Cine Meter II app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Adam Wilt
First release : 28 Jun 2014
App size: 5.93 Mb
Cine Meter II measures light and color, so you can light and shoot and know what youll get.
“Cine Meter II is an essential app for every cinematographer.”
— Jon Fauer, ASC
“[T]he perfect app to have with you at all times.”
— Roberto “Ganzo” Schaefer, ASC, AIC
Its a zoomable spotmeter with an RGB waveform monitor and a false-color picture.
Its an incident meter using a Luxi™ or other diffusion, or Lumu™ Lite attachment, with lux and foot-candle readouts. (Lumu Power is NOT supported, and flash metering is NOT possible.)
Its a color meter, showing color temperature and green/magenta tint, and giving you corrections to or from your target color.
Measure more than just shutter-priority or aperture-priority: calculate shutter speed, shutter angle, aperture, ND, or ISO directly.
• The exposure meter shows your stop as a decimal value (for cameras with EVF iris readouts) or as a full stop and fraction (for cine lenses with marked iris rings). Cine Meter II lets you use shutter angles – ideal for Digital Bolex and Blackmagic cameras – as well as speeds, and you can dial in ND filters and arbitrary exposure compensations. The spotmeter is zoomable up to 15x magnification (on devices that support camera zooming), using either the front or back camera.
• The waveform monitor shows you how light levels vary across a scene. Youll see how smooth and even the lighting is on a greenscreen or background, and find subtle hotspots and shadows at a glance. The waveform’s RGB mode shows you color imbalances in the image and gives you a handy way to check color purity and separation for chroma-keying.
• False-color mode lets you define allowable contrast ranges, and see instantly which shadows are underexposed and what highlights risk clipping.
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READ BEFORE YOU BUY:
Cine Meter II is NOT a flash meter; it cant measure strobes.
Cine Meter II does NOT work with Lumu Power (the Lightning port Lumu), only Lumu Lite (the headphone jack Lumu).
Cine Meter II gives you *absolute* light meter readings, but *relative* picture and waveform monitor levels: Cine Meter II’s picture and waveform monitor do not use the *exact* exposure shown by the light meter (they are close to the meter reading, but can differ from it slightly). The picture and waveform monitor show you *relative* levels within a scene, not *absolute* levels based on the meter reading.
Shutter speeds, apertures, and ISOs shown in Cine Meter II are for metering purposes only and do not control the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO of the iPhone camera. The iPhone camera uses whatever exposure settings it needs to capture a reading. Cine Meter II is a light and color meter only; it is *not* a camera simulator.
See http://www.adamwilt.com/cinemeterii/details.html#How_It_Works for details.
Latest reviews of Cine Meter II app for iPhone and iPad
As usual from Adam Wilt, an outstanding tool for cinematographers of all stripes. At Casual Dog Productions, our main cameras and field monitors have scopes. But our B cameras - like the new GH4 - do not. What a value this app is!
This is a good app, but v2 doesnt offer enough extra (hardly anything, actually) over v1 that it deserves a whole version number upgrade, much less a $16 upgrade fee. What v2 gives you is equivalent to what other developers provide with free upgrades. Stick with v1.
Great product! The color meter update literally saved me $1500 dollars alone! Add the light metering and well... You have a couple thousand dollars to go get stuff apps cant replace like a shiny new gimbal or lighting kit. Just sayin....
My most favorite light meter app. Easy to use and great features.
I had the original app Cine Meter… now with Cine Meter II, I have a color meter built in. easy and in my pocket at all times. I had some questions and Adam was quick to respond. great app and customer service.