{"id":1192,"date":"2010-12-26T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:00:40","slug":"turn-your-camera-into-an-incident-light-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Turn Your Camera Into An Incident Light Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1194\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photographer_ExpoDisc_2856_j4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1194\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1194\" title=\"Photographer Using an ExpoDisc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photographer_ExpoDisc_2856_j4.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer Using an ExpoDisc. Photo copyright Jim Doty Jr.\" width=\"550\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Using an ExpoDisc<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">There are a lot of advantages to using an incident light meter, and you can read about them <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/exp101\/exp_inc_meter\/exp_inc_meter.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">.\u00c2\u00a0  But what if you don&#8217;t have an incident light meter? Or you are                      packing light and don&#8217;t want to take your incident  light meter with you?  There are several less expensive alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\"><!--more-->One excellent alternative is an ExpoDisc. You put one on the front of your camera lens, point it at the light source, and use it like an incident light meter. Details are <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/exp101\/exp_expodisc\/exp_expodisc.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of advantages to using an incident light meter, and you can read about them here.\u00c2\u00a0 But what if you don&#8217;t have an incident light meter? Or you are packing light and don&#8217;t want to take your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-metering","category-photo-accessories","category-using-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}