![]() Beyond that, there are plenty of light meters in the App Store and on Google Play for Android. There’s the original $5 Cine Meter, which has the same false-color and WFM and very basic reflected metering, but nothing else I’m aware of that combines both visual tools and exposure measurement. Is there anything comparable out there in the market? The best I can say is, it’s on the list, but don’t hold your breath: my schedule’s pretty full for the foreseeable future. I’ve had lots of requests for it, but I need a serious block of free time to look into it. Is there any talk about developing a version for Android? The app is only available for Apple devices. With the upcoming version 1.6, it’ll read color temperature and tint, too.Ĭine Meter II also supports the $150 Lumu for incident metering, though it won’t read color temperature using Lumu. What does adding the photosphere give users?Ĭine Meter II uses the $30 Luxi photosphere for incident readings, including Lux/foot-candle measurements. You’ve got ISOs from 32 to 409,600 frame rates from 1 to 5000 fps ND filters from 0.3 to 3.0 and a separate compensation setting with a +/- 5 stop range for adding arbitrary filter factors. You can adjust shutter speeds or shutter angles, while seeing both values simultaneously. The app gives you cinematographer-friendly control over its readouts: digital aperture values for cameras with in-viewfinder readouts, or full stops and fractions for cine lenses. The RGB WFM is handy for checking color separation on bluescreen and greenscreen materials and setups, and for seeing color mismatches in mixed-lighting environments. These tools are great for lighting cycs and greenscreens you can immediately tell where you have hot spots or falloff. There’s a waveform monitor with luma, RGB, and YRGB modes for a graphical representation. You can display the camera’s picture in false color with adjustable levels, so you can see at a glance where your shadows and highlights are and where your midtones are falling. You can use the front camera for “light meter selfies” when you need to meter the lighting balance on a face and you’re the only model handy. With a recent iDevice and iOS version, it’s a zoomable spot meter, too. It’s a reflected-light meter using the camera in your iDevice. You put a lot of functionality into the app. ![]() So I’d say “everyone should consider using it,” but I would say that, wouldn’t I? Definitely. The design emphasizes usability first and foremost, not emulating the look and feel of physical meters. It’s aimed at cine and video users who need to measure light and/or look at it qualitatively with visual aids: a false-color display and a waveform monitor. It’s a light meter and lighting visualization tool for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Can you tell us who should consider using it? You’ve also been working on your app Cine Meter II. For the past couple of years I’ve been freelancing on various projects, like an archival film scanner and, um, “future products” for Video Devices. Since then? Mostly deep code and UI design for broadcast products and productions at a variety of companies: Abekas Video Systems, Louth Automation, Pinnacle Systems, CBS, ABC, Omneon Video Networks. We sold four of them before the company went bust. Summer job in grad school and full-time afterwards was as a programmer at Circuit Studios, developing the Velocit圓D animation system: the world’s first real-time 3D solids-modeling system for broadcast (this was the mid ‘80s). Ever since, I’ve been doing bits of freelance production, from PA to location audio to cam op to 1st AC to DP to live broadcast technical director to editor/colorist and back again, in no particular order.įirst summer job was as a PA/lab runner for an animation company in Virginia, working on viewscreen displays for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I made a short film for English class in eighth grade (Super 8, double-system sound, wild sync) and I was hooked an actual film class the last two years of high school sank the hook deeper. How did you end up fluttering around the film and television industry? I prefer the term “geek,” though I do fit in the “nerd” overlap on the famous Venn diagram… and, apparently, in the overlap on the xkcd Venn diagram, too. If you’ve never heard of the app or don’t know Wilt, you’ve come to the right place.Īdam, you’re a complete tech nerd. We can now add Cine Meter II to our list of helpfuls after running into its creator Adam Wilt at a DCS event in Burbank. There are a lot of good filmmaking apps available today: MovieSlate, Artemis, Sun Surveyor, Shot Lister, and pCAM Film + Digtal Pro to name a few.
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