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| Brand | X-Rite |
| Color | Black |
| Style | Colorchecker Passport Photo |
| Special Feature | Portable |
| Age Range (Description) | Adult |
About this item
- Ideal for photographers shooting still images in a Raw workflow
- Creates professional, custom camera profiles in minutes using the industry standard 24 patch Classic target.
- Combines 3 photographic color-balance targets into one pocket size protective, multi-positionable patented case that adjusts to any scene
- EXCLUSIVE X-RITE TECHNOLOGY! Dual Illuminant profile creation – takes into account two different light sources to create a single profile which can be applied to a variety of lighting conditions
- Easy to use with Adobe Lightroom Plug-In or stand alone software for use in other image editing software
- Use Creative Enhancement target to quickly check and evaluate shadow details or highlight clipping; understand and control color shifting or neutralize and create a look with one click.
- Take one step closer to professional results creating custom, in-camera white-balance. Capturing a consistent white point in a set of images allows for adjustments to different lighting conditions and helps eliminate color casting
- Supported by several 3rd party software programs
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X-Rite Photo and Video
X-Rite Photo and Video offer a wide range of color management solutions to fit the needs of photographers, videographers, designers and image editors of all levels, that demand accurate color within their workflow.
X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
ColorChecker Passport Photo combines 3 photographic targets into one pocket-sized protective case that self-stands to adjust to any scene.
Reduce your image processing time and improve quality control in your Raw or JPEG workflow with the powerful color capabilities of the ColorChecker Passport Photo.
Quickly and easily capture accurate color, instantly enhance portraits and landscapes, and maintain color control and consistency from capture to edit.
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| Product Dimensions | 8.5 x 11 x 1.75 inches |
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| Item Weight | 3.52 ounces |
| ASIN | B002NU5UW8 |
| Item model number | MSCCPP |
| National Stock Number | 6760-01-584-3647 |
| Customer Reviews |
4.6 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,502 in Digital Camera Accessories |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | September 15, 2009 |
| Manufacturer | X-Rite |
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Product Description
Color Control and Creativity for Photography – from Capture to Edit ColorChecker Passport Photo includes three powerful photographic targets in a portable protective case, enabling you to reduce your image processing time and improve quality control in your Raw or JPEG workflow. Quickly and easily capture accurate color, instantly enhance portraits and landscapes, and maintain color control and consistency from capture to edit. You’ll achieve superior color results in a fraction of the time.
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ColorChecker Passport
Windows
- Microsoft Windows XP 32 or 64 bit (with latest Service Pack installed)
- Microsoft Windows Vista® 32 or 64 bit (with latest Service Pack installed)
- Microsoft Windows 7, 32 or 64 bit (with latest Service Pack installed)
- 512MB RAM
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP or better CPU
- 200 MB of available disk space
- User must have Administrator rights to install, uninstall the application.
- Monitor resolution of 1024x768 pixels or higher
- Internet connection required for software update
Macintosh
- Mac OSX 10.5.x, 10.6, or 10.7 (with the latest updates installed)
- G4 Processor or higher (Intel recommended)
- 512 MB RAM
- 350 MB of available disk space
- User must have Administrator rights to install and uninstall the application
- Monitor resolution of 1024x768 pixels or higher
- Internet connection required for software update
About the ColorChecker Passport
ColorChecker Passport is a powerful 'capture to edit' color solution for any photographer looking for more accurate, consistent color and creative flexibility. And when you combine ColorChecker Passport with Adobe® Imaging solutions you'll gain even greater benefits. ColorChecker Passport combines three photographic targets into one pocket size protective, self-standing case that adjusts to any scene. Together with the included camera calibration software, you get the ultimate in functionality, flexibility and portability.
There are so many ways to incorporate X-Rite ColorChecker Passport into your Raw workflow. Whether you take advantage of the entire solution, or just a couple of ColorChecker Passport's many features, you'll realize improved quality and productivity almost immediately.
CREATIVE ENHANCEMENT TARGET
Two rows of warming and cooling patches in the middle guide you to create pleasing and repeatable edits. Creatively refine the color of your image by adding warmth to skin tones or boost the deep greens or blues in a landscape. Simply click through the patches to view the adjustment, and select the one that provides your optimal look. Then, save the setting and apply it to other images that were shot under that same lighting to create pleasing edits - it's that easy!
When it comes to clipping, the Enhancement target highlights the power of working in Raw. A row of clipping patches across the bottom serve as a visual reference for judging, controlling and editing images for shadow details or highlight clipping. Although it may appear from a preview that shadow or highlight details have been lost, it is possible that the processing software just clipped them and they are still available in the Raw file. With some careful adjustments, you may be able to bring them back.
The clipping patches are separated into two groups: light and dark. The light patches are ordered with 1/3 of an F-stop difference between them. The dark patches are ordered the same, with the exception of the last patch; which represents the blackest patch in the ColorChecker target. The exposure difference between the darkest and next darkest patch is approximately 1/10th of a stop, and the dynamic range of the target is about 32:1 (5 stops). In Adobe applications, use these patches along with the clipping preview to ensure you are not losing details.
Across the top of the Enhancement target, the top HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) row includes 8 spectrum patches to ensure color fidelity across all hues so you can evaluate and edit for any color shifts.
WHITE BALANCE TARGET
The ColorChecker White Balance target is an all-new spectrally flat target that provides a neutral reference point across different lighting conditions that you encounter during a photo shoot. Since the target reflects light equally across the visible spectrum, creating an in-camera custom white balance can properly compensate for varying lighting. You'll be able to:
- Eliminate color casts
- Improve the color preview on your camera's display so your histograms are more reliable
- Make post production color editing faster and easier by eliminating the need to neutralize each image individually
Setting a custom white balance for each lighting situation will make the previews on your camera's built in display more color correct, make your histograms more reliable, and speed up post production color editing. Raw shooters can capture anytime during the session to gain these benefits, while JPEG shooters should make it your first shot.
CLASSIC TARGET
The ColorChecker Passport includes a travel-sized version of the Classic 24 patch target. When combined with camera calibration software you can produce DNG profiles of your camera's response to scene lighting to get consistent, predictable and repeatable results from image to image and camera to camera.
The Classic target also provides a visual point of color reference. Photograph it in the same lighting as your images; then open it in your photo processing software as a reference to help with color correction. Each of the 24 color patches represents the colors of natural objects, such as sky blue, skin tones and leaf green; and each patch reflects light just like its real world counterpart. Each square is individually colored using a solid tone to produce pure, flat, rich color without dots or mixed tints.
The Classic can help you make global corrections based on accurate information. If you shoot a large number of images that all require the same color correction, you know that editing a few key photos and applying your changes can sometimes change colors you didn't intend to be changed. A shot of the ColorChecker Classic captured under the same lighting as your images will provide a point of reference, so you can see exactly how changes will affect the rest of your colors before you apply them. Since your changes can be applied to one photo or a group of images, you'll achieve consistency throughout your images.
CAMERA CALIBRATION SOFTWARE With the included ColorChecker Passport Camera Calibration Application and Lightroom® Plug-In, you can quickly and easily build DNG profiles for Adobe® Imaging solutions including Lightroom®, Photoshop®, Photoshop® Elements, Camera Raw (ACR) and Adobe® Bridge.
This new advanced profiling technology provides excellent results with just the small 24-patch ColorChecker Classic target, producing DNG profiles that work exceptionally well, even in unusual artificial light sources. Plus, software auto-detection will locate the target automatically. Whether you are shooting with just one camera or multiple cameras, you'll easily establish an accurate color foundation and maintain control of your colors. A very powerful feature of the software is the ability to create dual-illuminant DNG profiles. This type of profile takes into account two different light sources to create a single profile, which can be applied to an even wider variety of lighting conditions. Dual-Illuminant profiles can be made with any two of twenty-one supported illuminants, allowing you to create a profile for just about any kind of lighting condition you may encounter. Dual-illuminant profiles allow you the freedom to move between the represented lighting conditions without switching profiles.
- Camera calibration for Raw shooters enables greater capability to calibrate and correct color
- Accurate color gives a consistent foundation for creative interpretation
- Minimize color differences between cameras and lenses
- Adapt for mixed lighting
- Make color balance match across different scenes
SHOOTING JPEG NOT RAW?
You'll still gain many great benefits when you include ColorChecker Passport in your workflow.
White Balance Target
- Ensure your JPEG files are captured with the correct white point
- Eliminate the chance of any extreme white balance errors which cannot be corrected later in JPEG workflow
- Save time on post production edits of each individual shot
Creative Enhancement Target
- Evaluate and optimize shadow details or highlight clipping with gray ramp patches
- Use as visual reference for color spectrum and color adjustment with HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) patches
- Warm or cool images
Classic Target
- Photograph the Classic target in the same lighting as your images and use as a visual reference to help with color correction
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Introduction
Recently I took delivery of an Xrite Color Checker Passport and I must confess, I own probably every such device ever hawked by the camera con men.. always searching for something that really helps not only get the proper on-site white balance, but the proper balance of colors as well. This product includes plug-ins for ACR CS5 and Lightroom.
Most people.. when you talk "Correct White Balance" they focus on skin tones, and indeed correct skin tones are indeed the most obvious and easy way to tell if someone got the colors close.. assuming there's a person with skin in the composition. However, it's entirely possible ane even most common, to get the skin tones close but still have your color balance totally off. This is especially true in mixed light.
There is nothing so "right" about an image then the proper balance of color throughout the entire exposure and tonal range. We've all seen them, and they almost always occur under very unusual perfect light or by way of Photoshop and a real experienced pro. But what does the normal guy do when there's heavy cloud cover and you're taking a picture of your son in front of a colorful building? Do you want it to look like its drab and dreary? This usually means their skin tones are grayish and not natural looking at all, and the surrounding colors are flat and don't look right.
I've only used the Color Checker Passport for a week, but I plan on testing it much more in the coming week(s). Regardless, it's easy to see this device is in a class by itself and not only does it help you obtain the most perfect on-site White Balance of any device I've previously used, but it also computer generates a custom DNG color profile for each lighting situation that can instantly and easily be applied to one to hundreds of images at a time.
How long does it take to use it? Just two shots, two exposures and you've got what you need for each lighting situation. About 3-5 seconds depending on the technique required by the camera to set a custom WB.. and even the custom WB is optional. You can still build the custom DNG profile with just one shot.. awesome technology!
Hands on Demonstration with Examples in Lightroom 3.0
First, using the spot focusing area in your viewfinder fill it on the grey card contained in the Passport. Follow the directions for your specific camera to create a custom white balance. This step is optional, but recommended and for many this custom white balance will be head and shoulders better than their auto white balance setting or what they can do by eye. But we'll take it several steps further towards better accuracy below.. J
With the Canon 5d Mark II, you take an exposure/image of the grey card, go to the menu systems second tab (or be smart and add these commands to your custom menu) and choose "Custom White Balance", it will automatically show the last image you captured (but you can spin the wheel and choose more), hit the "set" button in the middle of your big wheel, and it will then ask you "Use WB Data from this image for Custom WB?" Choose "OK" and then set your camera to use the "Custom White Balance" setting (add this to your custom menu too).
Next, take a picture of the color checker portion of the Passport in the light you'll be using. You don't need to fill the frame with it, but I've found it needs to occupy approximately 15-20% of the frame to work. Otherwise it won't register with the automatic profiler in the plug-in.
Once you've imported your images into Lightroom you can see here where the standard color profile is selected by default in the "Camera Calibration" area of Lightroom.
Right click on the image, navigate to "Export", and then to "Color Checker Passport" and click on it.
Now it will ask you for a name for the custom profile you're about to create. In this case I named it "N1."
If the profile creation was successful you'll get a dialog box telling you the profile was completed and you'll need to exit and then re-enter Lightroom before the new profile is available.
If like me, you took several "sets" of images in different locations, just go ahead and create all your profiles and then exit/enter Lightroom once.
Now you can select your profile and `immediately' you'll see the effects. Notice the blue shirt has drastically changed (to the right hue) and the green paint as well.. not to mention the skin tones are near perfect.
Now you have the opportunity to use the "Warming Squares" to change the skin tones to your taste. As I've said many times before, the "correct" white balance might not be the "best" white balance, so these squares allow you to adjust to taste. Use the White Balance Eyedropper and select your first warming square.
Note 1: The Eyedropper doesn't `stick' with screen captures so I put a black dot on the selected warming square.
Note 2: The color checker is upside down, though it really doesn't matter.
Notice the subtle change when selecting the second warming square?
And another subtle change with the third warming square?
The first warming square was too blue, the second warming square was too neutral, and the third warming square was too yellow.. but the fourth warming square was just right and I ate the entire bowl.. wait.. wrong story.. but you get the idea..
With years of experience adjusting white balance both by eye and many other means, I could not achieve this sort of accuracy. It's stunning how easily it is to achieve perfect white balance and then bespoke skin tones using this device.
Summary
I'm easily seeing 'more capability' in the realm of color and exposure from my cameras, and this includes my professional DSLR's, my new Sony NEX-5, and even my point and shoots, than any single feature or improvement I can think of other than proper exposure in the first place.
I'll be incorporating this into my workshops immediately, both in the field and software sections. I'm obviously impressed and I plan on mastering the smaller points of this device over the next few weeks.
And of course it only has a consistent and proper effect if used on a color managed system, so once again I'll be running some future pieces on properly color managing your monitors, your browsers, your applications, and how to tell if they're done right and which color versions each is compatible with.
(I'm off to throw a few previous such devices in that ever growing box of "equipment I no longer use" with great pleasure)
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For the materials, the plastic cover just sucks, it keeps making those crackling sound every time I opened/closed it that I worried I'm going to break it very soon. For a $100 product this has to be better.
Software wise the support is pretty much non-existing. I don't have the high end digital camera and I mainly work with scanner and phone images, which doesn't produce the DNG file where the x-rite software only supports. And the x-rite website has zero article that talk about how to deal with other formats like png or tiff... Fortunately, there's a software called 3D LUT Creator that fills in this gap, and it produces a lut file that can be use in both video and image production, which in my opinion, much more flexible than dng.
Also I doubt that the calibration profile made by the x-rite software actually produces an accurate match. Here's my reason: I have watched a lot of tutorials before I brought this colorchecker, and the basic workflow to get a calibration profile is this, first white balance, then adjust exposure so that the "white neutral patch" on the checker reached like 96% and the "black patch" reached like 4%, and then throw that into the x-rite software and let it do its magic, after that apply the calibration profile to the image without the exposure adjustment, and to see a few patches in the checker shifted their colors as a result. But here's the catch, every patch of color on the colorchecker should have a definite value, for example, the "black" patch has a rgb value of (49, 49, 51), then the first confusion is "why are you pulling the black down to 4%", which is equal to rgb(10, 10, 10)? And ideally, If you want to make the colorchecker brighter while still maintaining color accuracy, you can apply a fixed exposure to the entire colorchecker so that all the values shift with that number. But the x-rite workflow was telling people to pull away the exposure of the black and white when preparing the colorchecker target, which raise another confusion, "how are you going to maintain color accuracy?"
Another problem I have with the x-rite workflow is that it's trying to maintain the exposure of the original image in its results, but what happen if I don't want that. For example, I have a low exposure image and I want to match the exposure to the white patch value of the colorchecker, that is rgb( 245, 245, 243)? They have no option to do it.
So overall, the product itself is great. But if you're like me who work mainly with non dng image files, you will need to get yourself a copy of 3d lut creator or this colorchecker will be useless.
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Ein wesentliches Merkmal des ColorChecker Passport ist die Farbkontrollkarte mit 24 Farbfeldern, die einer verkleinerten Version des X-Rite ColorChecker Classic entspricht. Diese Kontrollkarte hat sich seit ihrer Einführung im Jahr 1976 zu einem Standard entwickelt. Ihre Farbeigenschaften sind vielfach untersucht und dokumentiert worden, sodass die Kontrollkarte sehr gut zu Kalibrierzwecken herangezogen werden kann. Leider liefert der Hersteller solche Angaben nicht mit; allerdings sind die erforderlichen Daten im Internet frei verfügbar. Eine wichtige Einschränkung bei der Verwendung dieser Kontrollkarte besteht darin, dass das Farbfeld Nr. 18 „cyan“ außerhalb des sRGB-Farbraums liegt und daher bei Anwendung dieses Farbraums nicht korrekt dargestellt oder bei der Kalibrierung berücksichtigt werden kann. Bei Anwendung des Adobe-RGB-Farbraums besteht diese Einschränkung nicht.
In der Produktbeschreibung und Anleitung wird der Eindruck erweckt, man könne mithilfe des ColorChecker Passport sogar eine automatische Farbkontrolle im Raw-Workflow durchführen. Zu diesem Zweck wird ein spezielles Programm mitgeliefert, das aus einem Bild, auf dem die Kontrollkarte mit den 24 Farbfeldern zu sehen ist, automatisch ein Farbprofil erzeugen soll, das dann für alle anderen unter gleichen Bedingungen aufgenommenen Bilder verwendetet werden kann. Tatsächlich funktioniert eine solche automatische Farbkontrolle im Raw-Workflow jedoch überhaupt nicht. Zunächst muss das Bild nämlich vom ursprünglichen Raw-Format in das DNG-Format umgewandelt, womit gleich am Anfang der Raw-Workflow mit seinen besonderen Vorteilen verlassen werden muss. Das mitgelieferte Programm erkennt auf dem DNG-Bild meistens die 24 Farbfelder tatsächlich automatisch; andernfalls könnte man die Farbfelder auch manuell markieren. Anschließend wird automatisch ein Farbprofil erzeugt, worauf der Anwender keinen Einfluss hat. Das dabei erhaltene Farbprofil ist jedoch in jedem Fall vollkommen unbrauchbar. Auffällig ist insbesondere die viel zu große Farbsättigung. Typischerweise beträgt nach der Kalibrierung die mittlere Farbsättigung der 24 Farbfelder grob geschätzt 125 % vom theoretischen Wert. Vier Farbfelder (Nr. 12 „orange yellow“, Nr. 13 „blue“, Nr. 16. „yellow“ und Nr. 18 „cyan“) befinden sich danach sogar außerhalb des sRGB-Farbraums. Neben den drastischen Fehlern bei der Farbsättigung sind auch signifikante Abweichungen bei den Farbtönen erkennbar. Diese Mängel treten selbst bei Bildern mit genau richtiger Belichtung und richtigem Weißabgleich auf. Bei Bildern mit stärkeren Abweichungen, also gerade wenn eine automatische Farbkorrektur sinnvoll wäre, kann das Programm oft gar kein Profil erstellen, obwohl es die Farbfelder im Bild erkennt.
Etwas bessere Ergebnisse erreicht man, wenn man statt des mitgelieferten Programms das kostenlos erhältliche Programm Adobe DNG Profile Editor verwendet. Auch dieses Programm kann aus einem Bild im DNG-Format, auf dem die Kontrollkarte mit den 24 Farbfeldern zu sehen ist, ein Farbprofil erzeugen. Die Erkennung der Farbfelder erfolgt dabei nicht automatisch, sondern manuell. Das Programm arbeitet auch mit Bildern, die einen falschen Weißabgleich oder Farbstich haben und liefert meistens sehr gute Parameterwerte für den richtigen Weißabgleich. Das auf diese Weise erzeugte Farbprofil zeigt nicht die oben beschriebenen groben Mängel bei der Farbsättigung. Allerdings verbleibt auch unter günstigen Bedingungen für die 24 Farbfehler ein mittlerer Farbfehler Δc*ab von über 3.
Zum Vergleich: Eine Canon EOS 6D erreicht bei richtiger Belichtung und richtigem Weißabgleich und dem Bildstil „natürlich“ ohne weitere Korrekturen eine mittlere Farbsättigung zwischen 98 % und 101 % vom theoretischen Wert und einen Farbfehler Δc*ab von unter 3,0. Durch die automatische Farbkontrolle mit dem X-Rite ColorChecker Passport werden diese Ergebnisse jedes Mal verschlechtert.
Merkwürdigerweise überprüft das mit dem X-Rite ColorChecker Passport mitgelieferte Programm auch den Status der Monitorkalibrierung, obwohl das für die automatische Erstellung von Farbprofilen aus Bilddateien vollkommen unerheblich ist. Diese Eigenschaft des Programms ist vermutlich als Werbung für die anderen Produkte von X-Rite zur Farbkalibrierung aufzufassen.
Ich kann nun nicht, wie einige Kollegen hier in ihren Rezensionen, behaupten, dass "Welten" zwischen den korrigierten und unkorrigierten Bildern liegen, vielleicht weil meine Kamera schon von Haus aus einen guten Weißabgleich mitbringt (D800E), aber bei Shootings in Räumen, bei Kunstlicht, Kerzenlicht, z.B. in Kirchen oder in Sälen, ist der ColorChecker eine immense Hilfe weil man dort ja, auch wenn zu Hause ist, einfach nicht mehr die "richtigen" Farben bestimmen kann. Das hat, ohne den ColorChecker, zur Folge, dass man dann einfach keinen farblichen Maßstab mehr hat und dann z.B. die Farbe des Kleides von Tante Hilde oder das Jacket von Onkel Herbert hinterher auf den Fotos absolut nicht mehr mit der Realität übereinstimmt. Ganz schlimm wird es, wenn durch Kunstlicht oder andere Lichteinflüsse, die Hauttöne nicht mehr passen, sowas sieht der Betrachter dann sofort weil das menschliche Auge anscheinend gerade bei Hauttönen empfindlicher ist. Und wenn man dann bei einer Hochzeit das Brautpaar als Zombies mit bläulich schimmernder Haut o.ä. ablichtet, dann sind die Ergebnisse nicht unbedingt das, was man dann als Photo verschenkt (oder verkauft)...
In der Natur, z.B. bei Sonnenuntergängen, in der Dämmerung ist es auch schon eine Hilfe, wenn man eine farbliche Referenz hat.
Ich habe gemerkt, dass ich bei Arbeiten, die nicht absolut wichtig sind, nicht immer das ColorChecker Plugin benutzen muss, einen Weißabgleich auf die standardisierten Felder des ColorChecker, z.B. Weiß oder Grau genügen oft schon, um die Farben zufriedenstellend zu korrigieren.
(Leicht negativ muss ich anmerken, dass bei mir der ColorChecker Plugin manchmal nicht das Referenzbild erkennt, aber ich weiss nun nicht, ob das an mir oder am Plugin liegt, eventuell habe ich dann vielleicht auch einen zu großen Abstand bei der Aufnahme gewählt, so dass das Referenzbild zu klein erscheint.)
Absolut positiv ist die Machart des ColorCheckers, die Farbtabellen sind farbecht in einem sehr stabilen dünnen und ausreichend kleinen (so ca. Din A 6 (?)) Kunststoffetui, so dass man das den ColorChecker problemlos auch mal rauer anfassen, verstauen und transportieren kann. Ich nehme dadurch den Colorchecker auch in meiner normalen Jacke oft mit, er hilft nicht nur bei DSLR sondern bei allen Kameras als Hilfsmittel für die Farbkalibrierung.
Ich denke, dass dieses Utensil ein "Muss" für jeden halbwegs foto-interessierten Menschen ist. Es gibt dazu natürlich auch noch gute Alternativen, z.B. den Graukeil-Cube, aber ich persönlich finde dieses Etui sehr praktisch. In Anbetracht der Robustheit, der Farbechtheit und der Flexibilität und der damit zusammenhängenden (Robustheit und Farbechtheit) vermuteten langen Lebensdauer finde ich den Preis (über die Jahre gerechnet) zwar "stolz" aber eben nicht zu hoch, sondern eher angemessen (in Relation zum Nutzen für mich). Deswegen klare Kaufempfehlung.
On the day of your photo shoot you need to take an image of the chart in the scene with the same camera and lens (and filters) you are going to use for the shots. My example is attached. When you get back you import the photo into the included ColorChecker software and give it a name. The colorchecker software then finds the card in the image and creates a custom color preset (you give it a name) that you can apply in Lightroom from the Camera Calibration profiles menu. Once you have the preset you can quickly color correct all your photos from that scene in one pass.
For long exposure shots it was a bit of a palaver getting the color card in the scene; but once it was loaded as a correction it quickly removed the red shift from my long exposures; and so for me was perfect.
In the Colorchecker box you get color card; along with a greyscale card. The card itself isn't water protected so you need to keep it dry otherwise the color chips might run. You also get a CD to install the software from (though if like me your laptop doesn't have a drive you can download it from the x-rite website.
Having tried it with long and short exposures the speed of correcting colors in images is definitely worth the money; and if you are a professional photographer this will likely save you hours recovering colors on images. As an amateur its a considered purchase; but likely worth the investment. 4*
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2015
On the day of your photo shoot you need to take an image of the chart in the scene with the same camera and lens (and filters) you are going to use for the shots. My example is attached. When you get back you import the photo into the included ColorChecker software and give it a name. The colorchecker software then finds the card in the image and creates a custom color preset (you give it a name) that you can apply in Lightroom from the Camera Calibration profiles menu. Once you have the preset you can quickly color correct all your photos from that scene in one pass.
For long exposure shots it was a bit of a palaver getting the color card in the scene; but once it was loaded as a correction it quickly removed the red shift from my long exposures; and so for me was perfect.
In the Colorchecker box you get color card; along with a greyscale card. The card itself isn't water protected so you need to keep it dry otherwise the color chips might run. You also get a CD to install the software from (though if like me your laptop doesn't have a drive you can download it from the x-rite website.
Having tried it with long and short exposures the speed of correcting colors in images is definitely worth the money; and if you are a professional photographer this will likely save you hours recovering colors on images. As an amateur its a considered purchase; but likely worth the investment. 4*
Je m'en sers uniquement en vidéo, pour rattraper les quelques petites erreurs de balance des blancs qu'il peut y avoir entre celle enregistrée sur la caméra et la réelle...
Processus d'utilisation (Pour enregistrement Prores ou autre format compressé) :
- On check la balance des blancs au sekonic ou au posemètre doté de la fonction white balance. A ce propos l'application iphone nommée "posemètre" donne un résultat plutôt pas mauvais si assez de lumière et correctement exécuté ...
- On règle alors dans la caméra la balance des blancs mesurée à l'étape précédente.
- On pointe alors le colorchecker devant la caméra, puis sans couper la caméra on enregistre son plan.
- En post prod, grace au logiciel GRATUIT Davinci Resolve lite, on corrige ses couleurs automatiquement en 1 clic ou 2 avec l'outil adapté...
(Le logiciel fait la différence entre les couleurs enregistrées par la caméra sur le lieu de tournage, et la charte couleur X-rite préenregistrée dans le logiciel... L'ajustement se fait alors automatiquement par comparaison entre les deux... Efficace !!!!!)
Le résultat est juste exceptionnel... Surtout pour les formats compressés comme le Prores ou le H264 basique genre celui des Canon 5DIII et autres DSLR.
Avec cette façon de procéder, on peut récupérer des couleurs fidèles sans trop de problèmes, meme avec un codec en 8 bits sur la luminance. (DSLR...)
Idem pour la photo. Récupérez des teintes de peaux idéales... des couleurs justes et calibrées... Mais je m'en sers moins en photo et je ne connais pas bien le processus sur photoshop ou lightroom.
En définitive, je conseille ce colorchecker à 100% aux photographes et autres vidéastes désireux de conserver des couleurs justes tout le long de leur process. Depuis que je l'ai, je me demande comment je pouvais bien faire avant... au jugé... A l'oeil... C'était faisable quand on a un oeil exercé... mais avec le colorchecker ca devient rapide et sans tergiverser...
Service amazon toujours sans reproche depuis plusieurs années... Félicitations.
Da ich kein Berufsfotograf bin, setze ich den Colorchecker nur gelegentlich ein - und meine Erfahrungen damit sind gemischt. Ich habe das Chart bei verschiedenen Lichtverhältnissen fotografiert und die daraus erstellten Profile passend benannt. Dann werden sie mir - je nach Kamera - in Lightroom zur Verfügung gestellt (freilich nur für die RAWs), so dass ich sie auf Bilder mit ähnlichen oder gleichen Lichtverhältnissen anwenden kann. - Manchmal bringt's was.
Man ist nicht darauf angewiesen, das mitgelieferte X-Rite-Tool zu benutzen - man kann auch den "DNG Profile Editor" von Adobe verwenden, der wesentlich mehr zu bieten hat, und den man sich kostenlos von Adobe herunterladen kann. Allerdings gibt's Unterschiede im Ergebnis, wohlgemerkt von ein und demselben Target-Foto. Je nach Bild wirkt sich das dann mehr oder weniger deutlich aus. Nach meiner Erfahrung ist die Adobe-Lösung bis jetzt immer wieder die bessere gewesen. - Vielleicht auch wegen der besseren Kompatibilität (?)
Die Angebote auf der X-Rite-Homepage hinken sehr hinter den aktuellen Entwicklungen her.
Trotzdem, wer ein PlugIn für sein Nicht-Adobe-Programm vermisst, sollte nicht allzu enttäuscht sein - das mitgelieferte Programm ist ohnehin meist die sicherere Lösung. Denn das PlugIn (das ja vollautomatisch abläuft) verlangt nach absolut korrekt ausgerichteter, optimal belichteter und knackscharfer Darstellung des Colorcharts - sonst kriegt man bloß eine Fehlermeldung. Das Programm bietet immerhin die Möglichkeit, mit Hilfe der Eckpunkte das Target so auszurichten, dass sich damit ein Profil entwickeln lässt. Das ist kinderleicht zu händeln und funktioniert prima.
In einigen Rezensionen habe ich gelesen, dass kein Handbuch bzw. Anleitung gefunden wurde. - Dazu kann ich sagen: ganz einfach, das Handbuch-PDF (in mehreren Sprachen) verbirgt sich nach der Programm-Installation in den System-Libraries. Man muss sich aber nichtmal bis dahin durchwurschteln. Wenn man nämlich das Tool geöffnet hat, geht man einfach in das Hilfe-Menü und findet dort das Handbuch unter dem Namen "Dokumentation".
Auf den ersten Blick macht es einen sehr ausführlichen Eindruck - 58 Seiten mit viel Text und Darstellungen.
Aber beim Lesen wurde ich doch enttäuscht, denn - abgesehen von dem leicht chaotischen Aufbau - wird Wesentliches nur relativ knapp abgehandelt. Das meiste beschäftigt sich total weitschweifig mit Nebensächlichkeiten oder behandelt allgemeingültige Bildbearbeitungstechniken, die man an anderer Stelle besser lernt. So bleiben am Ende etliche spezielle Fragen offen - z.B. zu dem sog. "Optimierungs-Target". Die allgemein gehaltenen Statements dazu helfen nicht groß weiter. Bis jetzt habe ich keinen wirklich praxistauglichen Nutzen dafür herausgefunden. Mein Fazit daher: eine Spielerei - es kann nichts, was Lightroom, Photoshop oder andere entsprechende Programme nicht mindestens so gut könnten. - Nicht mal eine Zeitersparnis ist bisher dabei herausgekommen.
Ich vermute, dass es vor allem dazu dient, einen dritten Flügel am Gehäuse zu rechtfertigen. Zugegeben, die Dreiteiligkeit macht das Gehäuse besonders nützlich - es gibt kaum eine Aufstellposition, die man damit nicht lösen könnte. - Naja - wie sähe es aber aus wenn der dritte Flügel ganz und gar "blanco" wäre - nix als schwarzes Plastik? - Da musste man sich halt was einfallen lassen.
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