HI Rick,
I agree with you 100%, and the calibration bar is a good quick approach for brightnees and contrast. All I'm saying is that I've spent a lot of time in the past trying to make sure my monitors were calibrated as well as I could get them (mainly becasue they have been on the cheaper end) with software tools that require you to adjust the gamma for each colour channel buy subjective callibration. Since I bought the Spyder - it's made it a lot easier.

In regard to your snipe about me not having posted any photos, here is a thread in which I posted photos: http://www.ausphotography.net.au/for...OS-7D-High-ISO . Yes it's the only one; and these were probably before I got the Spyder anyway.

I don't get onto the forum very often and was planning on starting to posting some photos soon to get some feedback, but now I'm starting to feel unwelcome.