The Food Photography Topic

[C. sapidus]

1 hour ago, Tan Can Cook said:

 

I still have and use my i1 unit from Xrite. It is still working after all these years.

 

Wow, that's great! Apparently they are now out of production, so I hope yours keeps working.

[paulraphael]

On 3/20/2025 at 12:44 PM, Tan Can Cook said:

 

I still have and use my i1 unit from Xrite. It is still working after all these years.

 

I had to retire mine, because it drifted too much, and Xrite's calibration fee was rather insane. Mine has the Greytag-Macbeth branding, so is probably quite a bit older than yours.

 

After some research I settled on a Calibrite Color Checker Display Pro. As a colorimeter it has some advantages over a spectrophotometer (more accurate in shadow areas, much cheaper) and a big disadvantage (can't calibrate printers). I don't like the industrial design as much as the i1's. But so far it works well in an art photography printing workflow.