Anyone use a color meter and is it worth the cost

[meangene]

I shoot in mixed lighting and it's hard to figure out the correct white balance sometimes. I don't want to shoot a grey card and then post process images in Photoshop. How many people out there use a color meter and what are your thoughts on it.

[BrianAZ]

If you shoot in mixed lighting, then an a color meter won't help you. What you need to do is gel one of the light sources to match the color temp of the other.

[SkipD]

If you shoot in mixed lighting, then an a color meter won't help you. What you need to do is gel one of the light sources to match the color temp of the other.The color meter COULD help match colors of the sources when gelling the sources, though.

A color meter would be useless to a lot of folks if it could not read the color of flash sourced light.