Exposure Metering In Video: D7100

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Blue Bomber

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Just found a roundabout way to monitor exposure on the D7100's video Live View:

Menu > Shooting Menu > Movie > Assign Fn/Preview/AE-L/AF-L Button > View photo shooting info

This will switch to the photo settings in video LV without having to flip to photo LV (and add two more shutter actuations ;) ). It brings up the exposure meter and lets you adjust the shutter, aperture, and ISO, though obviously aperture still doesn't move. Either way, you have the exposure meter, so you can use Matrix, Center, or Spot metering to check your exposure on the scene and/or specific subjects. Remember the settings, then press the button again and input them into video LV (photo LV stays separate from video).

Also, all 3 of those buttons listed have this function available, so set it to the one that's most comfortable to you. I like the AE-L/AF-L Button, since I'm already looking at the back of the camera, most likely on a tripod or shoulder rig, and in Manual mode so there's nothing to lock. I did some tests in all video modes today with a bunch of different Picture Controls, and the exposure meter helped a ton when switching between 24/30/60 and 60 for slow mo (high shutter speed), even though the stupid clouds kept coming and going. :p
 
Are you sure it is NOT the CUSTOM SETTING MENU>MOVIE>ASSIGN FN etc. as written in the first post? It is not in the SHOOTING MENU.


Also,a little trick to adjust the aperture in MOVIE MODE:


Push the LIVE VIEW switch to PHOTO MODE.....go to APERTURE setting, adjust the aperture to your scene, check the exposure and go BACK to the VIDEO MODE in LIVE VIEW.
 
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This method works for me as well. Up until you hook up a monitor, then you drop your video signal a couple of times in doing this
 
EXTREMELY helpful! Thank you!


Found out something weird though

After I assigned the ae-l/af-l button to give me the values in still mode, I also assigned the shutter button to trigger the video recording...When you do that, it disables the previuous settings, so you can no longer switch to still mode with the assigne button.....VERY weird, and a little bit upsetting, since I like to use the shutter button to trigger video rec, especially with the way they allocated the video start/stop button (sometimes hard to find, when the camera is all rigged out, like mine)....


Carlo Zanella
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Blue Bomber said:
Just found a roundabout way to monitor exposure on the D7100's video Live View:

Menu > Shooting Menu > Movie > Assign Fn/Preview/AE-L/AF-L Button > View photo shooting info

This will switch to the photo settings in video LV without having to flip to photo LV (and add two more shutter actuations ;) ). It brings up the exposure meter and lets you adjust the shutter, aperture, and ISO, though obviously aperture still doesn't move. Either way, you have the exposure meter, so you can use Matrix, Center, or Spot metering to check your exposure on the scene and/or specific subjects. Remember the settings, then press the button again and input them into video LV (photo LV stays separate from video).

Also, all 3 of those buttons listed have this function available, so set it to the one that's most comfortable to you. I like the AE-L/AF-L Button, since I'm already looking at the back of the camera, most likely on a tripod or shoulder rig, and in Manual mode so there's nothing to lock. I did some tests in all video modes today with a bunch of different Picture Controls, and the exposure meter helped a ton when switching between 24/30/60 and 60 for slow mo (high shutter speed), even though the stupid clouds kept coming and going. :p
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