14 DAY TRIAL // Australian manufacturer Atomos announced in a recent press release that its new color calibration product, the Atomos Spyder, is now shipping to the first clients that pre-ordered it.
The Atomos Spyder calibration tool adds to the lineup along with the award-winning camera mounted recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, as well as the pocket-sized Connect converters.
Jeromy Young, CEO and founder of Atomos, said that, “We believe color calibration and color image accuracy are paramount to a fast and efficient production process, whilst maintaining customer creativity.”
“Calibrating your screen to standard color specifications allows the user to view accurately what is being recorded, avoiding costly color correction in post-production. We believe that color normalisation should be done at the camera, not in editing,” he then added.
Atomos Spyder was developed in partnership with New Jersey based Datacolor company and provides one button color calibration for the Samurai Blade camera mounted recorder, a feature usually found only on high end monitors.
Calibrating to the SMPTE Rec 709 color space with a D65 white point 100% gamut has never been easier. The Spyder features an extreme precision 7 sensor calibration and comes with an USB to LANC serial control unit for automatic calibration.
Moreover, the color calibration unit allows you to make fine adjustments to lift, gain and gamma per channel after the initial calibration was made.
In addition to that, the Atomos Spyder can also be used as a standard calibration unit for any monitor or computer as long as you own the Datacolor software sold separately.
With Atomos Spyder, calibrating to 6500K ITU-Rec709 white point with delta-E better than 2 down to 20% grey can be done with a single push of a button.
The Windows version of Atomos Spyder is available for purchase through the Atomos Worldwide reseller network at a price of $149 / £89 / €109. A Mac compatible version is also in development.