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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Rudy Torres on January 26, 2010, 06:38:50 pm

Title: Colorbug???
Post by: Rudy Torres on January 26, 2010, 06:38:50 pm

Check this out everyone...

http://seachangeronline.com/html/colorbug.html (http://seachangeronline.com/html/colorbug.html)

$950.00 buckaroos
Just buy a color meter.

- Rudy • El Paso, Texas

Title: Colorbug???
Post by: JoeKitchen on January 26, 2010, 08:35:25 pm

Quote from: Rudy Torres

Check this out everyone...

http://seachangeronline.com/html/colorbug.html (http://seachangeronline.com/html/colorbug.html)

$950.00 buckaroos
Just buy a color meter.

- Rudy • El Paso, Texas

Anyone really use color light meters today?  I have never encountered a reason to use one with digital.  Just a WhiBal and ExpoDisc.  $130 total.

Title: Colorbug???
Post by: digitaldog on January 26, 2010, 08:41:51 pm

Color meters some of us old farts used or have (something like an Minolta III) isn’t at all useful for digital. A Spectrophotometer can be (depending what kind of geek you are and want to measure). Anything that gives you a value in Kelvin is providing a value within a range, not a specific color.

I didn’t spend too long on the bug site but I don’t see if this is a Colorimeter or a Spectrophotometer (at that price point, I’d hope the later).

Title: Colorbug???
Post by: CBarrett on January 26, 2010, 08:50:59 pm

I used to carry a Gossen Color Meter Pro...  I found it remarkably useless.  Consistently called for 15 cc too much Magenta.

So don't miss film.

Title: Colorbug???
Post by: digitaldog on January 27, 2010, 04:50:09 pm

Just got an email back that this is an RGB Colorimeter.

Title: Colorbug???
Post by: CBarrett on January 27, 2010, 08:04:59 pm

I just thought of a goofy / cool iPhone App.... Light meter.

Use the phone's (or iPod touch's) built in camera to read light levels of a scene and have an interface that looks like a light meter.  Now I just need a programmer to partner with and I'm ready to watch the 10's of dollars pour in from the app store!

Title: Colorbug???
Post by: Craig Murphy on May 20, 2010, 05:36:10 pm

Old thread but..... How would you know, for example,  how much green a given florescent light was putting out in order to gel a strobe to match without a color meter?   You can do a custom white balance for a given strobe unit but your background is still going to be screwed up if you don't know what kind of light its putting out.