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Nov 23 2010 10:17am
Today's digital photography endeavors are usually made satisfactory with a calibrated monitor and eye color correction.

http://www.amazon.com/X-Rite-MSCCPP-ColorChecker-Passport/dp/B002NU5UW8

Enter the color checker passport - the newest suggestion that was given to me while on an event by the city's best photographer.

Is the time saved on batching manual WB correction for 1200 photos per set worth 99$?

What are your thoughts on this thing?
If it's as useful as people say, FUCK ME, where have I been all this time? I've been wasting HOURS wb editing each event T_T
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Nov 23 2010 10:23am
I've not personally used it, but you seriously should, I've only heard good things about this and similar software.

How many hours work is 1200 photos?
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Nov 23 2010 10:48am
I have one and to be honest, i haven't used it as much as i should. But for someone like you who shoots hundreds of pictures per event under different/ difficult lighting conditions.. It's a godsend when you do post processing.

There are different patches on the passport where you can warm/cool portrait/landscape shots. Great tool IMO.

Close up pics of them.

Size comparison


18% Greycard




Now the show.
Correctly profiled.


Non-correct from camera. See the color difference?


This post was edited by Eek on Nov 23 2010 11:10am
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Nov 23 2010 11:05am
I used X-rite color densitometer at my workplace, to determine the strength of different printed colours RGB parts.
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Nov 23 2010 01:02pm
Quote (Eek @ Nov 23 2010 09:48am)
I have one and to be honest, i haven't used it as much as i should. But for someone like you who shoots hundreds of pictures per event under different/ difficult lighting conditions.. It's a godsend when you do post processing.

There are different patches on the passport where you can warm/cool portrait/landscape shots. Great tool IMO.

Close up pics of them.

Size comparison
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m223/Jdmhoodz/_MG_0010-1.jpg

18% Greycard
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m223/Jdmhoodz/_MG_0007-1.jpg



Now the show.
Correctly profiled.
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m223/Jdmhoodz/_MG_0005-1.jpg

Non-correct from camera. See the color difference?
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m223/Jdmhoodz/_MG_0005.jpg


That's extremely evident in the purples.
Quote (Veilside @ Nov 23 2010 09:23am)
I've not personally used it, but you seriously should, I've only heard good things about this and similar software.

How many hours work is 1200 photos?


~15-20 hours, depending on how good I was with my in-camera calibration and the PP I decide to use (which other than color, sharpness, contrast, or presets, is nothing)
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Nov 23 2010 01:21pm
Quote (onepagememory @ Nov 23 2010 03:02pm)
That's extremely evident in the purples.


Yep, also the blues and orange under that specific lighting that i was in (daylight with florescent).

I wish there was a way to show you but the profiled version matches exactly what i see in real life with the colorchecker in front of me. Part of that was because my monitor is calibrated as well with a X-Rite ColorMunki Photo.

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Nov 23 2010 02:27pm
Can someone explain how you would use this to me? Whats the difference of having the colors there rather than just adjusting white balance to a 18% grey card?
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Nov 23 2010 03:48pm
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Can someone explain how you would use this to me? Whats the difference of having the colors there rather than just adjusting white balance to a 18% grey card?


It's alot more accurate. The wb may be correct with a gray card, but the camera's profile differs and you don't get an accurate representation of colors.

Very useful for product shoots etc.
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Dec 8 2010 08:38pm
I posted this on another forums so i figured i'd post it here too since the work has already been done.

Okay, here are a few more images, i've added some real life objects so it's easier to gauge the difference it makes.

I made a .gif abit low quality to show where to look for the difference. The according jpegs are below.

The .GIF with 1second change intervals.


Unedited SooC from 5D Mark II and Sigma 50/1.4


Correctly Profiled.
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Dec 8 2010 09:09pm
Can someone tell me why this is $99 on Amazon?
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