Category: Photography
ColorMeter: Affordable Calibration
ColorMeter ColorMeter is simply an app that allows you to plug a probe (including inexpensive X-rite varieties) into your phone and measure many attributes of your lighting. Not only do you get color temperature and exposure information, but you get spectral readouts and color accuracy including CRI and TLCI readings. All this for a $100 app…
YongNuo YN360 – The Safe And Affordable Light Saber
This will be my shortest review yet. This thing is awesome. CRI is what you’d expect from an $80 light (terrible). The versatility of the light means you try things you wouldn’t otherwise and it make a great rim. I’m even able to overlook the poor color rendering because all other aspects are just so…
Fotodiox Flapjack–Soft Light That’s Hard to Beat
The Gist Fotodiox’s FlapJack does one thing and does it well: smooth, soft, buttery light. I love its novel design and thin profile. Photometrics look good and output is sufficient for this style of light. While it doesn’t have a long throw (again, built for one purpose) and it’s a bit heavier than I’d hoped,…
Envira Tests
Here are the remaining issues with Envira: No video in dynamic galleries! So painful Mobile version of galleries has no easy full-screen mode? In Chrome? In Safari? Resolved: • Adding metadata captions from Lightroom doesn’t come through the plugin and into Envira. Now Lightroom caption metadata comes through in the ‘description’ field of the normal…
Aputure Deity Microphone
Modern-day videographers are rapidly becoming spoiled for choice when it comes to microphones. You no longer have to spend much money at all to get a great result. Aputure is a recent player in the audio arena but is aiming to be competitive. I received their recently-released “Deity” and have put it through a bit of…
