Warning: $45 for a used color checker card beat the $300 I almost dropped on a calibrator
I was about to buy a $300 screen calibrator after my last batch of wedding photos printed with skin tones that looked green, but a guy at the local camera shop in Boise sold me a used color checker card for $45 instead. I shot the card once in the same light as the portraits, fixed the white balance in my editor, and the reprint at Costco came back looking normal for the first time in weeks. Is a full calibrator actually worth the money if I mostly print at the drugstore, or am I fine just checking the card each time the light changes?