Pantone huey MEU101
by Pantone
|
List Price: Our Price: $74.99 You Save: $14.01 (16%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: CE See more product details |
|---|
Customers in the UK,
Buy this product at amazon.co.uk
for British Pounds
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Pantone huey MEU101
Customer Review: Great Product That Does Exactly What It Was Purchased For
Summary: 5 Stars
We just bought a Canon PIXMA Pro 9000 MK II and was not happy with WYSIWYG performance between the monitor and the printed image. Clearly our monitor was not displaying the colors that were being printed. Waste of paper and ink. So I started looking at photo forums and of course everyone recommends a color correction device. I searched and thought about buying the ColorMunki but for over three hundred dollars that was a bit too much. So we bought this one along with a new NEC EA231WMI-BK 23 inch Ws LCD monitor (fantastic IPS display monitor, especially for the price). We now have 4 monitors in our house, and one is a 15 year old Nokia CRT. I used this device to calibrate each of them and it worked fantastically. I thought there was no way it could fix that old CRT, but it did. I was shocked to see the colors looked exactly as they do live.
What I liked the most was how easy it is to use. I thought I was going to have to self adjust the monitor settings, based on what the Pantone Huey had recommended. I was wrong. Just load the software, plug the device into an open USB port, click to calibrate the room lighting, attach it to your monitor with it's built in tiny suction cups, and click again to calibrate the monitor. That's it. It makes all the adjustments for you and after it's done it shows you a before and after comparison. What a difference! Wish I had bought this thing years ago.
Highly recommended. The price performance is 2nd to none.
----
Update. I noticed some saying does not work well with Windows 7. I have 2 desktop PC's that are running Windows 7 and 1 laptop running 7 and it works fine on them. Also have 1 PC running XP and works great there are well. Also some complain it does not look like prints. It is NOT a printer calibrator. You have to spend a LOT more money for one that does both. A LOT MORE.
Customer Review: Huey -- Easy to Use and Affordable
Summary: 5 Stars
I had been planning on purchasing a color correction system for my computer for some time, but until Pantone Huey was released, I had not been able to find an affordable yet accurate colorimeter. For under $100, you can't beat this simple & sophisticated device.
I was a little apprehensive of ordering a product so newly released, but I put my worries aside and purchased Huey, since it was less than half the price of the other models I was considering. Huey has lived up to my expectations, and was worth the investment. It has been easy to use: setup took less than five minutes, the directions are clear and concise, and the program walks you through each step onscreen.
Huey sits next to my monitor, unobtrusively monitoring ambient (room) light and taking any changes into account (this feature can be disabled easily). The ambient light adjustment was a huge selling point for me -- other models offering this option were upwards of $200.
While I can't make detailed adjustments of the color temperature, Huey's program allows you to select varying color settings based on whether you plan to edit photos, play computer games, or browse the web. Huey also allows you to compare your "before" and "after" monitor calibrations. I think you will be suprised at how much better it makes your screen look -- I know I was.
I am more than satisfied with my investment, as Huey's simplicity and automation has saved me time and effort while providing me with a color corrected monitor that I can trust to be accurate.
Customer Review: Wow, I'm Impressed
Summary: 5 Stars
I used the Spyder Colorvision a few years ago and it worked fine on Windows 98. When I made the jump to XP I couldn't get updated drivers. So it worked marginally. I couldn't get my Samsung 225W Monitor to work right as far as color accuracy. Things looked generally okay...but there were issues. My photos showed blown highlights, even though they printed okay. The bright reds on some programs looked blown out. I had to reduce contrast to take pink hues out and fix the blown highlights. But everything looked dull under that setting.
So finally I decided to get Huey. Within 10 minutes it adjusted everything perfectly. The photos no longer have blown highlights. The reds are now true. I can adjust the brightness and contrast to my taste without affecting the colors or creating pink hues. The program guides you very well through set up. It's really a breeze. Then you can compare the corrected settings with the uncorrected settings. You can pick various pre-set adjustments (Photo Editing, Video Editing, Warm low contrast, Warm high contrast, etc.) and visually see the changes on the screen. So you know just what you're getting.
The funny thing is when I look as the manual settings on the monitor controls (amount of red, green and blue; or the gamma selection, etc.) they are the same as they were before the adjustments. Huey seems to overlay its changes on the existing settings on the monitor (don't know how they do it). But it works great.
Very Highly Recommended. I'd give it 6 Stars if I could.
Customer Review: Great unit, but could use more information
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, admittedly this is the "Huey," not the "pro" version, but still.
Got the unit, installed the software, two minutes later the Huey determined the proper ICC profile. I do a lot of video editing and think I've developed a pretty decent eye for monitor calibration. Even so, Huey made a subtle but useful improvement on gray scale.
What I DIDN'T like was the holistic verbiage about which setting to use. For example, did you want "gaming," or maybe "web/photography," or even "graphic design/video?" Turns out these three settings actually meant an illuminant of D65 (neutral color temperature, neither yellowish or bluish) and gammas of 1.8, 2.2, and 2.5 respectively. As if a gamer wanted to use 1.8! (2.2 is the universal standard.)
Reminded me a bit of some of the audio equalizer settings you see on junk equipment: do you want "jazz," or "club," or maybe "vocals?" No thanks, just a flat response for me, thank you. That's the purpose of audio gear, after all.
Anyway, upgrading to the Huey Pro version gets you verbiage that tells it like it is. You want D65? Click here. You want 2.2 gamma? Click here. That's how it should be.
23 August 2010 UPDATE:
Upgraded to HueyPro software/firmware. Results exactly as before. Still very happy with the unit. I don't use the room lighting compensation feature, nor the recalibration reminders. It's an LCD panel, not a CRT for heaven's sake.
Customer Review: Pantone Huey MEU101
Summary: 5 Stars
This product works. How often can you install a product that works from the get go without any gliches and without confusing and long installation procedures? I installed this both on WinXP and Windows Vista 64 machines quickly and without a single hitch. Insert CD to load software, reboot computer and plug in the Huey. It's that simple.
Calibration takes just a few minutes. Word of note... this will improve your monitor color accuracy but it may yield a calibrated monitor with a color spectrum that may or may not be the most pleasing to your eye. What it will do is accurately calibrate your monitor so that what you see on the monitor are accurate colors and will match what you print. So if you are using any photoshop or photo software this is indispensible. The Huey also EASILY lets you switch back and forth between calibrated and uncalibrated monitor screens in case you prefer the prior uncalibrated look for some of your work, like working with text programs.
The Huey can also remain plugged in (or not if you prefer)to periodically adjust your monitor brightness based on its measurements of changing room lighting levels. I give this a solid 10 or in this case a solid 5 stars!