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Article #85light meter to LUX or footcandles conversion
From: Royce Bair
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:00
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I have a nice, $400 Minolta IV exposure meter (for photography) that will take incident light readings (both for ambient and flash). The readings it gives are super accurate for film/camera exposure settings. However, I have a need to convert the f-stop and shutter settings to either "footcandles" or "LUX" levels. I need this conversion for some scientific testing I'm doing. Let say, I set my meter to an ASA or ISO of 100, and my meter gives me an ambient light reading of for a camera exposure setting of F8 @ 1/30 second -- what would be the level of LUX or footcandles of light that has fallen on my subject? Does anyone know how to get this information? I don't want to buy a light meter that gives these reading in LUX or footcandles, when I already have a very sensitive meter. BTW, I know how to convert between LUX and footcandles. Royce Bair royce@tssphoto.com Stock Solution (a photo agency): http://www.tssphoto.com/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1028fe,903342b35d2bc5e2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1028fe,public X-Google-Thread: fb1d1,903342b35d2bc5e2,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1d1,public X-Google-Thread: 111d0a,903342b35d2bc5e2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111d0a,public From: Royce Bair <Royce@tssphoto.com> Subject: light meter to LUX or footcandles conversion Date: 1999/01/11 Message-ID: <369A9BAC.2034@tssphoto.com> X-Deja-AN: 431460779 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com X-Trace: news.xmission.com 916102074 5448 166.70.101.222 (12 Jan 1999 00:47:54 GMT) Organization: The Stock Solution Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Royce@tssphoto.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jan 1999 00:47:54 GMT Newsgroups: sci.engr.lighting,sci.electronics.basics,bit.listserv.museum-l