Datacolor Spyder5 Elite

£198/$200

www.datacolor.com

The Elite version of the Spyder5 colorimeter may look identical to its Express sibling, but fire up the Elite’s software and you get a host of extra features.

The most valuable is arguably the ability to calibrate your monitor not just to conform to a typical 2.2 gamma and 6500 K white point, but also to colour space standards like SRGB, Adobe RGB, NTSC and Rec 709. Given that they use the same hardware, it’s no surprise that the Elite manages a very similar five-minute calibration time to the Spyder5 Express.

To the naked eye, the Elite’s colour profile appears identical to that from the Express, although on closer inspection, Datacolor’s Display Analysis feature reveals a marginally worse Delta-e result of 1.13 for our test monitor.

Pros Extensive customization; some useful extra features to play around with Cons Extras aren’t essential if you just want to calibrate and go We say

Hardware is identical to the Express version, so do you really need to unlock the extras? Overall score