B&H, Adorama should carry them. I got the ColorChecker Passport as it is more portable and protected in my view than the card. It also comes with the software. I am not sure the card alone comes with the software or not.

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Todd Ferguson

1. Set your ISO value.
1a.Use your camera in spot metering mode. I will assume that you are shooting with the center focus point and the spot meter is metering at that point also.
2. Aim the focus point onto the brightest area of the subject area. (Often a white cloud if you are shooting a landscape.)
3. On my Canon I would then press the shutter release button half way to take a meter reading with the spot meter.
3a. You can at this point either remember the exposure shutter speed and aperture or lock the exposure with the Exposure Lock butto, (* button) on a Canon camera.
4. Then it depends what mode you are shooting in as to what you change to add the +2 to +2.5 stops.
I will give an example of using Manual Mode... Set your ISO to 2000, 1/2000 and f/4.0 for example is a reading I get at 7pm spot metering on the sky outside from my family room. I then Add 2 stops of light by setting the shutter speed to 1/500 and aim the camera to include the bright area I metered and mostly the darker interior of the house. Take the photo. It will likely come out very dark but you can adjust it in PP.
4a. You can also shoot in Aperture or Shutter Priority mode and use the Exposure Compensation to add the 2-2.5 stops. This may be less steps but you will have to watch your exposure to make sure you don't get too slow of a shutter speed or an aperture wider than you want or have on your lens.

I think I have hopefully described this correctly but it is getting to be that time of the day when I may not be thinking as clearly as earlier.
Give it a try and let me know how it works for you. I find it useful to watch my meter display to see if the meter is still giving me the over exposure that I am expecting based on what I set or changed. I set my camera to display the control values on the rear LCD as that is sometimes just easier for my old eyes to read than looking in the viewfinder. I use both though.

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Todd Ferguson

I can see the logic in that combination. I am sure the next rewrite is coming at some point. But who knows where it will go. I am sure they see a huge potential market in phones if they can figure out how to capture a piece of it and monetize it.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Apple would have purchased Adobe. I guess they could have and still could if they saw they value. Apple certainly has the money to by just about anything.
Reminds me of when I was at GM during the time they launched the whole Saturn brand. IIRC the money that GM put into that adventure was more than it would have cost to by both Honda and Toyota at the time. But the executives would not have been able to make themselves as much money trying to take over Honda and Toyota. And they had already gone down the acquisition route with the purchase of Ross Perot's EDS...

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Todd Ferguson

Yes, we all pay taxes in one way or another, even those with the least of incomes.

To me it is a lot like the tragic deaths in Las Vegas. Very sad.
Yet I don't hear anyone mention the 3,000 lives that were lost today to abortions.
And about a third of those are blacks...but I don't see BLM marching about that either...

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Todd Ferguson

I have the 1Dx Mk II and I enjoy it a lot. I worked for a long time to save up for my gear.
But I also am happy driving my 2003 Suburban with 200,000 plus miles. I don't need a brand new $50,000 car.
It is all about choices... People make choices based on their needs and desires and ability to do what they choose.

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Todd Ferguson

$10 is nearly 33 cents a day... But have I and others have said there are alternatives and no one is forcing you to buy Adobe...
So, I just don't see what the beef is mostly... How much of our tax money gets wasted each day? I don't see this much complaining about that...

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Todd Ferguson

You can spot meter the brightest area or highlight and the meter will meter that as 18 percent gray, Zone 5 in the Zone system. Then you can take that highlight exposure and increase it by 2 to 2.5 stops and shoot. The photo will not likely look good on your camera LCD but if shot in RAW and PPed it can be very nice. I am assuming of course that your camera can spot meter...

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Todd Ferguson

No, I still have a much better understanding of the issue than you do or ever will I suspect.
SIMPLE SOLUTION...IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT DON'T BUY IT, DON'T USE IT AND DON'T CRY ABOUT IT!!!
There are many things in life that I an other people can't or choose not to buy but I don't sit around crying about it being unfair that I can't afford their product or that they should make it so I can afford it no matter what my level of income or wealth. That would be ridiculous...
If you don't use Adobe products and they go out of business you will be able to come on here and tell us you were right about NASCAR, perhaps the NFL and Adobe.

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Todd Ferguson

RAW files are captured with the settings included that your camera was set up for when you take the photo. When I open a file in Lightroom it can apply the Picture Style and Color Profile that are included or you can quickly change them. This is what makes the ColorChecker Passport such a useful tool as you can profile your camera for different conditions and get to a common corrected baseline of the RAW files...in a few clicks...

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Todd Ferguson

Having spent a fair amount of time as a software developer I can tell you that software gets aged out in part because of enhancements and fixes. Eventually it becomes such a hacked up mess that it is easier and necessary to just start over and rewrite it. Software is fundamentally two things, logic and language. Languages change over time. Who programs in Fortran any more... Methods of implementing the languages also change over time. Like many things it gets more complex and bloated over time. Methods that hardware forced us to use 30 years ago are no longer issues. I don't know but I highly doubt that Adobe is running any of the pieces of Photoshop that they developed 25 years ago in the original form. Change is constant and change and improvement cost money and time.

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Todd Ferguson

Great examples guys of what the JEPG only shooters are missing out on...
I calibrate my camera with the DTS software that comes with my Sekonic light meter and know with quite a bit of precision what it is capable of with about 30 minutes worth of calibration effort.

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Todd Ferguson

I believe that IBM bought Lotus as we had to use that stuff when I worked at IBM years ago... But that is what happens companies get bought up if anything of value is left or to eliminate them all together, or they die and go away. Apple at one time was looking at purchasing Adobe and got into a bunch of issues over PDF files with Adobe. Apple ended up developing their own PDF tools...

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Todd

Haydon,

You get it and are exactly right... each should act in their own self interest...
No one is being forced to do or use anything...
Having been in the software business in the past I think it is a bargain...
Others may or may not...

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Todd Ferguson

I get it fine... Apple is rolling in cash and charging $1000 for the iPhone X... is that also bad in your mind.
Unless you have been in the software business you don't know what you are even talking about. At $10 a month it probably takes two thousand subscribers to pay for one software engineer and associated overhead for a year. People are not willing to pay the price of a couple Happy Meals to use these tools each month...WOW...

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Todd Ferguson

How about if Adobe just shut the doors and stayed home...would that make everyone happy... Remember Lotus...and many other software companies that are no longer in existence. How about Digital Equipment Corporation, Prime, and many other computer hardware companies....gone.

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Todd Ferguson