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Posted by P.C. Ford on 03/31/07 08:09
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:55:16 +0100, mv@movingvision.co.uk wrote:
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>I have little difficulty judging exposure by eye as I quickly get to
>know my cameras monitors and latitude, but I do use the zebra as a way
>of maintaining uniform exposure on a subject that I'm shooting over a
>longer period of time than the final film means to portray.
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>For example we did a series of films with people presenting to camera,
>typically each presentation took over an hour to shoot but the final
>film makes it look like a five minute presentation. The locations were
>outside with our British weather as often as not producing several
>levels of light during the shoot. By using the zebra as a pattern
>generator and marking the persons face with a spot on the nose, the
>forehead, the chin etc. It was easy to maintain a uniform exposure by
>adjusting the iris so that the
>pattern stayed the same.
Yes.
Or as a friend of mine says, "Zebras are your friends."
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