ChromaLens : The Digital Video/Photographers white-balance & color-correction tool. Inexpensive, flexible, durable, lightweight and universal "filter-card" that simulates a "Grey-Card" reading for both digital still & video cameras. Simply set your white-balance with a ChromaLens covering your lens.
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Professional Janet Hickey : www.SharedVisions.US I use it and it's very very helpful! Color calibration of your camera can be tricky. Don't let the camera do it on it's own, you're the photographer. Control your results! Janet |
Professional ZaqHydN : www.Myspace.com/ZaqHydN "For more than 3 years I have been using ChromaLens to do the quick color-balance adjustments during shoots and events and have had phenomenal results. No other tool has streamlined my workflow in such a dramatic way... " |
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ChromaLens is a White Balance and Color Balance calibration filter for Digital cameras and Video as well, however, it will not calibrate Audio equipment (haha). ChromaLens is about 3.5 inches square, and is used like a lens filter to set your digital cameras color, or white balance in manual modes. ChromaLens Pro-Kit is predrilled and hangs from a neck lanyard or strap. I consider ChromaLens to be an essential CBT (camera bag tool) for every digital photographer and DV producers Must-Have. ChromaLens comes with a Warranty that will replace your damaged ChromaLens once per year for every year of warranty. The ChromaLens Pro-Kit is warranted for five years, the Basic Kit for one year. You will use it to set a digital camera’s manual color balance or white balance point, still or video, anything with a manual white balance setting. With a small amount of practice, it will take you about 3 seconds to set your camera to manual, set the cameras WB through the ChromaLens holding to your lens as if attached, and get back to shooting. Forget about stress later or at the print shop and fall in love with photography, all over again, because when you offload your images to a computer, you are going to give a sigh of relief to the amount of time you spend color correcting every image from your camera. Then have a glass of wine enjoying the fireplace with your beautiful art on the walls. That’s how you should use it. You can view or download the instruction & warranty guide here: [INSTRUCTIONS] Every Digital Photographer needs to get at least one, Professionals will need two or more. The PhotoClub Six-Pack is only $63.95 and includes 6 (six) ChromaLens Kits! This discounted package must be ordered from the PhotoClub Page. You will LOVE the result that comes from using it all the time and likely have one in the camera bag, and one at the studio or home. Production companies should also order a dozen, and wedge a set of ChromaLens’s into every camera case, and hang one from the neck of every photographer and videographer on your staff, they will thank you on a regular basis. The closest comparison to this tool costs $100 retail, is made of glass which is better, however can break, and is the same size as the lens, making it smaller and harder to use than the ChromaLens. Chromalens Pro Kit costs only $15.95, is very flexible, and larger then most lens’s, making it much more usable and practical for every situation from scenic shooting to full-on production use. $15.95. You pay it once every FIVE YEARS, not a hundred dollars every time you need to replace a broken lens filter. I am not a warehouse filled to the rim with refugees pressing out ChromaLens’s twenty four hours a day, I make them in a workshop piece by piece. So, until I’m manufacturing them in the USA, you can only order twelve a month. I hope that’s plenty for now. The PhotoClub Six-Pack is only $63.95 and includes 6 (six) ChromaLens Kits, however this must be ordered from the PhotoClub Page. If you should somehow accidentally damage your ChromaLens under acceptable use, you may have your ChromaLens replaced once a year for every year warranted, so you can be sure not to worry about spending another $15.95 on a ChromaLens for at least five years, You will be coming back for more before then anyway, I’m sure you will cross paths with someone that you might know needs one at least once every five years. [WARRANTY] I do not have a transmission spectra chart as of yet, although it would be a great idea to get one, I feel the physical results, time, and effort saved outweigh the need for charts. If you an need exact color correction solution, good luck, the search might take some time, and the science behind it might not save you time or effort, however, If you would enjoy saving a lot of time, and be pleased with great results from little effort, than perhaps ChromaLens will bring that smile to your photographic soul. In the meantime, I'll look into getting a transmission spectra chart for ChromaLens. You don’t. You could just keep spending those seconds of your life fixing a problem you could have solved before it started, or you could just keep calibrating your monitor and printer unnecessarily because of color balance on your output, you could also just have a fit when the colors you get from the retail printer hands you a set of color beaten prints. . . . or . . . You could just set your color, or white balance with a ChromaLens and forget all that pointless negative energy. Do you really need one? Not if you’re a Snapshot photographer, and not for Film cameras. I see four levels of Photography. The Snapshot (aka 4x6) photographer usually has not yet experienced the joy of adjusting the color correction on an entire set of images from a shoot-day with wildlife, perfectly happy with online fun shots. The Hobby (aka 8x10) photographer has crossed into this realm by now and is learning to play with Adobe or Corel and has left the toyphotoeditor on their computer just for a security blanket, spending their time on the input side of photography. The Amateur (aka 10x20) photographer is already feeling the effects on their neck from spending hours editing their first wedding shoot and generally puts most of their time on the processing side of photography. The Professional (aka 20x30) photographer is spending most of their time on output, rather than on input, and only processing by request, spending money when they could be making it. White balance is something you set for every lighting change, i.e., from indoors to outdoors, or from incandescent to fluorescent or halogen, and when you change your scene, like from shooting near a lake to shooting downtown buildings, ect. That's how most people end up with shots that look blue or green, or the skin tones look funny. The Auto-Correct function on most cameras generally meter from the focal point only, that is, from the crosshair in your viewfinder. This causes the rest of the image to be left to the mercy of that focal point's Light Data. If you’re a pro, you already know that, otherwise, most people have no clue how that works exactly. The Hobby, amateur, and Professional photographers are learning, or have already experienced the, “there must be an easier way” feeling about color correction. Breaking into Manual settings usually happens at the tail end of your Hobby classification and through the beginning of you becoming an Amateur. A graduation into the realm of the Art and Science of Photography. Now you need ChromaLens. If you are a Snapshot photographers typically keep their camera on Auto and have no clue how or what Custom WB is or does, so buy one anyway, if you don’t use it, you can give it to a friend that will, and they will thank you for it. ChromaLens is that easier way. Sure, it’s not the only kid on the block, however the other kid is much more costly to replace, and too valuable to just dangle from your neck on a shoot. Go ahead and spend $100 on the other one, and spend $15.95 on ChromaLens, test them both, and return the one you feel you paid too much for. [FAQ TOP] . [ORDER] . [CONTACT US] |
Let ChromaLens save you Thousands of Color-Correcting hours |
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I have Thousands of samples. Before I created the first ChromaLens, I would spend about fifteen minutes of every shooting-day fussing with a Grey-Card and setting my White Balance, sometimes three or more times before a shot. I would get to the office, and load the images to my system and battle with correcting my screen color before processing and editing images, taking another few minutes of that day away. I would have to pay attention to all of my images individually from, lets say, a family portrait session done on the beach. Watching for color changes as I was setting my WB during the session to adjust my processing procedures accordingly. More minutes wasted on correcting something that should be so simple. |
After having it bother me long enough, I began to actually clock and log my times of each procedure, of each step. I calculated an average of 80 Seconds of time per image spend color correcting. There HAD to be an easier way. I began experimenting with various and very expensive tools, some of them working well, and others not so much. The design of the more expensive and glass models worked well, but were too valuable to just dangle from my neck recklessly during a shoot. It also was not large enough for use with my Video Equipment. I'm not going to get into color correcting Video footage, but I will tell you it is a task that shadows Photography. ChromaLens was born. Inexpensive; Flexible; Easy to use; Lightweight; Works the same even when all scratched up from being dropped and stepped on; Large enough for Video Lens's; Quick. |
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Unless i am taking a quick snapshot of a friend, I always use Full-Manual Control of the settings on my camera, allowing for maximum control of what I want to achieve. In the first example, you can see a mural that is onside a building. I've had my eye on this painting for some time and thought, "What a perfect example of Color Correction." I removed my camera from the bag, mounted it to my tripod, set my speed and aperture, and shot. The first image is the result of my previous WB setting from an indoor situation. I then grabbed my ChromaLens that hung from my neck on a lanyard, covered the lens with the ChromaLens, and set my WB through the ChromaLens. The whole process took about 3 seconds. Using the same speed and aperture, with my corrected WB, the second shot was created just as you see. |
All the beautiful colors matched almost perfectly when I previewed through the viewfinder with both eyes open to compare what each eye was seeing. One eye could see the actual mural in real life, the other eye sees what the camera captured. They were the same, or so close, it was not worth spending another valuable moment of my life thinking about correcting the image. From the camera to the printer, a 20 x 30 print was born, and without a single correction to my computer monitor or the image itself, and yet, the poster print looked just as if I were looking through a window at the mural itself. As that shooting day went on, and the lighting changes from place to place, the ChromaLens was used for each setting or area, and the colors were pure for the entire set of images made that day. |
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Ultimately saving me over 12,000 Seconds, or over Three Hours of correction work, just for that one shooting-day, made my decision that ALL Digital Photographers need to experience this! The second example was from a modeling shoot. The first result was because of a lighting change, I added an additional light to the scene and poof - the color turned warm, way too warm. ChromaLens took three seconds to reset my WB to the colors of the model's face, almost perfectly. Nothing in this world is really 100% perfect, so, almost perfect is perfect enough for me. When it takes science to determine the difference, then I'm good with the result. I know so many photographers that don't even think about WB and have their cameras set to auto, what a shame. Explore true color balance and you will waken the senses of your vision. |
Grey Cards are great, when you are measuring light and considering a single point of Light Data. In fact, to measure Light Data, you NEED a Grey Card and a good Light Meter. Are we measuring Light Data today, or are we taking photographs? When I am out with a family on a wedding shoot, or at an event covering the floor, I have no time to measure anything other than remaining battery power and managing memory cards. In the studio, I like to shoot, shoot, shoot, and repeat as necessary. When the scene changes, or the lighting is changed, I'd rather use a tool that requires little to NO calculation and get back to shooting than start measuring and metering. That fun stuff is barely required anymore in this digital age and is only important if you are taking photographs of exact colors. I invite you to experience the ChromaLens for yourself. |
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Buy a set today, you will get a Transparent and an Opaque filter to experiment with, USE the ChromaLens, don't just let it sit in your bag or hang from your neck, and start printing beautiful images. Since lighting changes to millions of combinations, it may take some experimenting to learn what the different filters achieve both individually, and coupled as a pair. Three different combinations of filtering. After you start getting into the swing of setting your WB with the ChromaLens, and shooting, and printing, you will be amazed at how much time, and mostly stress, is relieved from your duties of post-processing and color correction. Leave your monitor alone for a while, adjust it's color when it needs it. Do the same with your printer. Don't worry about the color's you will get from the Photo Print Companies at your local store. |
Just start enjoying photography all over again. |
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How does the ChromaLens work? Based on a simple theory of collecting the "Light Data" of an entire scene, and focusing all the Light Data to a small 1/16" window, and duplicating that result in front of the camera lens a multitude of time, giving your camera's sensors a more accurate "Average Color Balance" to set your White Balance to. ChromaLens bends all the light that is in front of the lens, and all the color of the composition or scene, into a tiny water-drop sized point. Your camera's sensors are designed to set White Balance based on a Grey Card. By collecting all this Light Data into a single Point, and by duplicating this point across the entire lens, your camera reads a mean average of Light Data, and reacts as if it were a Grey Card. |
The Opaque, or White ChromaLens does great when you are correcting for a scenic image, or where there are various types of lighting in use, and provides a great correction for flash use. I have had some unexplainable scenes that worked well without setting my WB with a ChromaLens, but I will never go on a shoot without it again. It IS Hocus Pocus. More like Hocus Focus! You will see the most dramatic changes in front of your own eyes. This is a real product, and after experiencing the difference, you will tell your friends, and they will want the ChromaLens in their bag too. |
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Website News:
DEC.18, 2009:
www.ChromaLens.com is currently having technical difficulties. Technical support has been contacted.
HostOnce.com has disabled the ChromaLens.com website without notice, perhaps their servers have crashed, who knows.
Techsupport has been contacted, however we will be at the mercy of their procedures.
The ChromaLens may be ordered from this page until the technical issue is resolved.
DEC. 30, 2009:
HostOnce.com has been "released" as our web service provider because of their failure to respond (at all) to our multipule tech-support inquiries.
The domain has been transferred to a new provider and should be back online shortly.
