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A professional-level display calibration tool featuring a new high-luminance sensor capable of measuring up to 10,000 cd/m2 (nits)!
This is Calibrite's Calibrator for Next Generation monitor technologies - and is bound to become the new industry standard.
Our take:
The current generations of Calibrite ColorChecker Display calibrators are designed for (and work perfectly for) current monitor technologies.
These new calibrators are designed for display technologies that are on the horizon - such as mini-LED and OLED. We are beginning to see these in e.g. some laptops, and one expects that in some time colour accurate, desktop monitor versions will follow.
Whilst it is very unlikely that most people will actually run desktop monitors at these sorts of high brightness levels (it's just not comfortable!) - those that want to e.g. work on HDR video, will find benefit from these new displays and thus need these new calibrators to support them. And of course, the fact these calibrators can cope with much higher and lower brightnesses (i.e. more contrast), does not make them less useful for current monitors.
In a nutshell, with these new models, you're paying a bit of a premium for best-in-class performance with current monitor technologies, and future proofing yourself against forth-coming monitor technologies.
This particular model is currently the only calibrator that can cope with display technologies going all the way up to an astonishing 10000 cd/m2 (nits) of brightness - so is the most future proof of them all!
Calibrite's Take:
Precision calibration for demanding creatives with the latest display technology.
The only calibration device to measure up to 10,000 nits! With the Display Plus HL, you’ll get the most advanced display calibration for the full gamut potential of all mini-LED, OLED, and Apple XDR panels available, as the advanced HL (high luminance) sensor enables greater colour accuracy for current and emerging super-bright display technologies. Display Plus HL covers broadcast video standards NTSC, PAL SECAM and ITU-R Rec.709, as well as BT.1886 tone curve for Rec.2020 – the standard for HDTV. Perfect for high-end filmmaking, editing, design, photography and more.
Made for photographers, designers, and content creators, the powerful combination of hardware and software in the Calibrite Plus HL brings your colours to life like never before.
Accurate display calibration and profiling for video editing are vital. Colour correction on multi-camera shoots means you need to rely on the image on your edit display. It must be accurate; there’s no compromise. And with the Calibrite Plus HL, you don’t have to.
Mini-LED, OLED, and super bright monitors require a sensor capable of measuring much brighter light levels. With the Display Plus HL, you’ll get the most advanced display calibration for the full gamut potential of all mini-LED, OLED, and Apple XDR panels available. The newly developed high-luminance sensor profiles the brightest displays currently available, and is equipped with advanced technology to support future display advancements. And, of course, we include White LED, Plasma, RGB LED, PFS Phosphor and Wide Gamut displays. Whether you’re using the latest display technology or planning to upgrade your desktop display or laptop, the Calibrite HL Plus ensures reliable performance for years to come.
Calibrite Display Plus HL is powered by new X-Rite technology and backed by decades of display and colour science research. And when used with Calibrite PROFILER software, you can access fully customizable advanced features such as White Point, Luminance, Contrast Ratio, and Gamma, which make the most of the new HL sensor.
Calibrite PROFILER Software
Calibrite PROFILER is our new, intuitive, simple-to-use calibration software for all levels of creators. With built-in presets for those new to colour management and fully customisable features for the more advanced user, Calibrite PROFILER makes colour management accessible for everyone, enabling anyone to get their colour right!
Display Calibration
The latest monitor technologies pose new challenges for calibration devices. Wider measurement ranges with higher luminance spikes and sustained levels mean greater colour measurement accuracy is required. Calibrite Display Plus HL is the only calibration device to bring you the tools of today and the hardware for tomorrow; as display technology develops and software technology advances, your hardware device is ready for the future.
Calibrate and profile all modern laptop and desktop display technologies such as LED, Plasma, RG Phosphor, OLED, and Wide Gamut. The HL sensor combined with Calibrite PROFILER software allows for more accurate calibration and colour profiling of LCD, mini-LED, and OLED displays, including Apple XDR panels.
Projector Calibration
Now your projected presentations can display your work in the best light and colour possible. Our projector profiling can easily create a custom profile for a projector or large panel display directly from your laptop in just a few minutes. The profiling process accounts for all room conditions, including projected colours, screen colour, and ambient room lighting, ensuring that your presentation looks exactly as you intended. With this technology, you can confidently showcase your work and know that people will see it exactly as you want.
Calibrator Technology
Colorimeter
Display Technology Support
LCD (CCFL Backlight)
LCD (LED Backlight)
OLED
Mini-LED
Plasma
Front Projector
Rear Projector
Multiple Display Support?
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Calibrators come in two main types:
Colorimeters - can only read light emitting devices, like monitors. They are generally the best (and most affordable) option for calibration monitors. Essentially these are like simple digital cameras with a sensor and some filters in front of the sensor to separate the different colours of light.
Spectrophotometers - These measure the actual spectral wavelengths of light. They have their own light source so can handle both light emitting devices like monitors and reflective materials like paper. They're very good at print but not as good as colorimeters for monitors generally, as the commonly available models tend to have some difficulty reading deep shadows on monitors.
A third type 'Spectrocolorimeter' - is something Datacolor came up with in their print calibrators. We at Image Science are ...not huge fans.
Here's a more comprehensive overview of the different types of calibrators (paraphrased from the ColorSync mailing list!):
1) Radiometer is a sort of light meter for some assumed spectrum; could be any electro magnetic radiation (EMR). If it is used for photography it's literally called a Light Metre.
2) Spectrometer is a radiometer that can report spectral power distributions, e.g., the EMR contour of a spectra. This is classically about a prism, hot objects and the visible signatures of their elemental constituents. But also could be about any range of EMR.
3) Spectroradiometer - measurement of precise energy distributions across a spectra. This is about knowing not only the spectral distribution, but exactly how much power is being conveyed.
4) Spectrophotometer, is an application of a spectrometer for evaluating spectral power distribution in range of visual sensation. In domain of Colorsync Users, this tends to be optimised for reflective media, but such a distinction is application dependent.
5) Colorimeter, a device that reports tri-stimulus colorimetric (e.g, CIEXYZ) coordinates of spectra; optimised under an assumption of RGB emissive media, i.e. display technologies
These last two are applications most relate to colorimetry, whereas the former three apply to many other EMR domains. So if you're a physicist or chemist or radio engineer, for example, you are generally thinking in terms of first 3, and if you are a colour user/engineer you are thinking mostly in terms of the last two.
Calibrators have filters in them and depending on the characteristics of the displays they are measuring, they may or may not support that type of display.
The display types are:
What colour temperarture choices for white point does the system allow you to make?
At a minimum, 6500K and monitor native should be offered. 6500K is the standard whitepoint in general use in the photographic world, and lower end monitors don't like having their whitepoint adjusted so monitor native is the best to use in those cases.
However, ideally you can set any whitepoint you like, so that you can, for instance, adjust your monitor to look more like specific paper types.
What gammas can you choose when calibrating?
Pretty much everyone should be using 2.2.
Some might want to experiment with L* in some obscure cases.
How many patches are used (measured) in the calibration process? More (to a point) is better from a quality point of view, although it makes the process take longer of course.
200 to 400 patches is generally enough.
Also - can the calibrator target the reproduction of specific colours, such as specific Pantones?
Uniformity is still an issue with modern LCD monitors, especially lower quality ones. Does the calibrator have a system for assessing the screen uniformity?
(Unfortunately there's no system for correcting screen uniformity issues, other than getting a better monitor!)
Can you calibrate multiple monitors connected to the one computer?
Note, even if the calibarator supports this, your system must as well. This means all video cards in your system must have a separate LUT table.
All Macs have this, and most desktop PCs as well. Some PC laptops have single LUT systems although it's been some time since we've seen this actually.
ICC V2 is the most compatible and in fact for monitors there's really no practical benefit to ICC V4 support really.
In general, table based profiles are more accurate than matrix profiles, so this is desirable.
Devices with a monitor history report can show you how the behaviour of your screen is changing over time.
This can be useful in diagnosing issues and planning hardware upgrades.
Will the system give you a report on the quality of your monitor?
Measuring a monitor's quality with the same device you used to calibrate it is of dubious benefit, though - as any error is likely to be repeated, so the device might well report that things are fine when they are not.
Can you use the calibrator with an app on your Apple i device or Android device?
Note, this will allow you to display calibrated images within that app only - there is no general support for colour management on mobiles/tablets yet.
DisplayCAL is an open source application built on top of the excellent argyll cms open source colour management system.
It is available for Linux, Windows and OSX.
It's an extremely good calibration package, in many ways better than the manufacturer's own software, and well worth checking out - see this comprehensive page for details.
Often DisplayCAL can be used to rescue older calibrators when the manufacturer has stopped supporting legacy operating systems.
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