Why Owning a Light & Color Meter Makes Sense

Maybe you’re considering incorporating a light & color meter into your photography or videography workflow, but you’re not sure if it’s necessary given that digital cameras have their own built-in meters.

Your camera’s built-in meter can only provide the average light measurement of a scene, which can result in images/footage that can be over or under exposed, especially when shooting under challenging lighting conditions such as high-contrast scenes, multiple or varying light sources such as studio or outdoor lighting.

By using a light & color meter, you’re able to get lighting ratios, color temperature and DUV measurements so you have a very accurate assessment of the lighting in your scene. This allows you to make adjustments to your lights and camera from the start to achieve the look you want, for ultimate creative control. Additionally, it will help you streamline your post-production work and ensure color consistency.

The Datacolor IM150 Light & Color Meter (available in the US, only) measures both incident and ambient light and converts these measurements to give you the best shutter speed and f/stop to use, but it also gives you color temperature and DUV – an important metric that characterizes the “shift” of a light source in the direction across the green-magenta axis in the color space.

In his video 5 Reasons to Own a Color Meter, professional photographer, Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens elaborates on the practical and creative benefits of using a light and color meter – specifically the IM150 – into your workflow.

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