The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50

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nayuki•42 minutes ago

I didn't learn much from reading this article. Questions linger in my mind, for example: What are the CIE XYZ coordinates of each colored square? What is the spectral distribution of each square? How were the colors chosen?

eviks•32 minutes ago

These aren't appropriate questions for the birthday party

jey•24 minutes ago

You sound like you actually want to just generate them yourself using ArgyllCMS `targen` and `printtarg`.

rustcleaner•11 minutes ago

I don't know about him but yes yes I do and you should want to, too! :^)

jey•9 minutes ago

Ok great, now I'm in the market for a $20k Barbieri LFP auto-spectrophotometer. Thanks.

isomorphic•about 1 hour ago

These are great, even for manually-adjusted color workflows.

Fun fact, though: You have to replace them every couple of years (or sooner) because no pigment/dye is stable, especially if exposed to bright light.

Having a test shot with one of these in it saves you untold amounts of pain later.

Wistar•about 1 hour ago

Many of them, especially the smaller hard-case versions, have a space to write date of first-use.

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50

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