Upgrade your Spyder 3 Pro to Spyder 3 Elite

Datacolor is offering an upgrade program for Spyder 3 Pro users wishing to upgrade to the new Spyder 3 Elite 4.0 software for only $99. While the update saves existing Spyder 3 owners from paying the full price of the Spyder 3 Elite–which is currently about $195, about $58 more than the Sypder 3 Pro at B&H Photo–looking at the overall price doesn’t make it so attractive in my opinion, though it’s certainly cheaper than buying a whole new colorimeter.

That said, the Elite 4.0 software does look to be an interesting upgrade, at least based on the marketing literature. The software appears to make calibrating multiple displays much easier, as well as offering some improvements in calibration accuracy. It also has a nice visualization of the display’s color gamut relative to several color spaces. In addition users with displays that lack brightness controls, like Apple’s iMac line, can now control display brightness though the Spyder 3 software.

Details on upgrading can be found on DataColor’s website here.