Designed in Sweden by LIT Systems, the upcoming LIT DUO 1 is a pocket-sized light meter that promises to combine color, exposure, illuminance, spectrum, and flicker measurements into a single, easy-to-use device. The product is currently under development. Ask any cinematographer serious about their job and they will tell you that there are two essential tools they just can’t do without – a light and a color meter. These are useful for achieving the desired lighting contrast in a scene or for tackling mixed lighting scenarios on location, for example. However, rather than owning two separate devices, they might soon be able to save space in their bag by only carrying on set the LIT DUO 1, which is advertised to be the ultimate Swiss Army knife for cinematographers. Let’s take a closer look! The LIT DUO 1 light meter comes with a neck strap. Source: LIT Systems Overview and features The biggest selling point of this upcoming light meter, compared to other popular tools currently on the market, is that it packs 7 metering modes in an all-in-one device. These include: Color Temperature Mode: lets you measure the color temperature and green/magenta shift of a light source. It includes a Color Filter sub-function that provides suggestions on the correction filters required to match two different light sources; Color Temperature Mode on LIT DUO 1 light meter. Source: LIT Systems Full-Color Mode: lets you measure or match full-color lights and display values in CIE 1931 or HSI units; Full-Color Mode...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 20 June, 2023