
(You go through a procedure where all displays being calibrated and matched to each other are evaluated for the maximum luminance they can support at the target color temperature then the brighter display(s) are adjust down to match the luminance of the least-bright display so that when they're all calibrated, they'll all be at the same luminance).

The Elite software for Spyder4 (and later, Spyder5, and now, SpyderX, the current sensor, as well) has a feature called StudioMatch that takes this into account. Unless you're using the Spyder4 Elite software, you don't have the ability to calibrate and match multiple displays as closely as possible to each other, because luminance/brightness is important. Differences between displays based on the calibrated luminance, for instance. If you have a mix of modern displays and they have different (and newer) backlight technologies, then trying to calibrate them with a sensor that was designed years ago for older displays is the problem.Įven beyond that, there are other issues. Spyder4 was released at a time when the most widely used displays were standard gamut sRGB, and display backlights were a mix that still included now-deprecated CCFL. It depends on WHAT kind of displays that you're calibrating. You're using many-years-old technology from the Spyder4, which has been discontinued for "many" years at this point. I am going to try calibrating the laptop as well but am wondering if anyone has any thoughts? When I told the Spyder to measure the ambient light, the results were even worse. After 3 tries, one of my monitors looks similar to my uncalibrated MacBook and the other monitor is massively different.

I used the Spyder software as well as Display Cal. I have blackout curtains in my room and essentially zero ambient light so I set the Spyder to ignore the room reading and calibrate to 6500K. I have been trying to calibrate two monitors with a Spyder 4 Pro and am not really having much luck.
