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 Easy Color Correction July 3, 2010
TenFive (Houston, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Huey is easy to install and use. Insert the accompanying software, plug in the USB cord, and the Huey does the rest. In 5 minutes, both monitors were calibrated perfectly to ambient lighting conditions. Can't get any easier than that.
 Incompatible with Windows Vista June 19, 2010
Giovanni Abrate (Florida, USA)
What a disappointment! The unit looks neat and I was looking forward to using it. It installed OK, but a warning message came up, telling me of known compatibility issues with Vista. I downloaded the latest drivers and the system ran, but gave me a very green cast!!! After that, it would not restart, so I uninstalled. Even after the system was uninstalled, it took over my color management ad gave me green screens! I eventually had to do a system reset to an older date, to get rid of the Huey!!! What a terrible experience. It's going back for a refund.
Great unit, but could use more information June 7, 2010
R. Iredale (Pacific Northwest, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, admittedly this is the "Huey," not the "pro" version, but still.
Got the unit, installed the software, two minutes later the Huey determined the proper ICC profile. I do a lot of video editing and think I've developed a pretty decent eye for monitor calibration. Even so, Huey made a subtle but useful improvement on gray scale.
What I DIDN'T like was the holistic verbiage about which setting to use. For example, did you want "gaming," or maybe "web/photography," or even "graphic design/video?" Turns out these three settings actually meant an illuminant of D65 (neutral color temperature, neither yellowish or bluish) and gammas of 1.8, 2.2, and 2.5 respectively. As if a gamer wanted to use 1.8! (2.2 is the universal standard.)
Reminded me a bit of some of the audio equalizer settings you see on junk equipment: do you want "jazz," or "club," or maybe "vocals?" No thanks, just a flat response for me, thank you. That's the purpose of audio gear, after all.
Anyway, upgrading to the Huey Pro version gets you verbiage that tells it like it is. You want D65? Click here. You want 2.2 gamma? Click here. That's how it should be.
23 August 2010 UPDATE:
Upgraded to HueyPro software/firmware. Results exactly as before. Still very happy with the unit. I don't use the room lighting compensation feature, nor the recalibration reminders. It's an LCD panel, not a CRT for heaven's sake.
Item works as described...great for the photography hobbyist May 6, 2010
Jennifer (Boise, ID)
The device was very easy to install and is very easy to use. I haven't printed any images at the lab yet, but I have printed some images at my own photo printer and the colors printed did closely match my computer screen. I believe the difference I experienced was due to the photo paper I am using and not the huey's calibration. That said, if you are looking for an exact match, I would recommend you spring for the more expensive version. I would, if I were a professional. The price and performance are just right for me. YMMV
 Both extremes - Windows beware! April 9, 2010
Jeff Sprague (California)
Short and sweet: works great, and as-advertised on my Mac from Tiger through Snow Leopard.
I just updated my PC to Windows 7 and Huey fails to apply any adjustments at all. Completely incompatible with my graphics card (older ATI Radeon) although it worked fine with Vista. I just finished installing the "Windows 7 Compatible" HUEY drivers... didn't change a thing. Maybe you'll have better luck with later graphics cards, but be warned... Microsoft and Pantone are at it again.
UPDATE: Bumping my review back up to 4 stars as the problem I was having does not appear to by Pantone's fault. Turns out a lot of graphics-related stuff stopped working with Windows 7. When I disabled the 5-year old Radeon and went back to the Intel on-board graphics, everything, including the Huey, worked as before. Microsoft and ATI apparently don't believe you should keep hardware longer than 5 years.
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