Forgive me if this has been requested before.
The current LV spotmeter says "Measure brightness from a small spot in the frame. " It says nothing about what small means, ie area.
As someone who uses a 1-deg spot meter a lot, I wonder if it is possible to give the spotmeter some intelligence.
By this I mean the user can tell ML, which assumes a 50mm lens is fitted, what the focal length of the actual lens is, and ML, which I assume is sampling the sensor LV feed, adjusts the spot area to the equivalent of a 1-deg spot.
Quote from: garry23 on April 01, 2015, 03:11:17 AM
The current LV spotmeter says "Measure brightness from a small spot in the frame. " It says nothing about what small means, ie area.
There is a small square on the screen - that's exactly where the metering is taken from.
Alex
Thanks for comfirming that Alex.
Could you confirm the square's size for me.
Cheers
Garry
Pretty small (http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=12096.0#post_Spotmeter). :P
Seriously, I'm content with knowing its small, and much smaller than the Canon spot.
I wrote about it in my blog. http://photography.grayheron.net/2015/04/maybe-my-last-post-on-ml-based.html
Over and out :)