Intellegent Spotmeter

[garry23]

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.

[a1ex]

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.

[garry23]

Alex

Thanks for comfirming that Alex.

Could you confirm the square's size for me.

Cheers

Garry

[Audionut]

Pretty small. 

[garry23]

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