Cine Meter II Hack 4,5 + Redeem Codes
light and color metering
Developer: Adam Wilt
Category: Photo & Video
Price: $24.99 (Download for free)
Version: 4,5
ID: com.adamwilt.Cine-Meter-II
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Description
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 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.)
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.
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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.
“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 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.)
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.
Version history
4,5
2022-09-14
• 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.
• You can fetch brightness and color data remotely using HTTP: use Help & Settings > Enable Web Server.
4.4
2021-11-11
• 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.
• “Luxi” settings now called “Incident Meter” settings, as Luxis are getting very hard to find and most people will use other diffusion.
4.3
2021-10-01
Updated for new iPad mini.
4.2
2021-06-12
• 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.
• Design cleanup: the last vestiges of the old iOS 5&6 look and feel have been hunted down and eradicated.
4.1
2020-04-27
• 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.
• 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.
4.0
2020-03-19
• 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).
• 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).
1.21
2018-05-21
• 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.
1.20
2018-04-28
• Improved error handling when no mail account is found for sending feedback.
1.19
2018-02-08
• 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!).
1.18
2017-12-05
• DIFFERENCE MEASUREMENT: When exposure is locked, you can see how the current exposure and color differ from your locked values.
• LOG RECORDING: You can record exposure and color data in log files for analysis in other apps.
• SLOWER SHUTTERS: shutters down to 60 seconds for long-exposure work.
• LOG RECORDING: You can record exposure and color data in log files for analysis in other apps.
• SLOWER SHUTTERS: shutters down to 60 seconds for long-exposure work.
1.17
2017-10-31
• A minor change to the screen-drawing code, so the screen shouldn't scramble if you hold an iPhone X upside-down.
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If you find Cine Meter II useful, please give it a good review on the App Store. Good reviews encourage further development!
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If you find Cine Meter II useful, please give it a good review on the App Store. Good reviews encourage further development!
1.16
2017-07-24
• Improved default color calibration settings.
• Updated help to include color calibration using recent, high-CRI LED sources.
Note: one review says this update is “broken” but it’s working for other people. I've installed from the App Store on 9 different iDevices running iOS 6 – iOS 10 and it's running properly on all of them, and hundreds of new sales and countless upgrades have worked without issues. If you have ANY questions, concerns, or problems—before or after purchasing/updating—please contact me directly: [email protected]
• Updated help to include color calibration using recent, high-CRI LED sources.
Note: one review says this update is “broken” but it’s working for other people. I've installed from the App Store on 9 different iDevices running iOS 6 – iOS 10 and it's running properly on all of them, and hundreds of new sales and countless upgrades have worked without issues. If you have ANY questions, concerns, or problems—before or after purchasing/updating—please contact me directly: [email protected]
1.15
2017-04-05
Bugs fixed:
• In floating-shutter, floating-ISO, and floating-ND modes, over- and underexposure warnings would stick improperly once they were set. No more: once the light level is back in range, the warnings now turn off, as they should.
• In floating-shutter, floating-ISO, and floating-ND modes, over- and underexposure would show a + or - on aperture as well as on the floating value. Now the + or - only appears on the floating value, as it should.
• In floating-shutter, floating-ISO, and floating-ND modes, over- and underexposure warnings would stick improperly once they were set. No more: once the light level is back in range, the warnings now turn off, as they should.
• In floating-shutter, floating-ISO, and floating-ND modes, over- and underexposure would show a + or - on aperture as well as on the floating value. Now the + or - only appears on the floating value, as it should.
1.14
2017-03-30
• Added URL scheme "cinemeterii" so you can open Cine Meter II from other apps, like Workflow or Launch Center Pro.
1.13
2017-01-25
• ISOs as low as ISO 6 for really, really slow film.
• Dedicated Low Power Mode to increase battery life.
• Cine Meter II automatically switches to low power mode when running on an iOS 9+ iPhone in Low Power Mode.
• Reduced power consumption overall.
• Dedicated Low Power Mode to increase battery life.
• Cine Meter II automatically switches to low power mode when running on an iOS 9+ iPhone in Low Power Mode.
• Reduced power consumption overall.
1.12
2016-09-15
• Lumu should now work reliably on all iPhone 6S devices!
1.11
2016-08-16
• Tap and hold SHUTTER, APERTURE, ISO, or ND to “float” it: the floating value changes with the light.
• Tap Exp Lock to “arm” it: the entire screen now works as the exposure lock button.
• iOS 8+ : Set WB to unlocked, locked, 3200 K, or 5600 K; WB can be shown.
• Green/magenta corrections now suggested in 1/4 plusgreen/minusgreen increments
• Many annoying little bugs fixed.
• Tap Exp Lock to “arm” it: the entire screen now works as the exposure lock button.
• iOS 8+ : Set WB to unlocked, locked, 3200 K, or 5600 K; WB can be shown.
• Green/magenta corrections now suggested in 1/4 plusgreen/minusgreen increments
• Many annoying little bugs fixed.
1.10
2016-03-04
• Aperture-priority capability (tap Aperture to set aperture, shutter reacts to light; tap Shutter to set shutter, aperture reacts to light).
• Dedicated Still Photo Mode: replaces frame rate with exposure value; shutter times used instead of angles.
• Shutter speeds can be shown in 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4 stop increments.
• Tap & Hold picture to capture screenshot (iOS 7+; was: tap & hold Aperture).
• Show Debug Window moved to Settings (was: Tap & Hold picture).
• Tap & hold color info 2 seconds for calibration (iOS 8+; was: 0.5 second).
• Compute Brightness used automatically when needed on iOS 8.4–9.1
• Dedicated Still Photo Mode: replaces frame rate with exposure value; shutter times used instead of angles.
• Shutter speeds can be shown in 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4 stop increments.
• Tap & Hold picture to capture screenshot (iOS 7+; was: tap & hold Aperture).
• Show Debug Window moved to Settings (was: Tap & Hold picture).
• Tap & hold color info 2 seconds for calibration (iOS 8+; was: 0.5 second).
• Compute Brightness used automatically when needed on iOS 8.4–9.1
1.9
2015-09-26
“Use Computed Brightness” setting added for proper exposure readings on iOS 9. See http://www.adamwilt.com/cinemeterii/computedbrightness.html for details
1.8
2015-09-19
Cine Meter II Version 1.8 adds two features:
• Photometry: reflected light luminance can be measured in foot-Lamberts or cd/m² (Settings > Show Luminance).
• Color Correction panel (iOS 8+ only): tap ⇆ to toggle between ambient-to-target and source-to-ambient corrections.
• Photometry: reflected light luminance can be measured in foot-Lamberts or cd/m² (Settings > Show Luminance).
• Color Correction panel (iOS 8+ only): tap ⇆ to toggle between ambient-to-target and source-to-ambient corrections.
1.7
2015-07-06
Just bug fixes this time:
• Tint Gain range expanded: 25% to 150%, to allow for wider camera variability (some iPhone cameras are *very* tint-sensitive).
• Setting ND Filter Display to "Stops" is now properly remembered. (It wasn't before. Oops, sorry 'bout that!)
• Tint Gain range expanded: 25% to 150%, to allow for wider camera variability (some iPhone cameras are *very* tint-sensitive).
• Setting ND Filter Display to "Stops" is now properly remembered. (It wasn't before. Oops, sorry 'bout that!)
1.6
2015-04-21
Version 1.6 adds color metering (iOS8+ required). Also new in version 1.6:
• Luxi readings can be taken with the back camera (turn it on in Settings).
• Luxi's view is visible so you can more easily position Luxi For All on the camera.
• Screenshots can be taken by tapping and holding the APERTURE value.
• Luxi readings can be taken with the back camera (turn it on in Settings).
• Luxi's view is visible so you can more easily position Luxi For All on the camera.
• Screenshots can be taken by tapping and holding the APERTURE value.
1.5
2015-01-09
• You can set ND by density (for example, ND 0.6), by light transmission (1/4), or by the number of stops (2 stops).
• Better handling of camera and microphone permissions.
If you find Cine Meter II useful, please review it on the App Store. If you have any problems with it, please contact me!
• Better handling of camera and microphone permissions.
If you find Cine Meter II useful, please review it on the App Store. If you have any problems with it, please contact me!
1.4
2014-11-19
• Lumu™ incident meter support.
• Cal… button in Compensation control lets you set calibration directly.
• lux/fc readout in incident modes.
• WFM renders correctly with iDevice upside down.
• disabled irrelevant controls in incident mode.
• Cal… button in Compensation control lets you set calibration directly.
• lux/fc readout in incident modes.
• WFM renders correctly with iDevice upside down.
• disabled irrelevant controls in incident mode.
1.3
2014-10-08
• Updated for iOS 8.
• Scene brightness computed from picture content when the camera's brightness information isn't available.
• Scene brightness computed from picture content when the camera's brightness information isn't available.
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Ratings
4.3 out of 5
19 Ratings
Reviews
JenLS,
Most recent upgrade is broken
I love this app. To have a color temp meter for $25 + cost of a little white dome? Amazing!
Only thing, the app received an update a few days ago, and now it won't open. At all. I deleted it and downloaded it again, in case I had a rare corrupted copy — but nope. The fresh download is busted, too. There was a catastrophic bug that shipped in the last package.
I hope you are on it, Adam Wilt. I won't give you one star for a bug that will hopefully get fixed immediately (since low stars are forever). But, well, it's a zero star app at the moment, because it's working zero percent. Please fix soon.
Only thing, the app received an update a few days ago, and now it won't open. At all. I deleted it and downloaded it again, in case I had a rare corrupted copy — but nope. The fresh download is busted, too. There was a catastrophic bug that shipped in the last package.
I hope you are on it, Adam Wilt. I won't give you one star for a bug that will hopefully get fixed immediately (since low stars are forever). But, well, it's a zero star app at the moment, because it's working zero percent. Please fix soon.
Sultawi,
Great tool!
Cine Meter II is a very useful and accurate light and color meter for video and stills (both digital and silver).
It is an accurate spot meter (matches my venerable Pentax and my newer Sekonic perfectly after one calibration) and with a Luxi sphere works as an incident meter also (matches my Sekonic too, after calibration). Even better, it is a color meter, and seems *more* accurate than my old Minolta, matching my Kinos to cheap fluorescents.
While this won't replace my meters (but it probably could) I don't bother carrying my older ones any more...
The developer is super responsive too!
It is an accurate spot meter (matches my venerable Pentax and my newer Sekonic perfectly after one calibration) and with a Luxi sphere works as an incident meter also (matches my Sekonic too, after calibration). Even better, it is a color meter, and seems *more* accurate than my old Minolta, matching my Kinos to cheap fluorescents.
While this won't replace my meters (but it probably could) I don't bother carrying my older ones any more...
The developer is super responsive too!
Craigo4000,
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.
Timmy_664,
The best $25 I have spent in recent memory
For aspiring cinematographers (and probably professional ones as well) this is an amazing app. I will be using it regularly for my fledgling short film productions. Also great customer service. Five stars all around.
Jay sea 98765,
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.
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.
Vacapipopo,
Lumu Power Support in future?
Adam, I love the app and have used it for years with the Lumu alongside my Sekonic. I just purchased the Lumu Power before having realized it's not supported by CineMeter. Do you have any plans to support? Curious what barriers might stand in the way if any.
Great product!
Great product!
ganzoltd,
Finally!
A very reliable and accurate light and color meter once you calibrate it. I have used it both on my iPad and phone using 216 diffusion instead of the Lumu and get great results. The false color option matches the Alexa very nicely and is truly a good tool. The real beauty is that I don't always carry my Spectra or Minolta meters but I do have my phone with me and it gives me the confidence to have extremely accurate light and kelvin and green-magenta shift readings. I have used it on scouts and production with good results. If you are a cinematographer at any level it is the perfect app to have with you at all times.
This app is wack,
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 😕
Movie_Ant,
Amazing! Save you lots of $$$$!
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 can't replace like a shiny new gimbal or lighting kit.
Just sayin'....
Just sayin'....
dstubblefield65,
Photographers DON'T PURCHASE
Unfortunatly they advertise this as a photography and cine color meter but after purchasing it I found out that it only works with constant lighting sources NOT STROBE/FLASH. So I just wasted the $25 on a product that is useless to my needs. One big problem that I see is that you have to calabrate it using a real color meter that cost $1,500. Now if I had a real color meter why would I purchase this ap, the reason for purchasing it was to save the money. Photographers DON'T PURCHASE!!!
