ColorMunki Smile

Just looking to see if anyone has used this specific color calibration tool? It looks to be a basic monitor calibration tool. And I am not looking for pro level at this point. I just want to see about getting something to make sure I am getting good consistent color since I am going to start doing processing on both a laptop and PC.
Am I wasting my money, of should I just bite the bullet and look to some of the more costly options?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I acutally own the Smile. Its a fine, simple calibrator for the money. I use it to quickly get the colors close to right on my laptop monitor once every few weeks. Although its not a pro-level tool, the prints I make are close enough for me to be happy. Its cheap, reliable, and good to have around. This is the first screen calibrator I have ever owned and cant compare to other ones. Hope that helps ya!

It does. I have about $70 in Amazon gift cards and I figure for the extra $9 I would have to pay why the heck not. I just didn't want to get it if people's experience with it is not good. I was most worried that since I will be using different machines to process now, that I want to colors to be consistent. I would not want to process on one and then open it on another machine and see completely different colors.
I think I will pull the trigger since Amazon is now doing free 1 day shipping. I can get it by next week. Thanks for the feedback.

sirquack wrote in post #16543590
It does. I have about $70 in Amazon gift cards and I figure for the extra $9 I would have to pay why the heck not. I just didn't want to get it if people's experience with it is not good. I was most worried that since I will be using different machines to process now, that I want to colors to be consistent. I would not want to process on one and then open it on another machine and see completely different colors.
I think I will pull the trigger since Amazon is now doing free 1 day shipping. I can get it by next week. Thanks for the feedback.

Glad I could help!

Well the Munki is received and installed. I did my first calibration and holy cow were my colors off. I will now be going through my LR library and my initial look is scary. I have some serious work to do to get the images to something that I would consider workable. I still can't get over how bad the colors were.

Did an additional calibration on a second laptop and a desktop to see if the colors are reasonably close on the different set ups after calibration. And I would say I am more than happy with the results. I did a image comparison before the calibration on all three devices and the two uncalibrated monitors were definitely two completely different looks than the original on a calibrated monitor. Then I did the color calibrations and did the side by side comparison again and I saw only the slightest of differences in the images. Most of it was related to brightness and that was due to the monitor brightness, not a product of the colors being different.
So for my original intent of being able to color calibrate so two different processing machines would show the colors that same, I think I found the tool that works exactly as I had hoped.

sirquack wrote in post #16549744
Well the Munki is received and installed. I did my first calibration and holy cow were my colors off. I will now be going through my LR library and my initial look is scary. I have some serious work to do to get the images to something that I would consider workable. I still can't get over how bad the colors were.

That was the same reaction that I had the first time I calibrated my monitor. I was like, well all that old stuff looks like crap..