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    WhiBal G7 White Balance Pocket Card
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    Michael Tapes Design

    WhiBal G7 White Balance Pocket Card

    4.3
    €59,00
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    €96,00
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    Description

    • Best specs of any gray card product (a*&b* < 0.5 from perfect neutral)
    • Only WhiBal is precision measured to certify specs of each and every card shipped.
    • Designed for perfect compatibility with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
    • Sturdy and virtually indestructible only .040" thick. Scratch, fade, and water resistant..
    • Complete WhiBal Pocket Card and 6mil polybag case
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    Customer Reviews

    Very useful for WB correction in post processing Before I got the card, in order to correct some photos' white balance in Lightroom, I had to tinker around so much... and even then, it may still be difficult to calibrate it correctly.This is where this card comes in handy. If you are shooting a session in an environment with strange colored lighting, which includes fluorescent lighting that comes in all sorts of color temperature, you can take a picture with this card in the center every so often. Afterward, you simply need to set the white balance on one photo in Lightroom, then sync up all the rest of the photo to the same WB setting.The color in the photos now look plenty accurate and definitely much more accurate than me trying to figure it out manually.My recommendation is, get it. It will save you so much time in post processing. 5Essential I am new to the WhiBal. Wish I'd known about it when I first purchased my camera. Different sizes for different needs. I put this pocket version on a lanyard so I'm never without it. I'm a Photoshop CS5 user, coming off of Photoshop 7, off of Photoshop 5.Outside of lenses, and Speedlites, this is the SINGLE most essential tool I've ever bought. Some quibble about the price, but considering the individually measured and certified quality of every card, it's a steal. I can't imagine any photographer who's serious about color balance EVER being without it.Google WhiBal and watch Michael Tapes' video tutorials. They go into great practical and technical depth, simply and efficiently, and make the case far better than I can for why you need a WhiBal. (No, I'm not affiliated with WhiBal in any way.)As usual, with Amazon, great pricing and speedy shipping. With this particular version of the WhiBal card, no case, no lanyard, no stand included. No problem. Fits neatly, with lanyard, into the flap-sleeve of my daily Kata H-16 grab-and-go bag (also bought through Amazon).No more doubts about my camera's color calibration, monitor color calibration, variations. Unbelievably useful for batch processing.Go get it! 5A must-have It's a wonderfully easy product to use to get white balance spot-on. I keep on in every camera bag. One feature this review asked me to comment on was "Easy to fold?" : no, but it's not supposed to fold. One note, the technical information on the card is all for the 6th generation card, and this is the 7th generation card which is different. When I wrote to the manufacturer they basically said "yes, the information is old and no longer accurate, but it's still a god card". 5Amateur I will admit, I am an amateur and take pictures only as a hobby. My picture appear 100 times better after I calibrate my camera white balance using the WhiBal G7. Takes little to no effort to do your balance on the camera or wait then balance in your software. The card is durable and seems easy to clean. Now you may ask, is a little plastic card really worth what this cost? My answer is "no" not the plastic but what it does for your photo's is worth it. I see it like this, I have sent several hundred dollars on my cameras what's 20-30 dollars to make sure they are balance right. It will make a different. 5More valuable than the credit card it replaced. Saved me a monitor. Simply put, I keep this in my wallet. It's a fantastic tool to have on you when taking pictures. Most will probably keep it in their kit but for those of us who just like to pick up our camera and hit the road this is perfectly compact.Usage:Set your camera to manual focus and spot metering. Hold it in one hand a few inches away from your lenses so it fills the shot. Snap a shot and then go into your DSLR menu and find the Custom White Balance option. Select the image you just took (probably some blurry grey shot) and you're all done. Now just set the white balance to "custom" back on your main screen.It really saves a lot of time in post processing. It's not that useful in terms of sunlight shots (the daylight preset WB setting is usually pretty good) but for anything indoors it will help you get that spot on WB.The other helpful part is if you don't use a monitor that is perfectly calibrated for color reproduction. I have some IPS panels that are pretty good but they're not great. This helps alleviate having to sit there and slide a bar back and forth...which I don't miss. Mostly because I will eventually get tired of looking at the same image and all the minor changes will start to blur together. At least using this balance card I can stop worrying about tiring out my eyes on white balance and focus on the other details of the image in post. 5This is like insider trading for light balance! This product should be illegal. I thought I took decent pictures until I started reading about white balance. This item came up in my query, and I thought it was one of those "buy one get one free at $19.99 2 A.M." deals. However, I took a gamble and realized that it made my older photos look like I took them with a beer filter.How this item works is that it has a neutral gray, a spectrometrically (may not be a word but they used Science and Stuff) measured white, and black. What you do is have your model or subject hold this card with the three values facing the camera, take the pic, then take the pic normally in proper lighting and exposure. In post-pro, you open the reference image with the subject holding the card via photoshop and add a levels adjustment layer. You'll see the three eyedroppers (gray, black, and white). Use each eyedropper on its respective value on the card, and you will see your photo drastically transform in seconds. Now, move the image window outside of the frame and drag the adjustment layer on the photo you shot with the subject without holding the card, and BAM! The levels from the reference photo are transferred to the final picture, taking all guess work out of the process. BUY THIS NOW! It's cheap, portsble, and effective. I'm just starting to get serious about photography, and I feel this will turn into a a better photographer. You'll like the way your photos look, guaranteed! 5The Gold Standard I've been using Michael Tapes' WhiBal cards for a dozen years. They have allowed me to consistently achieve accurate white balance in my images. While digital camera auto white balance has improved markedly in the last dozen years, there are still too many situations where it fails and leaves a color cast in your images.To achieve accurate color representation in your digital images, you must shoot RAW and you must have test images with a known neutral target in them, in the same light as your subject. Only then can you accurately adjust white balance in post processing to remove unwanted color casts.The pocket size WhiBal is ideal for use in the field. It's small enough that you actually carry it with you all the time (I keep mine on a lanyard around my neck when I'm in the field shooting). If it's convenient to carry, it gets used.There are larger cards; I have them and use them in the studio. But the pocket version is what travels with me 100% of the time when I'm out in the field. 5Inconsistency and accuracy issues make this card worthless I tried this item out trying to get my white balance somewhat more accurate. Clicking on this gives a white balance. Clicking on an area near the first sample gives an inconsistent reading. It's so far off on one spot on the card to the next that it makes me the question is it even accurate. So my complaint about this is the card it is not accurate and consistent from one area on the card to the next. It's so far off that it's useless to me. 1Everyone needs one This is a useful little credit card sized gadget. Take a photo of it for each lighting setup or when the lighting changes. Later on in post processing you can use it to set the white balance of each scene. You may not always want a technically correct white balance each time but this gives you a starting point from which you can adjust to suit your taste. Just make sure that the lighting is even on it and there's no visible glare.The price may seem high for a piece of plastic but it's manufactured to tight tolerances and it'll pay for itself in time saved and consistency of results. From that perspective it's money well spent. 5Very Handy White Balance Card This is one of those things that is a must have if you are a photographer. Not having to worry about white balance ever again is such a time saver and is very easy to do with this card.It's amazing how looking at a picture in lightroom looks 'normal' before you apply the correct WB and then looks totally different (correct) after syncing the WB settings with this card. I've used this card over the past couple months and have no complaints. It has saved me from a lot of monkeying around with settings after the shot with just a few clicks.Tip: After taking a series of shots in the same lighting, I take on picture of this card and then take a picture with the lens cap on (totally black shot). This way, in lightroom it is easy for me to tell where the white balance settings for a group of shots are. You can delete that picture after you've synced all the WB settings for your import. 5
    WhiBal G7 White Balance Pocket Card

    WhiBal G7 White Balance Pocket Card

    4.3
    You can't add more than 500 quantity.
    €59,00
    €59,00
    €96,00
    Sold out
    Save 39% (€37,00)