Cine Meter II

Cine Meter II

light and color metering

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All Versions of Cine Meter II

5.0

March 20, 2024

• Simplified exposure and color meter calibration using only your iDevice’s cameras (details in Help > Quick Start). • Color calibration lets you set both CCT and tint, or x and y if you’re using Show Chromaticity. Tint gain is no longer used. (You can turn on Legacy Color Calibration in Settings to do things the old way.) • “Pure” measurement mode: turn off Show Exposure Controls to declutter the display and focus on brightness and color values.
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4,5

September 14, 2022

• You can display color readings as CIE 1931 x,y values: use Help & Settings > Show Chromaticity. • You can fetch brightness and color data remotely using HTTP: use Help & Settings > Enable Web Server.
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4.4

November 11, 2021

• You can now choose which back camera to use for incident readings, on iDevices with multiple back cameras. • “Luxi” settings now called “Incident Meter” settings, as Luxis are getting very hard to find and most people will use other diffusion.
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4.3

October 1, 2021

Updated for new iPad mini.

4.2

June 12, 2021

• Fixed the partially hidden landscape mode screenshot title on iPhones. • Design cleanup: the last vestiges of the old iOS 5&6 look and feel have been hunted down and eradicated.
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4.1

April 27, 2020

• Disable all unwanted “sensors”, leaving only those you normally use (for example: enable Front Luxi and Back Spotmeter, disable all the rest). • Display color tint as Wratten CC number, plusgreen/minusgreen value, or ∆uv. • Save calibration data to a file, so you can delete and reinstall Cine Meter II without losing your calibration. • Haptic feedback on haptics-compatible iDevices. • Fixed a camera lockup bug on older iDevices when closing and reopening Cine Meter II with the Settings screen displayed.
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4.0

March 19, 2020

• Fixed: EV now displays correctly when aperture is 64+ or 0.7-. • Fixed: Low Light Mode now works on older iPads. • Cine Meter II is now a universal app, running natively on iPads as well as iPhones and iPods touch (iPod touches?). • Brightness Correction adjustment added for devices that read 2/3 stop too high in bright light (see “Adjust Brightness Correction” in Help).
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1.21

May 21, 2018

• Low Light Mode switch in Settings, to extend low-light sensitivity by 2.5 to 3 stops. Low light mode lets the camera's shutter speed drop to 1/3 or 1/2 second for better light gathering. In low light mode, images may be blurrier in dark scenes, and the meter may respond more slowly in bright scenes.
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1.20

April 28, 2018

• Improved error handling when no mail account is found for sending feedback.
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1.19

February 8, 2018

• Bug fix: Cine Meter II no longer claims to open text files, so it won't be called when you try to view text files in iOS 11’s Files app (sorry about that!).
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Description of Cine Meter II

Cine Meter II measures light and color, so you can light and shoot and know what you'll 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 It's a zoomable spotmeter with an RGB waveform monitor and a false-color picture. It's an incident meter using a Lenny Hat or other diffusion, or Lumu™ Lite attachment, with lux and foot-candle readouts. (Lumu Power is NOT supported, and flash metering is NOT possible.) It's 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. You'll 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. _______________________ READ BEFORE YOU BUY: Cine Meter II is NOT a flash meter; it can't 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.
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Cine Meter II: FAQ

Does Cine Meter II work on iPad devices?

The Cine Meter II software is compatible with iPad devices.
Cine Meter II was released by Adam Wilt.
Your iOS device should have iOS 11.0 or later installed to run the app.
4.3: The Cine Meter II app gets a lot of positive feedback.
The App Category Of The Cine Meter Ii App Is Photo & Video.
5.0 is the current version of Cine Meter II.
Cine Meter II released its latest update on July 2, 2024.
Cine Meter II was initially released on February 6, 2023.
The Cine Meter II app is rated Adam Wilt.
Currently, the Cine Meter II app supports the following languages: English.
Sorry, Cine Meter II is not part of Apple Arcade.
No, Cine Meter II is not eligible for in-app purchases.
No, Cine Meter II does not offer compatibility with Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of Cine Meter II

  • It is useful but not easy to use

    Please make some simple tutorial videos - the documentation is overly wordy, dense and confusing - and spread over multiple webpages. I’ve read the docs several times and still having difficulty using this to match a light to ambient. It’s more of an interface problem than a technical one. For example, I just want to point it at one light (or ambient) and then point it at another light and have it tell me what I need to make it match. Maybe it can do this but I cannot find it.

    Developer Response

    You're right, I don't have a How-to for that. In a nutshell: measure one light; hit EXP LOCK, turn DIFFERENCE MEASUREMENT on, then tap the screen to lock the reading. While the lock is on, you'll see the difference between the locked reading and the current reading for both exposure and color. I hope to make some tutorial videos later this summer, but that'll depend on my work schedule, so I can't promise anything.
  • A gimmick

    You need a 1500 $ color meter or a spot on incandescent source to calibrate the kelvin, you also need a professional light meter to calibrate the aperture readout. (To the best of my observation you cannot calibrate the lux/ Foot Candle output (AND the Lux read out is therefore incorrect as compared with my pro meter.

    After I purchased I finally read the fine print in the manual that says “tint correction values shown are appropriate for full spectrum sources with fluorescent LED’s and other “discontinuous spectrum sources” you typically need 1/2 to 2/3 of the tint correction shown.

    Developer Response

    Yes, a $25 app running on the $15 camera module built into a phone needs calibration for best results! For color, you can get a spot-on incandescent source (a light bulb) for about $2. For exposure, use any other light meter or camera that has an exposure readout. You can also calibrate by taking a reading, shooting a gray card using that reading, and measuring the resulting gray level in the image; if you're shooting film, a bracketing test can give you your needed correction in one go, even using a fully manual camera without its own exposure meter. As the instructions say, lux/fc won't change as you adjust compensation, but once you set calibration they *will* change. And no, they probably will not perfectly match your other meter, as Cine Meter II can only be adjusted to 1/10 stop accuracy, not to +/- 1 lux or fc (none of my four calibrated pro meters perfectly match each other in lux/fc mode either, even though they match to within 1/10 stop in aperture reading). Tint corrections are as accurate as with any other tristimulus meter (e.g. Sekonic C-500) but spiky spectra can fool all such devices. You need a spectrometer ($1200+) for more accurate readings; that's just the nature of the technology. See https://www.dvinfo.net/article/production/lighting/on-the-color-of-light-and-the-measurement-thereof.html for a discussion of the problem; see https://cinematography.net/LED-Camera/LED-Camera-Index.html for some real-world measurements.
  • Not for professional use

    Every time I navigate in or out of the settings menu I get a pop up window that says “no mail accounts.” Telling my to set a mail account on my phone. Of which I already have several. Very annoying. Not for professional use. Sad, because there are some good elements but overshadowed by poor UX design 😕

    Developer Response

    That's not "poor UX design", that was a bug! It's been fixed: no more system pop-up when you enter settings and iOS thinks you don't have any email accounts available. Sadly, Mr. Wack never contacted me, so we weren't able to find out why his iDevice reports no email accounts when he claims he had several set up. That's not normal behavior and I wasn't able to replicate it on my own iDevices.