Oh sure... You post this and I come home with a BAG of chips before reading it. It figures, tax day anyhow...
I kinda like them. Nice salt level. Good taste. Their can fails miserably at keeping them from breaking, but they make a danm fine $.99 WB setter.
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I kinda like them. Nice salt level. Good taste. Their can fails
miserably at keeping them from breaking, but they make a danm fine
$.99 WB setter.
-GageFX
)I kinda like them. Nice salt level. Good taste. Their can fails
miserably at keeping them from breaking, but they make a danm fine
$.99 WB setter.
-GageFX
I've been thinking about the expo disk and you just save me 70 bucks - thanks! I did some tests under 1 regular houshold light bulb, using a bread crumb container lid - same as your pringles but much larger. I didnt compare with a kodak grey card because I rarely use it (a pain to carry around), the lid will have a special place in my bag
. I pointed the camera straight at the light to take a reading - its the correct way right? so how would I take a reading using camera mounted flash? OK, here are the tests: 
Great idea, Cedric.
Hmmm...not a bad idea. I'll have to try that tonight. No Pringles in the house.
I've been thinking about the expo disk and you just save me 70
bucks - thanks! I did some tests under 1 regular houshold light
bulb, using a bread crumb container lid - same as your pringles but
much larger. I didnt compare with a kodak grey card because I
rarely use it (a pain to carry around), the lid will have a special
place in my bag
take a reading - its the correct way right? so how would I take a
reading using camera mounted flash? OK, here are the tests:
Hi GageFX, thanks for your tips on the flash part. I tried the lid today outdoor but it didn't do wonder like my previous test. It was about 5 pm, the sun was still out I was in the shade - I didn't know where to point to get a reading so I just pointed up to the sky. The shot came out a litte less sastified than the 5500K one. Any tricks for this one?
)Yep kind of works that way- here is the manual for the Expo/Disc:What I remember from the time of manual exposure meters: you could
either point them in the direction of the object you wanted to
shoot( pretty much like the TTL exposure meter works) or you could
do it in reverse- and for that put a diffusor cap in fornt of the
sensor.
I would assume that it should work the same way for the WB as well-
measure the light that falls onto the object- so lets say you want
to shoot a tree. You would remember the place you wanted to make
the shot from, walk to the tree, put the pringles lid on the camera
and point into the direction were you stood before. Now do the WB,
walk back to that position and make the shot.
Sounds like golf to me
Good question. Try both and get back to me.
Just pointing it anywhere should be fine as long as it is all
natural light. If youare outdoors under artificial light then point
it at those lights... I guess.
-GageFX
--I learned this tidbit on a Canon forum somewhere. I think it was
the one post that wasnt about a lens or frontfocus.
At any rate, many of you may have heard of the "Expodisc".
http://www.expodisc.com/
They cost between $50-60.
I made mine for $17 plus one white Kleenex tissue, although I'm
sure other brands will work as well.
Here are the results: (These are with 10D settings. The custom WB
will work just as well with the E-xx, your auto setting may work
better though.)
This was shot of a white wall, white shelves, and slightly grey/off
white speakers. The matte on the lower frame is also white.
First shot is the custom setting shot, the others are self
explanatory (I think).
As you can see, the custom setting is right on. The incandescent
shot comes close, but auto and fluorescent are way off.
This will work just as well on the E-xx.
Here's how it's made.
Buy a Quantum QF64 Diffusing UV Filter Kit - about $17 from any
camera store. It comes with two plastic discs and a plastic ring
that these discs fit into. Take a white tissue and sandwhich it
between the two plastic discs. Snap the discs into the ring. Cut
excess tissue with scissors. Tada.
Another thing, the largest Expodisc is 72mm. The fancy-dancy
Quantum WB doohickey is about 120mm so it is large enough to work
with any size lens.
All you do is hold the "f-d Q WB dh" up to the lens, aim the camera
at the light source and take your WB set exposure. That's it.
Just an E-xx pertinant tidbit from a former E-xxer.
-GageFX
--I learned this tidbit on a Canon forum somewhere. I think it was
the one post that wasnt about a lens or frontfocus.
At any rate, many of you may have heard of the "Expodisc".
http://www.expodisc.com/
They cost between $50-60.
I made mine for $17 plus one white Kleenex tissue, although I'm
sure other brands will work as well.
Here are the results: (These are with 10D settings. The custom WB
will work just as well with the E-xx, your auto setting may work
better though.)
This was shot of a white wall, white shelves, and slightly grey/off
white speakers. The matte on the lower frame is also white.
First shot is the custom setting shot, the others are self
explanatory (I think).
As you can see, the custom setting is right on. The incandescent
shot comes close, but auto and fluorescent are way off.
This will work just as well on the E-xx.
Here's how it's made.
Buy a Quantum QF64 Diffusing UV Filter Kit - about $17 from any
camera store. It comes with two plastic discs and a plastic ring
that these discs fit into. Take a white tissue and sandwhich it
between the two plastic discs. Snap the discs into the ring. Cut
excess tissue with scissors. Tada.
Another thing, the largest Expodisc is 72mm. The fancy-dancy
Quantum WB doohickey is about 120mm so it is large enough to work
with any size lens.
All you do is hold the "f-d Q WB dh" up to the lens, aim the camera
at the light source and take your WB set exposure. That's it.
Just an E-xx pertinant tidbit from a former E-xxer.
-GageFX
