How are you setting exposure?

[Tim Sutherland]

I was wondering how most of you guys are setting your exposure on the lens for shooting? Are you going off a calibrated monitor, or using a light meter, or what. Also, if you use a light meter, do you set it to the ISO you shoot at/want to be at or to 320 since that's what the camera is.

I'm asking because I had long thought, which was confirmed by a post in the recon side that while the ISO is technically metadata, it can become somewhat more important because it changes how you do a physical action of setting your iris on the lens.

Tim

[Rocco Schult]

As of build 15 your reference is ISO 320, no matter what you set the camera to, because thats the current sensitivity the camera is proven to be.
Consider it as a certain film type. This is not changing, no matter how you expose it.
With build 16 however this might change.
Also see HERE. (http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?p=229230#post229230)

[donatello b]

using recently calibrated incident & spot light meters ...
currently setting at 320 for daylight ...
250 tungsten ... sometimes i do check it against Red historgram or Red IRE meter and/or the RGB stop light then may open up or close down up to 1/3 stop depending on scene ...

[Phil Bates]

I am using the Red 5" LCD, with luma histogram and stoplights. I am very comfortable judging clipped highlights this way even though the camera is more conservative about clipping. I am still new to the Red so when in doubt I still bracket.

Phil
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