Scituate Lighthouse! I know it well. Grew up in the town. The Driftway has changed alot over the recent years but the lighthouse and the area around it hasn't
There is no need to measure with any meter when the sky is cloudless -- sunny 16 is working great, as you have proven this in your video ;-) However, the meter comes handy in tricky ligh situations.
Joe assumes you do not need to calibrate different lenses, only your sensor (ISO) with the 758dr light meter. I have 4 Nikon primes. Two are roughly the same with good light transmission. The other two over 1.7 F-stop worse: 2 profiles. Check DXOmark.com if your lenses were measured and look for T-stop.
Well, Its easier to get it right whitout a light meter. Just adds another pointless battery driven gizmo. Same goes for cable releases whitout intervalometer. Use the histogram/timer and mirror lockup. The guys in this video have really tiny cards I guess.
Why arent either of you using an electronic Cable Release? I would think it would totally defeat the use of a tripod by laying your hand on top of your camera and firing the release button. And with that much wind, no weight on your Carbon Fiber tripod seems like a problem also. Just a few thoughts
I guess it is what Joe is good at and he has taken the time to upload the tutorials. he uses a meter on all his photography find these tutorials very useful keep up the good work Joe
They are trying to sell you a Seconic meter thats all Simon. You can get a good exposed image with just your build in meter and judging the histogram after the shot. If exposure is a bit of, correct it and just take a second photo. Another exposure takes only a few seconds, its not the end of the world. If the dynamic range of the scene is greater than your camera can capture...no external meter is going to save your day. Than you need to bracket (more than one exposure with different values) and blend them later. For medium format film camera's a external meter is usefull...film is expensive.
With an external meter you can meter for the shadows and the highlights independently and calculate your exposure accordingly (like they're doing in the video) rather than have the camera's built in meter measure the entire scene for you and take a guess based on the entire frame. It's not critical to have but allows you to get more accurate exposures, however considering the price of the $650 meter they're plugging here, you could do about as well if you learn how to use your in-camera histogram and watch your shadows and highlights there. What they're doing is still cool though, it's a traditional landscape photography process, you hear them speaking of 'Zone's like the Zone metering system like was pioneered by Ansel Adams in the 30's and 40's. True Landscape photography nerds. :)
Maxwell Starr Hi Maxwell.You could do exactly the same with a build in camera spotmeter. Maybe most cameraspotmeters are limited to measure only 3 - 5 % of the whole scene. But how often do you really need metering of something smaller than that to get an exact exposure in a landscape. Even if you could get a better metering with an expensive external spotmeter.. your camera has a dynamic range limit and a external spotmeter can not help you there. You could buy an expensive Ferrari to get from A to B....but you also get there with a Fiat Panda.
+Toby Barker he is saying that through correct exposure u will get tons of data in your raw file. and yes, a raw file needs to be processed; so, looks like the joke is on you
Your comments on travel photography...so true about optimizing what you get. I think Forest Gump said it best.
Thanks both Joe and Lee...this was a truly educational piece that definitely brought fresh ideas and processing concepts to my workflow. Great job!
Scituate Lighthouse! I know it well. Grew up in the town. The Driftway has changed alot over the recent years but the lighthouse and the area around it hasn't
Making those last comments, this was a very informative video and I appreciate the time and info
There is no need to measure with any meter when the sky is cloudless -- sunny 16 is working great, as you have proven this in your video ;-)
However, the meter comes handy in tricky ligh situations.
to make tute complete you are welcome to come to Siberia. Shooting at - 51 C/59.8F is unforgettable...
Joe assumes you do not need to calibrate different lenses, only your sensor (ISO) with the 758dr light meter.
I have 4 Nikon primes. Two are roughly the same with good light transmission. The other two over 1.7 F-stop worse: 2 profiles.
Check DXOmark.com if your lenses were measured and look for T-stop.
Well, Its easier to get it right whitout a light meter. Just adds another pointless battery driven gizmo. Same goes for cable releases whitout intervalometer. Use the histogram/timer and mirror lockup. The guys in this video have really tiny cards I guess.
easy to get right with the sony a99 with its live scene view
What lens was Lee using join the XT-1?
I'm getting a teleshopping vibe from this..
You did not tell us what is les's lens.?
Why arent either of you using an electronic Cable Release? I would think it would totally defeat the use of a tripod by laying your hand on top of your camera and firing the release button.
And with that much wind, no weight on your Carbon Fiber tripod seems like a problem also.
Just a few thoughts
You can set it on a 2 second timer.
I got the feeling that 50% of your videos are about light meters
I guess it is what Joe is good at and he has taken the time to upload the tutorials.
he uses a meter on all his photography find these tutorials very useful keep up the good work Joe
Oh and I thought its 80%
dgukov you might be right :)
Why use an external meter? Don't all of these cameras have good meters built in?
They are trying to sell you a Seconic meter thats all Simon. You can get a good exposed image with just your build in meter and judging the histogram after the shot. If exposure is a bit of, correct it and just take a second photo. Another exposure takes only a few seconds, its not the end of the world. If the dynamic range of the scene is greater than your camera can capture...no external meter is going to save your day. Than you need to bracket (more than one exposure with different values) and blend them later. For medium format film camera's a external meter is usefull...film is expensive.
With an external meter you can meter for the shadows and the highlights independently and calculate your exposure accordingly (like they're doing in the video) rather than have the camera's built in meter measure the entire scene for you and take a guess based on the entire frame.
It's not critical to have but allows you to get more accurate exposures, however considering the price of the $650 meter they're plugging here, you could do about as well if you learn how to use your in-camera histogram and watch your shadows and highlights there.
What they're doing is still cool though, it's a traditional landscape photography process, you hear them speaking of 'Zone's like the Zone metering system like was pioneered by Ansel Adams in the 30's and 40's. True Landscape photography nerds. :)
Maxwell Starr Hi Maxwell.You could do exactly the same with a build in camera spotmeter. Maybe most cameraspotmeters are limited to measure only 3 - 5 % of the whole scene. But how often do you really need metering of something smaller than that to get an exact exposure in a landscape. Even if you could get a better metering with an expensive external spotmeter.. your camera has a dynamic range limit and a external spotmeter can not help you there. You could buy an expensive Ferrari to get from A to B....but you also get there with a Fiat Panda.
Maxwell Starr
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I am not sure why are they keep talking and talking instead of keep shooting and shooting. Light is shifting as they speak :)))
Who the heck uses light meters when you have a high quality camera which does it for you??
So you spend all that cash on a meter to just take one image, then still spend 20 minutes tweaking in PS? Save your cash and bracket!
+Toby Barker he is saying that through correct exposure u will get tons of data in your raw file. and yes, a raw file needs to be processed; so, looks like the joke is on you
oh yeah you're right