Datacolor ColorReader Pro Calibration Kit

Datacolor ColorReader Pro: Professional Color Matching at Your Fingertips

Eliminate the guesswork and achieve perfect color fidelity in your photo and video projects with the Datacolor ColorReader Pro. This professional-grade color identification tool is an essential accessory for any creative who demands absolute accuracy from inspiration to final output. Say goodbye to frustrating color mismatches, costly reshoots, and time-consuming edits. The ColorReader Pro empowers you to capture any color from the real world and instantly find its precise digital equivalent, ensuring seamless consistency across your entire workflow.

Achieve Unmatched Color Confidence

The ColorReader Pro is engineered for superior performance, delivering an industry-leading color match accuracy of over 94%. Whether you´re matching a client´s brand color on location, capturing the subtle hues of a landscape for a digital painting, or ensuring props and backdrops are perfectly coordinated for a video shoot, this device provides reliable, repeatable results you can trust. It bridges the critical gap between the physical world and your digital canvas, giving you the confidence that the color you see is the color you get.

For professionals who demand exactitude, the ColorReader Pro is the ultimate tool. Just as a set of digital calipers provides exacting measurements for physical dimensions, the ColorReader Pro delivers unparalleled precision for the dimension of color, ensuring your vision is translated flawlessly into your work.

Key Benefits for Your Creative Workflow:

* Instantaneous Results: Capture and identify any color in seconds, dramatically speeding up your on-set or in-studio process.
* Seamless Integration: Wirelessly connect to the powerful ColorReader mobile app via Bluetooth to save, label, and organize your captured colors into custom palettes.
* Enhanced Collaboration: Effortlessly share color palettes with clients, team members, or other departments to ensure everyone is aligned with the precise color standards for the project.
* Ultimate Portability: Compact, lightweight, and rechargeable, the ColorReader Pro is designed to be your constant companion, ready to capture inspiration wherever you find it.
* Versatile Application: Go beyond digital. The device also matches colors to major paint brand fan decks, making it an invaluable tool for set designers, production artists, and studio managers.

Main Features:

The ColorReader Pro is packed with advanced technology to support the most demanding creative professionals. Its sophisticated optical system, featuring six high-CRI white LEDs and a complex optical lens, ensures a controlled, consistent light source for highly accurate readings on any flat surface. The integrated OLED display allows for standalone use, showing you color data directly on the device without needing to reference your phone. The powerful mobile app provides access to all major digital color spaces, including sRGB, Adobe RGB, CMYK, Hex, and L*a*b*, and includes a Quality Control (QC) function to compare a target color against a sample. The device can store up to 10.000 colors internally, allowing you to build a massive personal library of color references.

Technical Specifications:

* Measurement Geometry: 45°/0° ring illumination optics
* Light Source: 6 high-CRI (Color Rendering Index) white LEDs
* Accuracy: >94% average match rate to Datacolor’s color standards
* Repeatability: < 0.2 dE00 on white
* Measurement Time: < 1 second
* Connectivity: Bluetooth Low Energy
* Device Display: OLED color display
* Battery: Rechargeable Lithium Polymer
* On-Device Storage: 10.000 colors
* App Compatibility: iOS and Android
* Supported Color Data: CIELAB, RGB, CMYK, Hex, LCh
* Supported Fan Decks: Matches to major paint and color system libraries (updated via app)