HD100 Lightmeter
 

Have been trying to find som info regarding the build-in light meter.
JCV manual and JVC PRO homepage.

Does the lightmeter measure center spot or average acros the frame or ..??

Wouldt be nice to know especially when the Zebra starts running...

Thanks in advance.

Erik

lightmeter in hd100?
 

Hmm... I've never heard of the built-in light meter on the HD100. Maybe i skimmed over that part in the manual?

:: efrain ::

HD100 lightmeter
 

Well, lets call it something else then.
If you put the camera to full auto it figures out the F stops right. My question was where the camera measures the amount of light ? When I go manual and try to light my shoot the best I can, I would just like to know where the measure point is ?
Ok, better like this ?

regards
Erik

Erik is referring to auto-iris.

I don't really have a definitive answer to your question Erik because I've never used auto iris. I always manually set my exposure, sometimes based on the programmable zebra bars.

However, I would imagine that the auto-iris is not centre-weighted, but instead responds to average exposure over the whole frame.

ohhhh...
 

oh right. Auto-Iris function. sorry. i never use that.

i'm just a newbie, but i agree with Mr. Dashwood. It seems like it's overall exposure in the frame and not based on the center.

:: efrain ::

Thank you Tim.

Fast and to the point as always.

One more for you Tim. Do you use 60-70% or 70-80% as standard setup for Zebra. Or..?

Regards

Erik

Actually I use "OVER 100%" and then I know exactly which bits will clipped. This helps me expose properly to squeeze as much dynamic range out as possible.

Well I am just afraid that my whites will be blown out. Have to do some testing on that one.

Thanks Tim

Regards

Erik

No matter what you set your Zebras at you will eventually teach your eye to know when something will blow out beyond saving. If you use 80% and a good portion of your sky has zebras you probably will have ok highlights but you won't have as much in the dark areas of the frame. At 100% you can stretch more out of your image but you will need to be much more critical with your eye on where the zebras show up.

It's just a matter of getting use to a setting and sticking with it so that you start to pick up on the areas without even thinking about it.

Used correctly it is VERY accurate.

Well I guess in essence the zebra is the lightmeter in video cameras as it measures the exposure on highlights in the frame. I would say that the same circuitry that measures and displays zebra also controls the auto iris.

You can adjust in the menu the exposure for auto iris. It's the menu named:
CAMERA OPERATION - and you have to adjust AE LEVEL from -3 ...o..0...+3 value.

HD100 auto iris and AE +/- levels
 

okay, now i'm a little confused. in traditional photography, i've used the AE levels, but I'm a little unclear as to how the AE -/+ levels work on the HD100....

Does the AE-/+ levels work in conjunction with the Auto Iris function on the HD100?

Yes, you are just shifting the bias of the Auto Exposure system. It is the same as "exposure compensation" (in EV) in SLR photography.

cool.
 

oh okay cool. that makes sense. so whatever the auto iris adjusts to, the AE adds or takes away a little, right?

:: efrain