The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50

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• nayuki 17 minutes ago
  I didn't learn much from reading this article. Questions linger in my mind, for example: What are the CIE XYZ coordinates of each colored square? What is the spectral distribution of each square? How were the colors chosen?
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  • eviks 7 minutes ago
    These aren't appropriate questions for the birthday party
• isomorphic 1 hour ago
  These are great, even for manually-adjusted color workflows.

  Fun fact, though: You have to replace them every couple of years (or sooner) because no pigment/dye is stable, especially if exposed to bright light.

  Having a test shot with one of these in it saves you untold amounts of pain later.

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  • Wistar 26 minutes ago
    Many of them, especially the smaller hard-case versions, have a space to write date of first-use.