Description
The X-Rite Digital ColorChecker® SG is a comprehensive test table designed and built specifically for the precision profiling of modern digital cameras. The surface of the table has a sleeker finish than the ColorChecker® Classic (hence the SG, Semi-Gloss product designation) to give it a more saturated color, brighter white and darker black.
The Digital ColorChecker® SG standard uses an extended 140-element palette that includes both naturally occurring colors and specially selected simulated colors located at different corners of the working range of modern digital cameras. The table contains all 24 color values of the ColorChecker® Classic standard. The row of alternating white, gray and black boxes along the outer edge of the Digital ColorChecker® SG table serves to verify that the standard is evenly lit.
Color information is used by X-Rite i1Match and ProfileMaker 5 software (sold separately). These software tools analyze the color values recorded by the camera and produce an ICC correction profile, which you can use further when processing frames from the same camera.
Digital ColorChecker® SG is X-Rite's most accurate digital camera profiling benchmark for professional photography and advertising production studios. If you want to get adequate results at an affordable price, check out the X-Rite ColorChecker® Passport color standard, which works in a similar way and comes with free software for generating color profiles.