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Color Checkers for Digital Cinematography. How important is it ?


Ram Nanda

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can someone experienced let me know answers to these questions. I have never used a color checker before. 

1) How important is color checkers for Digital cameras recording in RAW or similar top quality formats ? 

2) Is it a viable option for day to day use in movie production ?

3) Can we differentiate different skin tones using checker ?

4) If shooting outdoor, is it a good choice to use as day light intensity & temperature keeps varying through out the day ?

5) what are industry standard best practices for using color checkers ?

6) what is the best company color checker available in market ?

 

 

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Color charts are more for testing of cameras, LED lighting (to look for metamerism problems) and for LUT creation in prep, they don't have much day to day use on a film set. On the test day, you would still want an actual person as well to check skin tones.  But a color chart could tell you if one camera has a noisier red or blue square than another, or of some colors were less saturated than others, etc.

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2 hours ago, David Mullen ASC said:

Color charts are more for testing of cameras, LED lighting (to look for metamerism problems) and for LUT creation in prep, they don't have much day to day use on a film set. On the test day, you would still want an actual person as well to check skin tones.  But a color chart could tell you if one camera has a noisier red or blue square than another, or of some colors were less saturated than others, etc.

Thanks Mr. David

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