Kickass New Way To Expose!

[Rick Darge]

For those of you that haven't jumped to B16 yet, there is a great new way to expose your image .. Basically, there now is a vertical gradient bar on the right hand side of your image that shows 11 small squares, each a different shade of gray. The goal is to make all 11 of these squares pop out, for the highest dynamic range. If your image is too dark, the lower shades will just blend together, knocking your total number of squares below 11. If you are too hot, the upper squares will blend the same, knocking down your overall dymanic range.

Whoever thought of this method is a genius.

This feature is seriously badass & makes it really feel like getting a whole new camera

:gun: :tongue: :gun:

[jbeale]

Interesting- what are the squares actually showing? Is this basically a 11-segment luma histogram of the image?

[Rick Darge]

That's what it appears to be. It looks like a litmus strip.

I just played around with it some more. I don't think lighting up all 11 panels is the end goal. There seems to be wiggle room in there.

Jim, can you elaborate on exactly what's going on with this feature? I'm just learning as I'm going and want to hear it from the horse's mouth before I start spewing ignorant nonsense ...

[Chris Gearhart]

Sounds like a histogram for dummies. :biggrin:

[Rick Darge]

I can't see how anyone can miss exposure now..

We have the litmus strip, the newly improved RGB histogram, the stoplights, and false color. I love having all these gauges.

[Frank Weeks]

Sounds like a histogram for dummies. :biggrin:

Perfect. I'll be able to figure it out.:blink:

[Jarred Land]

that strip is just to make sure you see the high and low ranges in your viewing enviroment and adjust your monitor brightness accordingly.... almost like purge bars. they dont actually change values, or do any of the magical stuff you are talking about....

[Mike Prevette]

Sounds like a great "Peep sight" to make sure your viewing angle is right on the LCD.

[Rick Darge]

that strip is just to make sure you see the high and low ranges in your viewing enviroment and adjust your monitor brightness accordingly.... almost like purge bars. they dont actually change values, or do any of the magical stuff you are talking about....

After a few hours, I finally realized that..

:bleh: :watsup:

I guess I was a little TOO excited then..

[Cail Young]

almost like purge bars.

Pluge bars.

Unless we're talking about throwing some things out permanently? Build 15, for example? :)

[Lewis-M Soucy]

This must be only to adjust the monitor, like colorbars... Nothing to do with exposure I think... Jarred? (you might have said that differently, but my decoder is out today...)

[Bing Bailey]

jared maybe it would be a cool feature if it did work like that and do what he thought it did :)

[Andrew M.]

And how you will actually do it if camera do not know what you will be throwing in to it.
Putting checker board somewhere in the view is the answer but then you can't put it there all the time.
Synthesising such bar from the image coming in as a simple histogram representation is possible though.

[Lewis-M Soucy]

...also called waveform (oscilloscope)... ;)

Then we're back to square one! :)

But as they said that the image in the monitor is pretty much accurate to what you actually record, then it's a good feature to calibrate your monitor, thus getting the result as precise as possible... I guess...