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June 6th, 2005, 12:37 AM
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Old Boot
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Exposure Scale-Indicator? What's the Value of it?
. .. back again . .
1/- How do you use it? What benefits does it give you? 2/- How is this better/worse than zebra bars? Exposure gives a general value to ALL the frame - ZBs give you area-specific representations, yes I know, soooo... how do you use this Scale? TIA, Grazie |
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June 6th, 2005, 01:00 AM
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Regular Crew
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Well, it looks nice :-), anyway I trust to zebra stripes.
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June 6th, 2005, 09:44 AM
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The exposure index in the viewfinder --the line with the floating triangular indicator-- can be very useful. In brief, it's the camera's back-seat driver. The position of the triangle indicates the camera's current exposure values as compared with the exposure that it would normally set under a programmatic mode (Tv, Av, P, green box). So if you know you wanted to, say, manually underexpose a scene by a stop (compared to the camera's default exposure) you can continuously see whether or not you're dong that.
Zebra bars only show areas of the image that have reached or exceeded the zebra's luminance settings. That is, zebras only warn of blow-outs. That's a very different indication than that of the exposure index.
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June 7th, 2005, 07:32 AM
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Obstreperous Rex
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Gee whiz, Ken. You're so much better than the operator's manual!
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June 7th, 2005, 09:38 AM
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Old Boot
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Oh yes Chris, Ken is - and he's ours! However, he DOES need the right question too y'know!
KEN ! THANK YOU! ! ! ! Grazie |
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