Originally Posted by
r_a_feldman
The ColorChecker that Calibrite now sells is the real deal and has been since 2021. (The babelcolor.com site provides a corporate history listing the changes in ownership.) The current X-Rite site product listing for the ColorChecker says:
“ColorChecker® Classic
Out of Production
Upgrades to this product are now available through our global partner Calibrite. Visit calibrite.com to learn more.”
If you want a “real” MacBeth ColorChart, I guess you will have to buy a used copy, which may have suffered degradation due to years of use and possible incorrect storage.
Babelcolor.com comments on the changes X-Rite made in 2014 (8 years after acquiring Gretag-Macbeth in 2006) to the colors formulations by saying that “Regulatory and compliance reasons are invoked, so the changes were likely due to the toxicity of pigments used in previous charts [sic] incarnations and to stricter environmental laws in some jurisdictions.” I suspect that X-Rite needed to remove mercury/cadmium/lead pigments to meet then-new European Union standards (similar to RoHS for electronics). Whatever the reason, babelcolor.com notes that charts made before November 2014 have visible color differences to those made after November 2014.
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