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| Lastolite LL LR1250 12-Inch Ezybalance Card (Grey/White) | 
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Category: Photography
Publisher: Lastolite
Studio: Lastolite
Brand: Lastolite
Label: Lastolite
Color: Gray
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6 x 1 x 6
MPN: LL LR1250
Model: LL LR1250
UPC: 870862004559
EAN: 0870862004559
ASIN: B0009QZDL6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Colour correction pre and post capture. | | • | Exposure control pre and post capture. | | • | Accurate colour rendition. | | • | Collapsible, durable, and cleanable. | | • | Double sided grey and white. |
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Product Description
The Ezybalance is a revolutionary tool ideal for adjusting color balance and exposure settings in both digital and film format cameras, as well as DV cams. The Ezybalance gives accurate color rendition to cameras by providing a pure white surface upon which the camera can perform a white balance. The other side of the Ezybalance provides an 18% gray card surface suitable for adjusting the camera to get the most accurate exposure setting. Conventional methods of exposure control consist of using large gray cumbersome cardboard that is easily stained and over time becomes dog-eared, posing the risk of taking incorrect exposure readings. By design, the Ezybalance folds to just a third of it's 12" opened round size making it infinitely more convenient and allowing it to fit into a small bag or pocket. Suitable for all environments, the Ezybalance is made of a high quality, wipe clean surface material, sewn to a sprung steel rim using triple row stitch technology - further ensuring its craftsmanship and durability.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Great Tool September 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great product. Every photographer new to photography that do not understand how to set the white balance or exposure using the camera's built in light meter, should purchase this 18% gray card or this 18% gray card tool.
This tool helps take the guess work out of getting the correct white balance and exposure setting right the first time. Even though I know how to use Photoshop to correct the white balance and exposure, it's more efficient to have the correct settings from the very start, which means less time making corrections during post processing.
To determine the exposure using the card fist I set my camera's ISO speed to match the lighting conditions, such as outside ISO 100 indoors ISO 400, meter to spot and mode dial to auto. Then fill the viewfinder with the card and be sure that the focus is out of focus so that you are reading the overall card and not just a spot on the card, with the flash set to off take the picture.
Now playback the image and display the exposure setting set by the camera, such as f-stop and shutter speed. Now set the camera to manual and set the f-stop and shutter to correspond to the auto settings. Now if your camera has a manual white balance setting follow the above methods to set the white balance. My Nikno D60 has just such a function, which will allow for setting the white balance by taking a picture of a gray or white card to set the manual white balance and hold that setting in memory or use another pictured stored on the media card with correct the white balance settings.
Now your settings are correct for exposure and white balance and you can start taking pictures. Remember if your location or the lighting changes you must recalibrate the white balance and exposure.
If you are experienced in using Photoshop, open an image and on the menu bar got layer > new adjustment layer > levels and click Ok to create the adjustment layer, select the middle gray eyedropper and click the gray card in the image. You may or may not see a change, if the exposure or white balance was set correctly there will be no change, but if the setting were not correct you will see the exposure and white balance change.
The out come that you want is no change, this will mean that everything was set correctly and that no adjustments are needed. But if there were changes and there are other image taken under the same lighting conditions you can save the level setting and use it to correct the other images, with the levels dialog window still open click the save button and give the level settings a name and save it and save the corrections made to the image.
To use the saved settings to correct another image just open the image to be corrected and on the menu bar select layer > new adjustment layer > levels and click Ok to create the adjustment layer. Click the load button and load the file that you named and saved in the previous steps, the image will change to reflect the correct exposure and white balance click Ok and save the image.
This will help in post processing by allowing you to make corrects in a timely manner.
If you use Photoshop's Lightroom you can save the setting and then apply it to many images at one time, which will speed up the post processing time.
 Compact, Useful, Multipurpose March 13, 2008
I bought this just before I moved to RAW format - and honestly didn't need it after I did (it's easier to do white balance fixes in RAW for me). So I ended up using it more as a reflector for close up portraits (placed at the chest to bring light up to the face).
As far as grey cards go, this is a great idea and concept - and the cross hairs in the grey are really useful for auto focus cameras and save time. And, of course, it doubles as a reflector, which is also nice.
Very small and portable, easy to fold up, goes into a camera bag with no added weight and very little bulk.
Lastolite LL LR1250 12-Inch Ezybalance Card (Grey/White) February 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
upon recommendation of my photography teacher, I purchased this product from Amazon, when I discovered another site was out of stock & was charging more for the same product.
Easy to operate, extremely lightweight & folds into it's own pouch.
Picture Perfect August 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a gadget that should be in every photographers toolkit. It is small enough to be in my bag, yet provides a large enough target to get the white balance and exposure settings right. I am getting better photographs with the use of the collapsible card.
Does what it is advertised to do. Very satisfied July 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Does what it is advertised to do. Made the photos from a trip to China stellar.
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