Topic: Zebras
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Old January 7th, 2009, 10:25 PM   #9
Andrew Stone
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It is in the manual but it shouldn't be thought of as error but "latitude". If you are trying to bang out the fleshtones at 70IRE you don't want the zebras to disappear as you move the iris and flash by the 70 point in the zebras with only +/-1 degree of latitude on the zebra setting. Otherwise you would be chasing the zebras like a mad fool making huge mistakes in your shooting as you obsess over hitting the zebra point. All not good.

The manual could do a lot better at explaining things so we don't have to meditate over their shorthand.
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