Philip

I’ve been cruising out the latest ColorMunki web pages at X-Rite where they have a colour hue test that you can take to test your ability to distinguish colours. The good news for me is I’m pretty much spot on able to distinguish hues properly (only a few mistakes!) which is good since I spend time calibrating my monitor and I’m pretty sensitive when things are off.

Try for yourself here but be warned it’s got an email register signup. I’ve got a ColorMunki in the mail on the way from USA since they want to charge a gob-smacking $695 RRP in Australia vs a more respectable $400 US + shipping.

The good thing about the ColorMunki is that it’s by X-Rite/Pantone and they generally make good gear and don’t skimp on the hardware, only the software. Usually, the sensors they use are all top notch and the software is what costs a lot, since it supports additional features and advanced analysis of the results.

What makes the ColorMunki useful is that it combines a display and printer calibrator in one spectrophotometer that can handle most of the requirements of the prosumer market to match your monitor to your printer and optionally to your camera shoot environment. I’ll write up more about it when I get it in and tested.

However, for interest I’ve been printing off some photos… unfortunately the results haven’t been that great so I’ve needed to get a colour calibrator in to fix it properly to make it match what I see on the screen.