like outstanding um so why would you want the most accurate possible color
well if you're working with anything to do with print then you want to make sure
that these colors are as calibrated as these colors and they're both as similar
as possible that's very important um if you're doing anything to do with graphic
design you want to make sure that whatever you're working on is going to look correct no matter where it's being
viewed or as close as possible and you want to again be working with as
accurate as possible colors and no this will not turn your TN panel into you
know a perfect display for graphic
design and photo work unfortunately not you will still need a good highquality
display and there's no getting around that but this will take your nonf
factory calibrated Monitor and almost no monitors unless they're very high in
professional ones or something like ASUS's PA series we got one over there
that we use for our uh monitoring while we're filming right there Pro art um
those come factory calibrated but most of them do not so here you go you got a
monitor calibration ambient light measurement as well projector
calibration by setting it up on a little stand like this there's a there's
a way to do this you're going to have to trust me on this there you go you can uh
calibrate your projector that way very cool stuff so before and after automatic
display control y y y new state-ofthe-art etc etc it's also not
that expensive I mean it used to be it wasn't that long ago that any kind of
color calibrator device was going to be running a couple hundred bucks but
that's not really the case anymore so something like the color monkey is something you could actually buy just
for home use no big deal now the i1 display Pro the biggest difference that
we found was oh oh right it can be right so it can be used for FL fluorescent
back lights LED as well as wide gamma
LCDs so you don't have to worry about what kind of LCD you have you know is it
going to work is it not going to work it will work so this guy right here not
only can It calibrate your display or your projector it can also be used for
qcing displays so let's say you are a I
know graphic design studio or something and you're not buying you know $1,500
each monitors that are come pre-calibrated and are perfect so let's
say you're like you know a real company that's not running on like a baller
budget you grab one of these and then the displays that you bring in you can
use this to QC them you can go okay um I
hold on just a sec right so you can specify what kind of Deltas you expect
and you can actually display quality check and trending over time so that's
really cool because you can get it to pay attention to oh yeah right and you
can actually Match multiple monitors and work groups as well so this is all neat
because let's say you have like a lab and you're buying 10 monitors every quarter or whatever else you can use
this to keep track of are they getting better are they getting worse are they
all matching so that if someone moves from one workstation to another one
working on a project day one to day two they don't have to make a bunch of
adjustments and they won't think that something's wrong so that's the
difference between the more professional oriented one versus is the color monkey
so there's also okay what else they got here so you guys can see what they have
going for them you can actually check out the xray site if you want to get
more information um trending over time
trending over time is more of an issue with um ccfl backlit monitors LEDs don't
really suffer from that nearly as much um as well as projectors that's a big
deal with projectors and I think that pretty much
covers it so thank you for checking out this dual unboxing of the i1 display Pro
as well as the color monkey from XR don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
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