A luminance meter can be used in lighting engineering to measure the brightness and color temperature of light sources, allowing for better design and adjustment of lighting schemes. Manufacturers of light sources and emitters can use photometers to verify the performance of their products, ensuring that the brightness and colors meet requirements. In film and television production, photometers ca...
When choosing the instrument to purchase or use for the application, it is very important to understand the types of instruments available for measuring color. A colorimeter or spectrophotometer can be used to measure any test substance that is itself colored or can be reacted to produce a color. Both colorimeter and spectrophotometer provide data obtained over the same range of visible wavele...