It connects via Bluetooth to a companion app for precise color measurement, exposure monitoring, and adjusting light conditions. This portable device is especially useful for filmmakers and photographers working under difficult lighting environments. No, this is not about calibrating monitors again (see here). This time it's about one of the hardest tasks in post: matching cameras. Sure, we all know that different manufacturer's cameras interpret colors quite differently and all we can do about it is color grading. Even two samples of the same camera can look slightly off. But given that you set everything correctly in the menus and there are still very obvious shifts, there is another culprit to suspect: the light! Metering color of light Datacolor is known for their devices to calibrate monitors for years and we are soon going to test a recent one. But now they added a meter for light sources by acquiring Illuminati Instrument Corporation: renaming the Illuminati IM150 to Datacolor L...
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