--- product_id: 13773043 title: "Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100)" brand: "datacolor" price: "32857 kr" currency: ISK in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Datacolor" url: https://www.desertcart.is/products/13773043-datacolor-spyder5express-designed-for-hobbyist-photographers-s5x100 store_origin: IS region: Iceland --- # Room light adaptive brightness Display performance analysis 5-minute fast calibration Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100) **Brand:** datacolor **Price:** 32857 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎨 See your photos like never before—color calibrated, confidence guaranteed! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100) by datacolor - **How much does it cost?** 32857 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.is](https://www.desertcart.is/products/13773043-datacolor-spyder5express-designed-for-hobbyist-photographers-s5x100) ## Best For - datacolor enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted datacolor brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Precision in Minutes:** Achieve perfect color accuracy in just 5 minutes—no more guesswork. - • **Multi-Monitor Mastery:** Evaluate and compare all your laptop and desktop displays effortlessly. - • **Print-Ready Perfection:** Cut down costly print-edit cycles with true-to-life color matching every time. - • **Before & After Confidence:** Visualize your calibration impact with side-by-side photo comparisons. - • **Adaptive Brightness Control:** Automatically adjusts monitor brightness to reveal every shadow and highlight. ## Overview The Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS is a fast, easy-to-use color calibration tool designed for hobbyist photographers. It ensures your laptop and desktop displays show true-to-life colors by calibrating in under five minutes, adapting brightness based on ambient light, and providing before-and-after comparisons. This device helps reduce wasted ink and paper by improving print accuracy and allows you to analyze multiple monitors for consistent color performance. ## Description Simple color accuracy solution for monitors to help you see true colors on screen and achieve better print matching. Easy and fast calibration for laptops and desktops. Please make sure that your display has been powered up for at least 30 minutes prior to doing a calibration Review: Spyder5 Express - I have two desktops and two laptops at my home. I started this venture when I sent in photos to be printed out in a photo book and the pictures came out horribly. Low contrast, low brightness and just terrible. I had a copy of one of the digital photos that I had sent to be printed and decided to check it on all of the screens. Well, it looked different on every screen and only looked good on the computer screen that I had used to edit and upload pictures for printing. Calibrated all using the datacolor software and was quite happy with the results. I felt it did a real nice job with the screens I calibrated. A heck of a lot better than what I had. I then decided to test how close all the screens were to being equal by testing each screen with a test digital photo. Although close, there was still some differences but again, not too bad. Three of the screens looked pretty good and one of the laptops was not good. I calibrated the laptop two more times with the same poor results. I bought the laptop for my wife and it is only about 8 months old and not even used all that much. Anyway I ended up researching my issue and found a lot of useful info as well as a lot of confusing info. I came back to desertcart site to read read reviews that had been posted by owners of the Spyder5 Express. I noticed that several reviews complained that the datacolor software was just ok but there was a lot better software available. The popular Software was DisplayCal and Argyll which work together. DisplayCal is the GUI while Argyll is the software that does all the work. I figured what do I have to lose and I tried it. It was amazing and the laptop that was very poor, popped back to life again after running the calibration procedure. The calibration procedure takes about two hours but is well worth the time since all of my screens now look even better since I did recalibrate them as well with this new software. I was totally impressed how it brought the problem laptop back to life. In my opinion, the Spyder5 Express works good using the recommended software but works fantastic using DisplayCal and Argyll software. DisplayCal and Argyll are free by the way!! The site does ask for donations and I for one will certainly make a donation because of the fantastic product they have. I am extremely happy with my computer screens now. Now what I see on my screen is what I should see when I get my photos professionally printed. Review: A must have if you use a TV for your monitor! - Wasn't sure about this based on some of the other reviews - but it worked perfectly for me! I recently purchased a 40" 4k TV to use as a computer monitor. The color levels on the TV seem just fine when using my Nvidia Shield for watching movie or TV content, but it left much to be desired when using it for a computer monitor. The colors where noticeably off to the point it was starting to drive me a little crazy. Hopping between my other computer/laptop monitors to the TV monitor really made me notice the difference. So I took the plunge hoping this would help correct the problem and WOW oh WOW - what a massive difference it made. I didn't even bother with their software or drivers and went straight to DisplayCAL as many other reviews recommend. Installed the Argyll CMS and the driver for the Spyder 5 via DisplayCAL without issue. Using default settings calibration took around an hour for me give or take. Totally worth it! I was so pleased with the results I am planning on running a longer calibration session overnight, which from what I've read will result in an even better calibration. That being said the default settings made a massive difference and have left me very satisfied. I could instantly see the difference and it actually feels like I'm looking at a monitor and not a TV with washed out colors now. ## Features - Advanced color accuracy solution for all of your laptop and desktop displays - See, share and print your images just as you intended with confidence. Fast and easy, full calibration takes only about five minutes to ensure color accuracy. - Room light monitoring determines optimal monitor brightness so you see fine shadow detail and highlights in your photos, ensuring your edited images match your prints. - “Before and After” evaluation of your calibration results using your own photographs, to focus on details that are important to you. - Display Analysis feature lets you evaluate and compare the performance of all of your laptop and desktop monitors. - In less than five minutes, Spyder5PRO calibrates your monitor to ensure color accuracy and consistency. Not only will photo editing be easier, you will spend less time in the “print-edit-print” cycle and waste less ink and paper. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #465,410 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #1,537 in Motion Detectors (Electronics) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 885 Reviews | ## Images ![Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71nFlFxob1L.jpg) ![Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81CZD4cTDCL.jpg) ![Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71-HW33YZKL.jpg) ![Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100) - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81rbZjlkRuL.jpg) ![Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100) - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71rd83ajSVL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Style** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spyder5 Express *by P***L on March 20, 2017* I have two desktops and two laptops at my home. I started this venture when I sent in photos to be printed out in a photo book and the pictures came out horribly. Low contrast, low brightness and just terrible. I had a copy of one of the digital photos that I had sent to be printed and decided to check it on all of the screens. Well, it looked different on every screen and only looked good on the computer screen that I had used to edit and upload pictures for printing. Calibrated all using the datacolor software and was quite happy with the results. I felt it did a real nice job with the screens I calibrated. A heck of a lot better than what I had. I then decided to test how close all the screens were to being equal by testing each screen with a test digital photo. Although close, there was still some differences but again, not too bad. Three of the screens looked pretty good and one of the laptops was not good. I calibrated the laptop two more times with the same poor results. I bought the laptop for my wife and it is only about 8 months old and not even used all that much. Anyway I ended up researching my issue and found a lot of useful info as well as a lot of confusing info. I came back to Amazon site to read read reviews that had been posted by owners of the Spyder5 Express. I noticed that several reviews complained that the datacolor software was just ok but there was a lot better software available. The popular Software was DisplayCal and Argyll which work together. DisplayCal is the GUI while Argyll is the software that does all the work. I figured what do I have to lose and I tried it. It was amazing and the laptop that was very poor, popped back to life again after running the calibration procedure. The calibration procedure takes about two hours but is well worth the time since all of my screens now look even better since I did recalibrate them as well with this new software. I was totally impressed how it brought the problem laptop back to life. In my opinion, the Spyder5 Express works good using the recommended software but works fantastic using DisplayCal and Argyll software. DisplayCal and Argyll are free by the way!! The site does ask for donations and I for one will certainly make a donation because of the fantastic product they have. I am extremely happy with my computer screens now. Now what I see on my screen is what I should see when I get my photos professionally printed. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must have if you use a TV for your monitor! *by Z***A on August 1, 2016* Wasn't sure about this based on some of the other reviews - but it worked perfectly for me! I recently purchased a 40" 4k TV to use as a computer monitor. The color levels on the TV seem just fine when using my Nvidia Shield for watching movie or TV content, but it left much to be desired when using it for a computer monitor. The colors where noticeably off to the point it was starting to drive me a little crazy. Hopping between my other computer/laptop monitors to the TV monitor really made me notice the difference. So I took the plunge hoping this would help correct the problem and WOW oh WOW - what a massive difference it made. I didn't even bother with their software or drivers and went straight to DisplayCAL as many other reviews recommend. Installed the Argyll CMS and the driver for the Spyder 5 via DisplayCAL without issue. Using default settings calibration took around an hour for me give or take. Totally worth it! I was so pleased with the results I am planning on running a longer calibration session overnight, which from what I've read will result in an even better calibration. That being said the default settings made a massive difference and have left me very satisfied. I could instantly see the difference and it actually feels like I'm looking at a monitor and not a TV with washed out colors now. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works great, but it is S L O W ! *by A***P on May 24, 2017* About the size of a demitasse cup, it controls your screen (via easily downloadable software) and generates a profile such that what you see on the screen is what will come out of a properly set up printer. I used it on 2 computers. The first one had a decrease overall in screen brightness, and the second computer had an increase; in both cases colors seemed a bit more subdued. Works well, with one caveat: The software takes a very long time to install itself. On several occasions, it seems to have stopped installing, and the screen has time to go into sleep mode. This made me abort the installation first time after 20 minutes. The second, I just let it run and went to dinner. It finished installing. The calibration process requires that in a not overly brightly lit room, you dangle the device such that it makes contact with the roughly triangular outline "place sensor here" area. You start the calibration, and the screen changes color, but sometimes looks like the computer is hung up (have faith!); takes a long time. Better to start the run before you go to lunch! ## Frequently Bought Together - Datacolor Spyder5EXPRESS – Designed for Hobbyist Photographers (S5X100) - Calibrite ColorChecker Passport Photo 2 (CCPP2) - Lightdow 12 x 12 Inch (30 x 30 cm) White Balance 18% Gray Reference Reflector Grey Card with Carry Bag [Folded Version] --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.is/products/13773043-datacolor-spyder5express-designed-for-hobbyist-photographers-s5x100](https://www.desertcart.is/products/13773043-datacolor-spyder5express-designed-for-hobbyist-photographers-s5x100) --- *Product available on Desertcart Iceland* *Store origin: IS* *Last updated: 2026-10-07*