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Get a 1 degree spot meter with your digital camera
Jun 26, 2014 13:44:55 #
Best tip I found for today...
If you want to use your camera and get a 1 degree spot meter reading, put a 200 mm lens on the camer, or rack your zoom out to 200 or more.
The resultant reading will be approximately 1 degree. You may want to change the lens to another, but you will have achieved a 1 degree spot reading you can record and manually expose on the finish lens.
This courtesy of Joe Brady and Sekonic Webinars, which I have been watching regularly for two years or more.
If you want to use your camera and get a 1 degree spot meter reading, put a 200 mm lens on the camer, or rack your zoom out to 200 or more.
The resultant reading will be approximately 1 degree. You may want to change the lens to another, but you will have achieved a 1 degree spot reading you can record and manually expose on the finish lens.
This courtesy of Joe Brady and Sekonic Webinars, which I have been watching regularly for two years or more.
Jun 26, 2014 14:24:59 #
Kuzano wrote:
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Thanks for the info. I missed another one. I'm just an hour and 25 minutes late. :oops:
Jun 26, 2014 15:29:26 #
Kuzano wrote:
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I think there may be an error here.
Canon lists their EF 200 mm lenses with the following viewing angles: Horizontal at 10 degrees; Diagonal at 12 degrees; Vertical at 7 degrees. None of those numbers would qualify for a 1 degree spot metering. It is a nice idea, but you would need a much longer lens.
Check here for an angle of view calculator:http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/calc.htm
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Jun 26, 2014 16:02:58 #
Lightchime, you're missing the point. This is with spot metering. It's the size of the metering spot, not the overall angle of the lens that matters. The focal length for a 1 degree spot also changes with the camera body. Here's a partial listing.
http://www.spotmetering.com/1deg.htm
http://www.spotmetering.com/1deg.htm
Jun 26, 2014 16:53:57 #
OddJobber wrote:
Lightchime, you're missing the point. This is with spot metering. It's the size of the metering spot, not the overall angle of the lens that matters. The focal length for a 1 degree spot also changes with the camera body. Here's a partial listing.
http://www.spotmetering.com/1deg.htm
http://www.spotmetering.com/1deg.htm
Oddjobber is correct and I should have been more informative that this tip is based on setting your camera on SPOT METERING, and not metering the full angle of view of the lens. In fact, spot metering actually only covers about 1 degree of the AOV starting at about 120 focal length.
Thank you OddJobber. That's a great link and now in my archive of photo links on my favorites in Photography.
Jun 27, 2014 07:20:14 #
Jun 27, 2014 12:51:28 #
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or purchase a pentax or sekonic one degree spot meter, which is the best method.
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Jun 27, 2014 13:18:09 #
Jun 27, 2014 13:41:08 #
OddJobber wrote:
True, but note that that tip came from a Sekonic sponsored source.
I watch the Joe Brady, Mac-on-Campus, Youtube videos also. His tip, uses of equipment, are not limited to just Sektonic, or X-Rite alone. Of course his presentations mention these companies products since they are paying him for his time. In every video you can see that any good meter will work besides Sekonic, and any color pallet will do the same things. He also goes on about 18% gray cards, and white balance, is there enough difference to justify buying several different manufactures products, hardly.
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