QuikBalance Tri-Fold Panel Instructions 1
Introduction Thank you for choosing the Impact QuikBalance Tri-Fold Panel. This unique, portable, easy-to-use triple-panel design has a black panel, a white panel and an 18% gray panel that are all connected, with a reflective silver reverse side on each panel. The Tri-Fold Panel makes it possible to achieve perfect exposure and color balance in your photos and videos every time.
Contents Include • • • • Impact QuikBalance Tri-Fold Panel Storage sleeve User instruction manual One-Year Limited Warranty Dimensions Specifications QBP-TF-12 Each Panel Overall 12” × 12” (30 × 30 cm) 12” × 36” (30 × 90 cm) Weight 8 oz.
White Balance and Color Human beings can see millions of colors accurately even in changing lighting conditions. The perceived color of an object changes according to the color of the light striking it. Our brains automatically compensate when the color of the light changes, so that a red ball will look red to us in daylight, under fluorescent lights, or lit by a table lamp.
Your digital camera has a number of white balance presets, which can be found in the White Balance (WB) menu of your camera. In many cases, choosing one of these presets will give you a relatively good result. For the most precise result, however, you should use a digital white panel to set a custom white balance for your photo session.
Using the QuikBalance Tri-Fold Panel Perfect white balance Each of the panels is formulated to be spectrally neutral. This means that all light that is reflected from each panel is a true and accurate representation of the qualities of the light; nothing is added, distorted, or subtracted. Using your camera or post-production editing software, you can use the light reflected from the white side as a precise reference to determine the exact lighting conditions.
In-Camera Custom White Balance For In-Camera Custom White Balance, some cameras will require you to take a picture of the neutral white panel under the exact lighting conditions of your photo shoot. That image will serve as your reference. You should fill as much of the viewfinder as possible with the panel. Please refer to your camera’s instruction manual for details. Note: When taking the shot for the white balance reference, make sure all the settings (shutter speed, aperture, ISO, etc.
Using the QuikBalance Tri-Fold Panel Post-Processing WB (RAW) You will need to shoot an image with the neutral white panel somewhere in the photo for each lighting situation you encounter. The white panel does not need to take up most of the viewfinder as it did for in-camera white balance, since you will merely be sampling this small area as a reference. To do this, simply take a picture of the panel and surroundings in the same lighting environment as your photo.
absolute black point. You can use editing software such as Adobe Photoshop together with your reference image to color correct the image using the Levels function.
Using the QuikBalance Tri-Fold Panel Metering using the QuikBalance Tri-Fold Panel for perfect exposure Your camera’s light meter can’t see in color. It only sees reflected light in shades of gray. Of the entire range of reflected light that your camera meter sees, 18% gray is the middle, hence the term “middle gray”. All built-in camera light meters work this way.
Using the QuikBalance Tri-Fold Panel Using the QuickBalance Tri-Fold Panel for exposure and white balance Using the QuickBalance Tri-Fold Panel as a reflector 11
One-Year Limited Warranty Impact provides a limited warranty to the original purchaser that this product is free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal consumer use for a period of one (1) year from the original purchase date or thirty (30) days after replacement, whichever occurs later. Impact’s responsibility with respect to this limited warranty shall be limited solely to repair or replacement, at Impact’s discretion, of any product that fails during normal consumer use.
