ExpoDisc 2.0 82 mm Professional Balance Filter - White, EXPOD2-82

If you want to get your colours right in camera this is a great product. Set you white balance in 45 secs, save time in editing. Order to suit your maximum lense size, I got 82mm and it will do all sizes up to that by hand holding in front of the lens.

Purchased two of these at different lens sizes. A bit sceptical at purchase but decided to take a punt after a little research. Found this solution to be really useful. White balance even under tricky lighting situations has proved to be spot on.Less time now taken on colour correction and balancing in post. And, no more embarrassingly having to ask talent to hold a white card near their face. I'd recommend this to a friend.

An absolute gem, brilliant little gizmo - basically an incident light collector, averaging the temperature of the light falling on your subject. I am not a pro, but often photograph flowers and bouquets that my wife wants to sell. Accurate colour rendition is essential for customers choice.So good so far, right?--DISCLAIMER--.. a photograph need not be perfectly colour balanced because the photographer may wish a certain effect or atmosphere. Colours are not displayed the same on different viewers eg iphone tv monitor, pc monitor ,galaxy phone etc. So others may not be seeing what you intended.However, using the Expodisc matches what I see in my brain's eye, camera and monitor perfectly.It is superior to my AWB Olympus EM10 mark2; here the AWB can often get it right, Expodisk - always.Using the Expodisc by placing it against the subject pointing facing towards the intended camera position is always spot on. I have used it just by pointing at the subject with a very high success rate.Which ever way, setting the white balance viewed through expodisc and making it the camera's custom WB takes 15secs.. easy peasy.Getting the WB right in camera there and then, saves loads of post production work.I have also take a WB jpeg image thro' Expodisc at the start of a photo shoot and as long as the lighting remains the same you can use this WB greyimage post production in Lightroom/Photoshop, to sycronise through the whole range of photos.Expodisc can also adjusts/correct camera exposure. In Manual Mode place Expodisc over the lens stand/sit at or near/next to subject position and point towards intended camera position. Adjust manual settings thro' Expodisk until perfect exposure is obtained; adjusting ISO - shutter - aperture to suit, until exposure meter reads 0.Take off Expodisc, return to camera position, keeping the manual settings unaltered, plus custom WB.. perrrfect picture.

Easy to carry and quick to use

I bought ExpoDisc partly by mistake and partly out of curiosity. I already had the cheaper JJC white balance tool, but was having problems with a point and shoot camera and bought ExpoDisc 2.0 to fix the problem. Turns out the problems were purely down to user error (me) but that's another story...Well, as I had both tools at hand, I decided to do a side by side test to see if there was any difference between both of these tools. I set the white balance using one tool (JJC) and then took a picture of my wall (which has various picture frames on it). I then repeated the procedure with the ExpoDisc.I then took both pictures into my RAW processing software (Capture NX-D, using a colour calibrated monitor). The white mattings on my frames look a little too warm for the ExpoDisc picture. The JJC tool makes the white mattings very nearly bang on (ever so slightly purple tint, but the expo disc also has an ever so slightly green tint). Reading off the presets, the ExpoDisc had set a white balance of 6099K, while the JJC tool set a white balance of 5747K. As the JJC whites appear to be very nearly bang on, the ExpoDisc appears to be too warm by about 350K.This result certainly surprised me because ExpoDisc is substantially more expensive and has a lot of hype behind it, specially on YouTube. I just expected that it was the gold standard for this sort of thing. Well, yes, it is good, but if you are after white whites, you will need to do post production on your picture to remove those extra 350K of warmth.These were my findings anyway. I hope this review helps you.

Great addition to my tools, very fast helpful pice of kit. Simple to use and very accurate, saves time and trouble getting a white balance with different lights.

There are cheap copies in the market, but I went for the quality and I am not regretting.Make sure to read the instruction, you have to take a test shot from your target object's location, not from where you want to take a photo from.

Fantastic really does help set white balance in any situation and saves so much time in post editing!

Very useful for professional photographers especially when shooting with LED lights or lights which effect the white balance and skin tone.Worth the money.

Mir ist ein maueller Weißabgleich wichtig, da ich so wenig wie möglich Zeit am Computer verbringen will! Das messen mit einer Graukarte klappte oft nicht, da bei der Landschaftsfotografie Morgens oder Abends das Licht nicht ausreichend ist (meine Fuji XT3 meldet immer "Unterbelichtet") Mit dem ExpoDisc 2.0 Professional hab ich dieses Problem nicht, er funktioniert bei jedem Licht! Der Weißabgleich ist auch bei schwierigen Lichtverhältnisse somit immer korrekt! klare Kaufempfehlung

Nicely made, details are well thought out, and instructions are very thoughtful and comprehensive. I don't need the instructions or theory behind the ExpoDisc's use given my photography knowledge, but it surely was appreciated when I read the brief manual that it was put together with care in this day and age of poorly translated generic instructions. The silicone case with tether points exceeded my expectations. I think that maybe a metal frame would be on my list of desires for the next ExpoDisc iteration.

Al principio un poco engañoso de usar, por que realmente funciona con luz incidente y no reflejada. Por lo que debes realizar el Balance enfocando la fuente de luz y no el lugar donde vas ha tomar la fotografía. Es decir que si tu personaje va a estar sobre un escenario no debes 'apuntar' a este, si no a la luz que ilumina al escenario. Puede parecerte raro, pero veras como el WB es el correcto y los colores salen ajustados

the Expo Disc, its a great tool for photographers and people into cinema quality filminggreat product, I recomend it