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The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50 (dpreview.com)
nayuki 57 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?
willtemperley 11 minutes ago [-]
The Wikipedia article is far more informative, though I'm uncertain if read the full dpreview article due to ad-induced nausea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorChecker

eviks 47 minutes ago [-]
These aren't appropriate questions for the birthday party
jey 39 minutes ago [-]
You sound like you actually want to just generate them yourself using ArgyllCMS `targen` and `printtarg`.
rustcleaner 26 minutes ago [-]
I don't know about him but yes yes I do and you should want to, too! :^)
jey 24 minutes ago [-]
Ok great, now I'm in the market for a $20k Barbieri LFP auto-spectrophotometer. Thanks.
isomorphic 2 hours 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 1 hours ago [-]
Many of them, especially the smaller hard-case versions, have a space to write date of first-use.
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