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- Page 1 Illuminati Wireless Light and Color Meter Model IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41...
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Page 2: What's In The Box
About the IM100 The Illuminati IM100 is the world’s first Bluetooth-enabled wireless light and color meter. Use it with your smartphone to get light and color readings for your digital still and/or video camera. The meter measures the correct exposure and color from continuous light sources including LEDs, HMI, the sun, and tungsten, along with strobe. -
Page 3: Quick Start
Quick Start The IM100 QuickStart guide is show below for your reference. Detailed instructions can be found further in this document. Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 3... -
Page 4: Meter Design
IM100 Mechanical Features The IM100 has many thoughtfully-designed physical features to help you with your image-making tasks. Meter Design On the meter itself are several important features including the power button, features that help you mount or hold the meter, useful dome position settings, and a jack for synching strobes. The illustration below shows these. -
Page 5: Getting Started
Getting Started Install the Batteries The Illuminati App is available to download to your smartphone for free from the Google Play Open the case. The case is held closed by two store. rare-earth magnets. Insert your fingernails into the detents on either side of ¼-20 threaded... - Page 6 Connect Your IM100 Power the Meter On Turn on the IM100 using the power button on the corner of the meter. The meter’s LEDs will blink blue when the meter is looking for a connection, but not connected to your phone.
- Page 7 Example of a connection to more than one Illuminati Meter. Devices screen showing connection to one meter. If you connect more than one Illuminati meter, the app will find them and connect. Simply power on the Illuminati meters and use the Devices screen to connect.
- Page 8 “Monitor ambient”. When selected, the meter’s LEDs will blink yellow-green every time the meter returns a reading. New readings appear P a g e IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 Illuminati Instrument Corp.
- Page 9 Tile Names The name of your meter (see later section on renaming your meter) will be displayed automatically at the top of the tile. Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 9...
- Page 10 To set up an alarm condition, go to the Tiles Screen and click and then select as the type of tile on the next screen. Settings screen The Alarm Setting Screen 10 | P a g e IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 Illuminati Instrument Corp.
- Page 11 The final selection is the LED flashing color/ pattern for the meter to display when the alarm condition is met. Alarm Tile Showing Alarm Condition LED Patterns for Alarms Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 1 1...
- Page 12 Meter Placement Place the Illuminati Meter as close as possible to the subject of the image, in your most critical exposure area. Read the color temperature for your practicals up close to reduce any color contamination from other light sources. This will help you better determine what filter might be necessary for any correction.
- Page 13 The meter will also range on ISO or Aperture if you press and hold one of them until they turn red. Try a few different settings to get familiar with the interface. Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 1 3...
- Page 14 Flash Exposure Here is what the displays look like when you set the aperture and ISO exposure parameters to The IM100 and App support flash exposure range: metering either in cord or cordless mode. In cordless mode, a special sensor and circuit in the meter sense when the flash begins to fire and tracks the flash power.
- Page 15 ISO. This is helpful in situations where you have a specific aperture that must be attained, and the ISO can be determined from the total amount of flash power. Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 1 5...
- Page 16 Corded Flash Metering The Illuminati Meter will accept a cord with a plug like that shown in the image below. Cable tip for flash metering The receptacle on the meter is for a 3.5 mm mono miniphone sync male plug. A 3.5mm audio cable is not suitable, even though it physically will fit into the 3.5mm receptacle.
- Page 17 The meter will also range on ISO or Aperture if you press and hold one of them until they turn Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 1 7...
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Page 18: Color Temperature
2. The effect of adding color correcting filter The COLOR tab: the color temperature of your gels to your light source. light source in an easy-to-read form 18 | P a g e IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 Illuminati Instrument Corp. - Page 19 3. The color temperature of other Illuminati There are over 400 filters from the libraries of Meters connected to your phone – also quite Lee, Rosco, and Profoto. valuable in matching light sources. Set Filtered Light Type The x-axis displays the color temperature (the...
- Page 20 Show other meters shows you the color Show Other Meters coordinates of other Illuminati Meters If more than one Illuminati Meter is connected connected to your smartphone. In this example to your phone, you can see the color there are three meters connected, 100119 temperatures of both displayed on your screen.
- Page 21 - which these are). But knowing which filter to apply to which light COLOR tab showing color temperature source can raise questions. The Illuminati app and green/magenta shift measurements will show you the effect of using gels to correct for ambient and strobe lighting one of the lights to match the other.
- Page 22 The sun a bit large to be using filter gels on (but not in every case!). 22 | P a g e IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 Illuminati Instrument Corp.
- Page 23 Scientific Mode The Illuminati Meter app will also display useful color information and light intensity, and will also plot the light source being measured in CHROMATICITY Tab In the CHROMATICITY tab you will see a traditional CIE x,y chromaticity diagram with the light source plotted in x,y space.
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Page 24: Device Settings
The Device Settings screen shows you the meter’s bonding state and firmware version. This screen can change its appearance depending on the firmware version installed on 24 | P a g e IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 Illuminati Instrument Corp. - Page 25 Open the Android Settings app and look for connected devices. And then come the buttons which will BOND Find Illuminati Meter in the list. Click on the your meter and phone, UPDATE firmware, and “gear” icon and select “FORGET”.
- Page 26 When the firmware update is complete, the meter will power down. Restart the meter and it will reconnect to your phone. 26 | P a g e IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 Illuminati Instrument Corp.
- Page 27 Inactivity Timeout If the meter is inactive for a period of time, it will automatically power down. The time can be Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 2 7...
- Page 28 This setting is not available for earlier versions of the firmware. Scroll down a bit to see these settings 28 | P a g e IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 Illuminati Instrument Corp.
- Page 29 Power is turning off. You can turn the power off by White Fades out pressing the power button for about 1.5 seconds. Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 2 9...
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Page 30: Troubleshooting Guide
Meter will not connect. b. Go to your smartphone Settings, Connected Devices, Bluetooth. Find the Illuminati Meter entry and Forget it. 3. From the settings -> Bluetooth section, turn off Bluetooth. The reason for doing this is to reset the Bluetooth “stack”. Give it 10 or 15 seconds and turn Bluetooth back on. -
Page 31: Specifications
1.75 oz (49 g) without batteries Weight 2.5 oz (73 g) with batteries Illuminati Instrument Corp. 2118 Walsh Avenue Suite 220 Santa Clara, CA 95050 Illuminati Instrument Corp. IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 P a g e | 3 1... -
Page 32: Regulatory Agency Statements
(2) l'utilisateur de l'appareil doit accepter tout brouillage radioélectrique subi, même si le brouillage est susceptible d'en compromettre le fonctionnement. Other Notifications This product is Bluetooth registered. 32 | P a g e IM100 User Manual – Android, v1.41 Illuminati Instrument Corp.
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