September 11, 2012
Black Bear Sow And Cubs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, and the X-Rite i1 Display Pro

Here's another image from my visit to Yellowstone National Park in May this year. A Black Bear sow is nursing a cub while waiting for her other cub to descend their napping tree and nurse too.

X-Rite i1 Display Pro

I recently purchased an X-Rite i1 Display Pro to calibrate my monitors and I'm quite happy with it. I had been using a Gretag Macbeth Eye-One Display 2, or X-Rite i1 Display 2, since April 2005, and my display started to get a reddish cast after using it recently. Before the Eye-One Display2, I had been using a Datacolor Optical Spyder since January 2002 until that colorimeter also started to produce a reddish cast to my calibration profile.

Apparently, it's typical for the filters, especially the red filter, in colorimeters to degrade over time. Spectrometers, like the Colormunki Photo and i1 Pro, don't have such filters and typically remain accurate much longer. The filters in the i1 Display Pro, a colorimeter, are in a sealed enclosure that should increase longevity compared to the i1 Display 2. Note that the Colormunki Display is a colorimeter.