#Rawdigger fine tune exposure meter manual#
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#Rawdigger fine tune exposure meter series#

Update: 1.4.0.0's Highlight-weighted meter is useless for Live View shooting for me (with exposure preview on and using any auto mode such as Auto ISO or Auto Shutter). IMO, it's the most versatile metering mode, allowing me to shoot everything from sunset landscapes to indoor portraits while providing a good exposure base. Note that currently if the brightest areas of an image are anywhere near the central 1/3 of the frame, Center-weighted metering still gives the lowest exposure and best protects the highlights. But we need to keep the current version since it's more usable for everyday shooting without maxing out the exposure comp +3 stops to brighten up the exposure when needed. My preference for Highlight-weighted metering would be to have a second variant of it based on the histogram, not allowing overexposure except for specular highlights. At least now after FW 1.4.0.0, Highlight-weighted is exposing consistently and giving a lower exposure than Multifield – before this update, it was exposing exactly the same as Multifield. It's not a metering mode based off the histogram, it's an evaluative mode similar to Multi-field. Highlight-weighted metering even in the SL2-S never fully protected the highlights – it can be fooled by a spike on the histogram far to the right caused by a bright area concentrated on an edge of the frame. I have no interest in the apps other features.Īn example of highlight weighted metering not protecting highlights. I could really use that GPS feature on the Leica Fotos app. Hopefully Leica squashed all or most of the usability bugs and I can concentrate on taking images. I'll also be testing it some more, but I'm not going to spend too much time on it. “Easy” films can be good starters though.In the 1.3.0.0 firmware the highlight weighted metering in rangefinder mode often caused strong overexposure to the point of being around 3EV brighter than an average metered exposure.įirmware 1.4.0.0 is a good step in the right direction for all the other bugs, but Highlight Weighted metering isn't something I can use in its current form. You can learn more with a “difficult” film and see what you need to do in which case.

#Rawdigger fine tune exposure meter manual#

I think I’ll stick to manual exposure and ettr as outlined above.īest hint I can give: Try it out with a film that has decent exposures as well as over- and underexposed images. I’ve also tried using the same exposure for the complete film but found no benefit of doing so. This Gives me the limit how far to the right I can expose. I set my camera to UniWB In order to see where the non-linear part begins when I check exposure in live view. My Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 reports a linearity limit which is at 10’000, about 1/3 stop below clipping.

#Rawdigger fine tune exposure meter series#

I also took a bracketed series of just the backlight in order to see, how much I can overexpose without highlight clipping, and, decent colour rendering of bright areas.

exposure to +3 EV using 1/3 EV increments. I had tried it with bracketed shots taken from std. I found that DPL is fairly tolerant when negative film is camera scanned.

What if that frame is under exposed? How can we know that that is the best reference to use for the exposure of all frames in the role? It seems to me like coming up with a formula based on the light coming through the unexposed leader of the film could be the most reliable method in establishing a baseline for the proper “mean exposure level” of the roll. So it seems that people are ultimately measuring their entire role’s exposure level using the histogram of the first frame. I have also read on many forms that aperture priority mode should not be used, and that a single setting should be used for an entire film role. Rather they give specific camera settings and fail to factor in that everyone’s light source will ultimately put out variable brightnesses that will affect the shutter speed for each individual setup. I’ve read several articles about setting the exposure for DSLR scanning, but surprisingly none of them seem to provide an accurate formula. Has anyone had success using this method? Hi all, I have been experimenting with developing a best practices solution for setting the global exposure level of an entire roll of film based on spot metering the unexposed film leader (or what’s left of it).