Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]indeed if you speak about the new Kodak gray card R27 which I didn't know was on the market and which never have seen in Europe an is 15% reflective the one we can buy in Europe is the old one 18 % here you see the difference Op 3/02/17 om 19:53 schreef Christopher Crawford: > The Kodak card is supposed to be neutral and usable for white balance. The > info sheet that comes with it states that, and shows a spectral response > graph showing that as well. I?ve done numerous tests with it and it gives > consistent results in all types of light, though the results are (as I > state in my tutorial) very slightly warmer than the results obtained with > the other cards. > > I think the Xrite Colorchecker Passport?s white balance squares are the > very best. The differences between the Colorchecker Passport, Whibal, and > Kodak Cards are subtle though. Each of the cards I tried gives slightly > different results. > > On the Colorchecker Passport, Xrite says that you should not use ANY of > the white or gray squares on the passport?s page that had the old Macbeth > Colorchecker chart, as these are not truly neutral. Instead, they say to > use one of the two white balance pages. One is a large light gray page. > The other is on the page opposite the traditional Colorchecker. That page > has two lines of white balance squares. One is labeled Portrait, the other > Landscape. Each line includes a true neutral square and the several > slightly non-neutral squares that allow you to choose a slightly warmer > white balance (on the portrait line) or a slightly warmer or cooler white > balance (on the landscape line). >