Light Meter Canon

Reflective light meter the in built meter found inside dslr cameras measures light reflecting off a subject and then calculates an appropriate shutter speed and aperture size for the correct exposure.

Light meter canon. The light meter is a readout that shows whether these values are going to result in a photo that is properly exposed that is a photo that is neither too light or too dark. Generally it will be seen as a tool to check exposure. In the image above you can see that the meter shows you need an aperture value of f 16 shutter speed of 1 125th of a second and iso 100 in order to get a properly exposed scene. The small triangle hovering over the zero in the light meter shows that the exposure is correct and when the shutter button is pressed the picture will look fine.

You can choose how the canon eos 6d meters a scene to determine the exposure. Your camera s metering device examines the scene and determines which shutter speed and f stop combination will yield a properly exposed image. This is the default mode for your camera. This is how that looks.

Light meter holdpeak 881e digital illuminanc light meter with 0 01 300 000 lux 0 01 30 000 fc measuring ranges and 270 rotatable detector for led lights and plants lumen meter 4 3 out of 5 stars 110. This is known as ttl through the lens metering. Your eos 6d has the following metering modes. Handheld light meter for incident light metering light falling on the subject.

For the light meter to do its job it makes one huge assumption. In the example i will use a 2 to 2 indication. Chris bray discusses the exposure triangle in this tutorial an. 18 grey is also called middle grey since as you can see above it looks to be about halfway between black and white.

Most cameras can change the range of the light meter from 3 to 3. It provides a measurement of the exposure tells users exactly what shutter speed aperture combination to use based on the 18 gray standard and can even provide detailed charts and graphs on the quality and color of the lights one is using. That when you average the total brightness of a scene it should be around 18 grey. When the white cursor is at zero this means according to camera s internal.