Product Description
Controlling the light in front of your camera is the first step in your
color workflow.
As long as you are working with a single light source, you cancount on the white
balance function of your camera or computer to get the color you want. However,
add a second light, a light modifier, or work on location with today's mix of
tungsten, halide, vapor and fluorescent lights, and you will either have to fix
it up front or fix it later, if you can. How do you arrive at a common, single
color tone that is easy for your camera or software to correct? How do you
introduce additional flash illumination in the foreground without making it look
like, well, additional flash illumination? And knowing that the color
accommodation of your eyes and brain make unaided color adjustment nearly
impossible to judge by yourself, how do you
know how much color filtration is enough and when you've over corrected? If
color is important, a Sekonic C-500 Series color meter should be in your arsenal
of photographic tools.
Identical to the C-500, the "R" model adds wireless triggering for your flash
and camera. Sekonic provided the answer to exposure control with the L-758DR,
the worlds first meter that can be tuned to a film or digital camera. With the
PRODIGI COLOR C-500 and C-500R, Sekonic gives photographers the worlds only
photographic color meter designed to read spectral sensitivity of both color
film and CCD and CMOS sensors used in todays digital still and DV cine cameras.
Serious photographers and cinematographers know that good lighting and proper
exposure are more important now than ever. With the higher demands of todays
digital medium, "garbage in" can mean hours of postproduction. They know that
color is a critical factor when multiple light sources are involved. Changing
reflectors, adding diffusion or adjusting power levels will result in a color
temperature change that needs to be corrected. They know that taking the time to
do it right is always a good investment because "perfect in" always looks better
than an image that has been adjusted.
The PRODIGI COLOR C-500R is the first color meter to incorporate a flash
triggering radio transmitter module. Simply press the measuring button to
wirelessly trigger flash units up to 100 feet away. The built-in transmitter is
compatible with PocketWizard's radio triggering systems, as well as the
PocketWizard Wireless Freedom partners (Profoto, Dyna-lite, Photogenic, Norman
and Lumedyne with built-in PocketWizard radio technology). The Wireless Radio
Triggering Mode offers 32 digital coded channels and four Quad-Triggering Zones.
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