Datacolor Spyder X2 Ultra

The Datacolor Spyder X2 Ultra is a powerful color calibration tool designed for photographers, videographers, and digital artists who demand the highest level of color accuracy in their work. The Spyder X2 Ultra features an expanded X2 sensor that can calibrate HDR monitors up to 2000 nits, making it ideal for working with high dynamic range content.

In addition to HDR monitors, the Spyder X2 Ultra can also calibrate digital projectors and most HDR displays, ensuring that your colors are accurate no matter what device you are working on. The remastered software features a more concise user interface, making it easier than ever to calibrate your display.

With unlimited calibration settings, the Spyder X2 Ultra allows you to create custom calibration profiles for any type of display, ensuring that your colors are always accurate. The Spyder X2 Ultra also includes video and cinema targets, including Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020, making it ideal for video and film production.

Advanced display mapping and analysis tools allow you to fine-tune your calibration settings for even greater accuracy, while soft proofing lets you preview how your images will look on different devices before you even start working on them. The Spyder X2 Ultra also supports multiple monitor calibration, making it easy to ensure that all of your displays are color accurate.

With a native USB-C connection and a USB-A adapter included, the Spyder X2 Ultra is compatible with a wide range of devices, making it a versatile and powerful tool for any creative professional.

Product Features in Detail

Spyder X2 Ultra
Color calibration tool for display monitors. Perfect for photographers, videographers, digital designers, content creators and HDR content producers/consumers with HDR/high brightness monitors/advanced calibration needs who may run multiple displays on one or more computers. Ideal for tethered shooting; outdoor shoots where bright monitors attached to a computer are essential; location shooting (photo or video) landscape photography; outdoor portraiture; in studio; on location.

New color horizons
New Spyder X2 unleashes your reach to new color horizons for photos and videos, allowing for precision monitor color calibration throughout an expansive range of brightness levels.
We’ve remastered our Spyder X software and expanded our sensor capabilities to deliver our most versatile monitor color calibration tool to date.

How to Determine Your Monitor’s cd/m2 or NITs
The brightness capability of your monitor screen (expressed as cd/m2 or NITs) can usually be found on its packaging box or the manufacturer’s website. The following link may also be helpful.

Advanced Display Mapping & Analysis
Get a better understanding of the color, brightness, contrast, gamut, tone response and white point of your monitors. You can also check screen brightness, color uniformity, and display color accuracy.

Side-by-side Multiple Computer/Display Calibration
Studio Match provides simultaneous side-by-side calibration for multiple computers/displays. Ensures consistent and accurate color reproduction across multiple connected monitors with most monitor types.

Video and Cinema Targets
Experience a more concise user interface (UI) experience.
Includes video calibration targets Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020.

Unlimited Calibration Settings
Starting with industry-standard presets, you can customize settings to meet all your calibration needs, including fully customizable gamma curves, white point, and brightness settings.

Soft Proofing
Allows you to simulate other displays and devices on your calibrated screen. For printers, you can see how prints will look for a specific printer model, paper and ink, and upload ICC printer profiles.

Room Light Monitoring
An integrated ambient light sensor measures your room light throughout the day allowing you to adjust your display brightness and contrast to ideal levels. The software can either warn you to recalibrate or do it automatically using custom profiles based on light level.