old school exposure

[abstrax]

Hi all,

Since some people miss the old school exposure settings for reasons that are totally beyond me, I have whipped up a little Lua node graph that emulates the old exposure settings:

old_school_exposure.orbx

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Just download the file and import it into your project (via RMB click in the node graph editor -> Import...) and connect it with the exposure pin of the camera imager node like:

Cheers,
Marcus

[p3taoctane]

Thanks
THough it may seem like you are creating a bit of code that is old school ... being older than school myself... I love it

Thanks

Peter

[bepeg4d]

Hi Marcus,
first of all, the lua node is fantastic, thanks for sharing this example
here is my simple version but i don't think is correct in terms of calculation:

EV_exposure.orbx

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could you have a look at it?
ciao beppe

[roeland]

The exposure on a camera is a logarithmic scale, +1 EV means double the exposure. The formula is exposure * 2 ^ EV.

Check the times you typically find on a shutter speed dial:

• 1/1000
• 1/500
• 1/250
• 1/125
• 1/60
• 1/30
• 1/15
• 1/8
• 1/4
• 1/2
• 1

Every stop doubles the exposure.

--
Roeland

[bepeg4d]

thanks roeland for the info
fortunately for my old brain, Marcus has create a brilliant solution that solves my needs
ciao beppe

[Phil_RA]

The reason it was useful to have the three settings is to match a photo's EXIF data. I'm trying to make sure the scene I'm working on is physically correct, so using the exif data and putting in the same values allows me to make sure that mights are of the correct intensity.