{"id":42415,"date":"2024-04-26T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2024.spyder.datacolor.eu\/spyder\/?p=42415"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:43:37","slug":"why-owning-a-light-color-meter-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/blog\/why-owning-a-light-color-meter-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Owning a Light & Color Meter Makes Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Maybe you\u2019re considering incorporating a light & color meter into your photography or videography workflow, but you\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s necessary given that digital cameras have their own built-in meters.<\/p>\n

Your camera\u2019s built-in meter can only provide the average light measurement of a scene, which can result in images\/footage that can be over or under exposed, especially when shooting under challenging lighting conditions such as high-contrast scenes, multiple or varying light sources such as studio or outdoor lighting.<\/p>\n

By using a light & color meter, you\u2019re able to get lighting ratios, color temperature and DUV measurements so you have a very accurate assessment of the lighting in your scene. This allows you to make adjustments to your lights and camera from the start to achieve the look you want, for ultimate creative control. Additionally, it will help you streamline your post-production work and ensure color consistency. [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”42426″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]The Datacolor LightColor Meter<\/a> measures both incident and ambient light and converts these measurements to give you the best shutter speed and f\/stop to use, but it also gives you color temperature and DUV \u2013 an important metric that characterizes the \u201cshift\u201d of a light source in the direction across the green-magenta axis in the color space.<\/p>\n

In his video 5 Reasons to Own a Color Meter, professional photographer, Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens elaborates on the practical and creative benefits of using a light and color meter \u2013 specifically the IM150 (acquired by Datacolor and relaunched as Datacolor LightColor Meter) \u2013 into your workflow.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space]

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<\/path><\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]Learn more about the Datacolor LightColor Meter<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Maybe you\u2019re considering incorporating a light & color meter into your photography or videography workflow, but you\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s necessary given that digital cameras have their own built-in meters. Your camera\u2019s built-in meter can only provide the average light measurement of a scene, which can result in images\/footage that can be over or …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datacolor.com\/spyder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}