Fujifilm and SpectraCal team up for improved monitor correction

At the end of August, Fujifilm and SpectraCal announced a strategic initiative to make monitor correction more accurate and available to a much wider audience.

In order to expand the use of these solutions in the video production and post-production industries, engineers from both companies have worked together to bring together the IS-mini image processor (from Fujifilm) and CalMAN Studio software (from SpectraCal).

The software included with IS-mini comes with a new level of automation, so that users do not need to have extensive technical knowledge to achieve correct calibration. In addition, this collaboration means that any type of probe that is supported by CalMAN can operate with IS-mini, along with more detailed reporting functionality.

CalMAN Studio has a new version that allows direct control of the IS-mini to create a “color cube” (generally known as a 3D LUT) to correct video signals. This software measures numerous points in a color space and creates a 3D LUT that brings the monitor as close as possible to the specified standard; it then checks the applied result and provides a full report on the accuracy of the monitor. The report can be printed or managed in a monitor performance database.

Although the IS-mini was originally created as one piece of a larger color management solution, working with SpectraCal helps increase its potential and provides colorists and other professionals with the facilities to ensure that their monitors display the colors specified in industry standards.

IS-mini support is available as a part of CalMAN Studio 5.2. You can download a trial version from here.

If you are interested in learning more about calibration and color management for digital video, next December there will be a course dedicated to it. Here you have all the information about it.