Colour | academy
Made to measure This collection includes some of the best tools money can buy to ensure you get accurate colours at the time of shooting
Know your light Mixed illumination is one of the biggest causes of colour headaches. Daylight, practicals, LEDs and fluorescents can all be illuminating the same scene, while two fixtures displaying exactly 5600K don’t necessarily produce identical light. That’s where a colour meter becomes incredibly useful. Learning to use one isn’t just about achieving technically correct white-balance. It tells you what is really happening with your lighting, giving you the confidence to match light sources or
deliberately make them different to create a particular mood. Meters that combine sophisticated colour measurement with conventional exposure functions aren’t especially established professional choice. Used by cinematographers around the world, it is an extremely comprehensive instrument, although at £1416⁄$1900, it comes with a suitably professional price. It’s a true spectrometer, analysing wavelengths common. For years, the Sekonic C-800 Spectromaster has been the
between 380 and 780nm and providing CCT, CRI, TLCI, SSI and TM-30 measurements alongside spectral graphs, chromaticity, hue and saturation. Its 4.3-inch colour touchscreen puts all that information on the meter itself, it can store up to 99 measurements in total and it offers functions for comparing different sources and calculating filtration. If you need to know not simply that two LEDs look different, but precisely why, that’s where this depth of spectral information becomes valuable.
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