Color checker cards that allow us to maintain accurate colors through post are part of the industry scenery. Nigel Cooper, though, thinks they are no longer needed in today’s digital workflows.
I come from a film background by way of Hasselblad and Mamiya medium format cameras and Nikon & Canon 35mm SLR cameras loaded with color neg, transparency, and various black and white film stocks. I also had a nice darkroom stocked with lovely smelling developer, stop bath, and bleach fix chemicals with trays to deal with anything up to 12×16-inch fiber-based prints with an assortment of cut-out dodge and burn cards on thin wires and a kettle with plenty of tea bags on hand for making up my own, preferable, alternative to sepia toner. I also had heated tanks for Cibachrome printing from Fujichrome 50-ASA transparency film.
