🎨 Datacolor SC200 SpyderCube Review

But I was annoyed that the package really came, ie heavily crumpled and looked like it had been opened. There was a cut in the box that looked like it had been made with a box cutter/blade and the Revain envelope was also torn! I was not happy with this and upon further inspection found that the unit was indeed DAMAGED. The black paint has peeled off. I would recommend looking into other options. Although the price of a plastic white balance cube is high, there is no guarantee that the product…

1) It attaches to a lamp stand. For portraits, I don't have to ask the person to hold anything. Looks professional. 2) It doesn't glare - shiny gray cards are almost useless to me when using flash. 3) Tricolor: I usually set up the color in Lightroom using Spyder and Gray. From time to time I have to use white instead of grey. 4) Shadow hole The black part has a hole that allows you to set the darkest point in the picture. Very useful when trying to get "true" black in a histogram. Useful for…

This is a fun gadget that works well enough for mixed lighting post-production documentary films. Using the eyedropper to automatically balance the image in Lightroom didn't work as well as I'd hoped and I still had to make significant adjustments afterwards. I would give it three stars because it's such a cool idea, although it didn't work for me. I enjoyed using it more than my gray card, although I'm frustrated that it doesn't replace my gray card when I want to manually adjust the camera's…