Computer Monitor Changes Color Calibration

The monitor is excellent - color accuracy (Adobe RGB), uniformity, etc... probably the best manufacturer of monitors with hardware calibration (built-in LUT)... with second place to BenQ. I just wish hardware calibration monitors were less expensive (sad face)!

Good quality product Best monitor color calibration tool I love it...

I ordered this monitor on Saturday evening, Dec. 2, and received it in Bethesda, MD, early the following Monday morning. Well done, as usual, B&H Photo! I unpacked it and set it up, only to find that the proprietary BenQ Palette Master Ultimate software wouldn't recognize either the monitor or my colorimeter. You need the BenQ software to perform a hardware calibration. Other calibration software, even Calman's at $2000, will only perform a software calibration. I called BenQ tech support and was delighted to discover it's U.S.-based. I was not so delighted to have them tell me, however, that the problem with the software had arisen a few weeks ago, and they did not yet have a solution. The BenQ engineers thought a recent Windows update might have made changes that caused the problem. After a few calls, the BenQ tech support staff eventually escalated me to a BenQ technical support manager. She could not have been more diligent in working with me, and after a few days, she provided new drivers for my computer's USB serial computer. Miracle of miracles, that worked! But beware! It only worked when I attached the colorimeter to the side of the monitor via a USB-A port there and to the monitor to the computer via the BenQ-supplied USB-A to USB-B cable.  Palette Master Ultimate would not recognize the colorimeter if I used its native USB-C connection when connected to either the monitor or the computer. There were times early on when I thought I would have to pack up the monitor and send it back to B&H Photo, no small task because the monitor comes in an extraordinarily large box and its packaging is like a Rubik's cube. BenQ's tech support, however, did itself proud! The image quality of the monitor is outstanding, and with the software now working, I couldn't be happier with my purchase.

I’ve been using this monitor for color grading, and it has been superb. The colors look great and and the self calibration is a nice feature. Overall, I’m impressed and recommend it.

Beautiful monitor! Has all needed color spaces for colorist and fits great in a small studio. For easier calibration I recommend downloading LG calibration studio from official website.

I'm always reluctant to purchase the first production run of a new product, but I've been using SW240 for a couple of weeks -- enough time to report that it is a first class monitor with accurate and repeatable results. No dead/stuck pixels; uniform brightness and sharpness. Each monitor is factory-measured for gray-scale and color deviation from standard RGB profiles. In my cse the deviation was imperceptible (delta-E 1). This was borne out by custom calibration/verification using (provided) calibration software that writes (flashes) results into the monitors LUT for storage. Note that used must provide their own colorimeter-puck for custom calibration. On the down side, the documentation could be better; and Technical Support staff could be a bit more available, and more knowledgeable. While the monitors OSD menus are quite comprehensive (more than a dozen color profiles), they somewhat cumbersome. On balance, a very good wide-gamut monitor with built-in LUTs, at a very good price (made even better by the included $100 monitor hood - see separate review).

Solid monitor! As suspected, color needed only tiny amount of calibration out of the box for photo editing.

Great background. The B&H color reference is very close to the real color, of course, you have to pay attention to your monitor calibration. In fact B&H reference shall be better than the SAVAGE posted on its website. But definitely I love this purple thing.

I don't work with video content or photo editing but I was tired of dealing with multiple monitor setups that weren't even close to being color matched. The SpyderX fixes it as best as it can, depending on your monitor's color capabilities. It's going to make cheap monitors look mediocre at best, and top-of-the-line monitors look excellent. Your end video/photo projects and your eyesight will thank you for your calibration. Most people don't realize how too bright their monitors really are. Each monitor's calibration took under 5 minutes on my Win10 desktop. Well worth it's price, even better when it's on sale.

You can see the difference in before and after at the end of calibration. For me, the after has always been better. Suprisingly, the monitor color shifts in less than a months time. Something I did not know prior to using the Spyder. Glad I bought it.