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February 27th, 2006, 12:16 PM | #1 |
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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 |
February 27th, 2006, 01:08 PM | #2 |
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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?
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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 |
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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.
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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 :: |
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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 |
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Well I am just afraid that my whites will be blown out. Have to do some testing on that one.
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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.
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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.
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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? |
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cool.
oh okay cool. that makes sense. so whatever the auto iris adjusts to, the AE adds or takes away a little, right?
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