Most of the time eyeballing the histogram to make sure it's not climbing the
walls on either end is good enough, even with the *ist-D.
In difficult metering situations I'll pull out a hand-held incident meter &
include a old Macbeth ColorChecker in the first frame of the lighting setup.
Change the lighting setup = meter again & another frame with the color checker.
On 3/9/2020 11:39:55, Larry Colen wrote:
I’m curious how people go about setting and checking exposure. My early
pentax DSLRs were really bad at metering, so I just got in the habit of
always checking the histogram. Blownout highlights really annoy me. I also
ran into an interesting metering issue with flowers and other saturated
colors, in that the metering isn’t color sensitive so that I’d blow out one
or two of the channels (usually red) while everything else had plenty of
lattitude.
I have gotten to the point that if I’m not shooting action and running up
against the K-1s miserable buffering, I’ll just bracket nominal and under by
a couple of stops for safety, and not having to worry about it. Most of the
time the dynamic range on the later sensors is so good, that running a bit
under on the raw images is no problem at all.
How do other people deal with this?
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