Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
I looked up light meters on Amazon and was surprised to find that most read out in foot candles.
I suppose photographic meters are a thing of the past in the age of digital.
So the question is does anyone know how to convert foot candles to F stops and ISO values.
Both are measuring the same light intensity.
Re: Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
-Foot candle is an illuminance quantity (think of it is as the amount of light falling onto something)
-F stops have to do with lens aperture
-ISO values are standard measures of emulsion speed
There are relationships between these things in the context of photographic exposure (EV numbers for example) depending on whether you are using an incident or reflected meter etc.
What are you trying to do specifically? For example, find a camera setting (f stop and shutter speed) for an exposure based on an incident meter reading in foot candles?
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Re: Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
I had saved an old web page that had tables for light and exposure conversions. I couldn't get the page into a pic to attach so I printed it to a PDF file. You can't see it here but you can download it to view it. It has direct conversions in a table for f-stop, shutter speed and foot candles. Maybe this will help?
Alternately, I would just buy a decent used exposure meter that does the work for you...
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there's a ton of photo light meters on amazon. just search for sekonic or other specific brands to WEED out the ones for indoor gardening, or try keh.
Re: Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
Trial and error by narrowing your plot to a good image
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Re: Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
There are simple formulas we can use to find EVs for luminance or illuminance values. Once you have an EV you can decide on your exposure settings (aperture, shutter speed). We just need to know a little more about what type of meter OP has in mind or make some assumptions to estimate. Need some clarity in the original question.
But on balance I agree with the Maltese Falcon - just get a regular incident or reflected exposure meter which does this for you.
Re: Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
… or get a meter that does both, like a Weston Master III (reflective mode only).
Re: Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
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Originally Posted by
Grandpa Ron
I suppose photographic meters are a thing of the past in the age of digital.
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https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/L...0/N/4077634543
Re: Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
I have an old Dejur selenium light meter which I am checking the against some of my old camera light meters. The problem is some of the the old film camera meters are through the lens meters of unknown field of view.
For $20.00 or so I can get an inexpensive light meter that reads in Foot Candles, then match the reading to the conversion chart I down loaded. A gray card reading should do the trick.
Re: Foot candle to aperture and ISO.
If you already have a gray card you can use that with your through the lens camera meter. Just fill the frame with the gray card, and it won't matter what the field of view of the meter is.