false color monitor instead of light meter

aaaa said:
Can I use a false color monitor instead of a light meter to set exposure?
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You can use the zebras or other 'indicators' to know that you are either over exposing, or under exposing, if available...

What you will not know is what the values are in between. If you have 'faces' say in the shot, and the sky is blown, you adjust to get rid of the zebras on the sky, the face values drop to 'dark'... doesn't make for a good shot despite not 'clipping' the whites...
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
You can use the zebras or other 'indicators' to know that you are either over exposing, or under exposing, if available...What you will not know is what the values are in between. If you have 'faces' say in the shot, and the sky is blown, you adjust to get rid of the zebras on the sky, the face values drop to 'dark'... doesn't make for a good shot despite not 'clipping' the whites...
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I wasn't talking about zebras, but a false color monitor where the differnt colors represent IRE values.
 
Absolutely, a false color monitor, if getting a true signal from the camera, is actually better than a light meter. Just because it takes into account all the weird thing that happens to the light when it goes through the camera.
 
aaaa said:
I wasn't talking about zebras, but a false color monitor where the differnt colors represent IRE values.
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Ah... I'm a numbers kind of guy... so for me a false color display would only be sort of a general indicator. I'd rather have quantitative differences.
 
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