@21faiza It depends on your camera! Every camera that has adjustable frame rates will have a display to tell you what you're shooting, and if it doesn't, it's probably 30 FPS.
all right that's something i didn't know .. have to be close enough to walk up to take a reading. i thought one could read for the distance by getting a measurement of similar lighting (sun, shade).
what are the drawbacks of attaching a spot meter to a meter?
@tinbiscuite Yeah, you have to be right there, in the duck or the actress' face getting the reading. Even if you measure yourself in full sun, the reading for a duck in a pond is going to be way different because of, for example, all of the reflectance off the water the duck is in,if the duck is in the water. Some of the higher end sekonics have spot meters in them, but you have to take an extra step and make sure you're metering something that you want to expose properly, i.e. something grey
i'm testing out the sekonic l-385 for birding. so far it's a bust 4 water birds and thru a 20x scope .. digiscoping washes out water ;so what. but the biggest problem is that the birds, (ducks) are very far away and the image is usually out of focusand not exposed well. i'm using incident mode lumishere extended and for birds not too far about 100-200 feet away on land it's fairly good. what i want to know is should i use exposure compensation? i've tried but for the water birds no good. irule?
@tinbiscuite I'm struggling a little bit to understand exactly what you're doing but incident mode only works if you can walk right up to the thing you want to shoot, so that you can hold the meter exactly... there, which I imagine would be difficult if you're shooting ducks? If you need to get an exposure for something off in the distance, you need to use a meter with spot metering capabilities, although those have drawbacks as well.
i have, i guess the model of sekonic before yours. i hope you can let me know how to use it instead of the reflective meter in my dslr, with a 400mm lens. thank you.
how did u figure out that ur using 24 FPS? pls reply soon Sir...thanks n regards..
21faiza 3 days ago
@21faiza It depends on your camera! Every camera that has adjustable frame rates will have a display to tell you what you're shooting, and if it doesn't, it's probably 30 FPS.
thesubstream 2 days ago
how to figure out the ISO?
21faiza 3 days ago
all right that's something i didn't know .. have to be close enough to walk up to take a reading. i thought one could read for the distance by getting a measurement of similar lighting (sun, shade).
what are the drawbacks of attaching a spot meter to a meter?
thank you.
tinbiscuite 4 months ago
@tinbiscuite Yeah, you have to be right there, in the duck or the actress' face getting the reading. Even if you measure yourself in full sun, the reading for a duck in a pond is going to be way different because of, for example, all of the reflectance off the water the duck is in,if the duck is in the water. Some of the higher end sekonics have spot meters in them, but you have to take an extra step and make sure you're metering something that you want to expose properly, i.e. something grey
PronunciationManual 4 months ago
i'm testing out the sekonic l-385 for birding. so far it's a bust 4 water birds and thru a 20x scope .. digiscoping washes out water ;so what. but the biggest problem is that the birds, (ducks) are very far away and the image is usually out of focusand not exposed well. i'm using incident mode lumishere extended and for birds not too far about 100-200 feet away on land it's fairly good. what i want to know is should i use exposure compensation? i've tried but for the water birds no good. irule?
tinbiscuite 4 months ago
@tinbiscuite I'm struggling a little bit to understand exactly what you're doing but incident mode only works if you can walk right up to the thing you want to shoot, so that you can hold the meter exactly... there, which I imagine would be difficult if you're shooting ducks? If you need to get an exposure for something off in the distance, you need to use a meter with spot metering capabilities, although those have drawbacks as well.
thesubstream 4 months ago
i have, i guess the model of sekonic before yours. i hope you can let me know how to use it instead of the reflective meter in my dslr, with a 400mm lens. thank you.
tinbiscuite 4 months ago
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PronunciationManual 4 months ago
Great job, it helped a lot. :)
Ken
KBDProductionsTV 11 months ago
What if your not using film, but digital on say a Sony ax2000 what would you set the ASA at?
Morpph 1 year ago
I have the exact same light meter but am trying to work out the values for shooting 35mm film. What do I do in that situation?
111Socrates777 1 year ago
@111Socrates777 Figure out the ASA/ISO of the film and input that, take a measurement and see what aperture your shutter speed is pointing at.
thesubstream 1 year ago