I'm investigating the possibility of colour managing high dynamic range image inputs for visual effects. The work is based on the paper "Characterization for HDR Imaging". What I am looking for is a system to read IT8.7/1 target patchs and output CIE XYZ values for further calculation. There will be two targets on a lightbox with considerable dynamic range between them. As far as I can see Argyll is suitable for this but I'm not sure which consumer probes are suitable. The colorimeters seem to handle more dynamic range than the spectrometers. Do I require an emissive chart reading probe or would a display probe be suitable? Is it possible to calculate absolute luminance? The paper can be found here, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.151.6187 Cheers, Jeremy