[Leica] Update on Spyder 3 Pro/MacBook Air Calibration Problems

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)]

After a somewhat frustrating back and forth with the Datacolor support  
folks I can report the following results.  You'll remember from an  
earlier post that my attempts to calibrate my Air led to consistently  
green-tinted results and that V3.1.1 of the software trashed my  
machine by turning the menu Bar black and putting black blotches in  
many of the open windows.  I had to fully restore my hard drive to  
recover from that problem.

1. V3.1.2 of the Spyder 3 Pro software ran fine on the Air.

2. V3.1.2 did not fix the calibration error.

Since Spyder 2 Pro and Spyder 3 Pro both miscalibrated the Air in the  
same way I suspect there is either still a problem in the software or  
some incompatibility between the Spyder 3 sensor and the Air screen.

We never did address the question of the failure of the Spyder 3 Pro  
installer to work on my PowerPC iMac.  Spyder 2 Pro calibrates the  
iMac just fine and I didn't want to do anything to mess that up.

Frankly, I also just got tired of working with Datacolor support after  
they didn't respond to my request for an Spyder 3 Pro uninstaller.  I  
wanted to reinstall Spyder 3 Pro on a clean slate and they do say you  
should remove all earlier versions of their software before installing  
the new.  (I only learned that late in the game. It's not in the  
installation instructions.)

I have yet to investigate ColorEyes <http://www.integrated-color.com/ 
 >.  It works with the Spyder sensor and I've read some good things  
about it.  But, it's another $175.00 and I'm not ready to spend that  
yet.

Regards,

Dick