• Members 3952 posts
    June 12, 2023, 12:07 p.m.

    By including "for a constant image lightness, not exposure*,..." I have never needed to say the third remains fixed for people to understand what I meant.

    In the example camera settings I post people see that the 3rd setting is fixed without me having to tell them.

    * exposure - amount of light that struck the sensor per unit area while the shutter was open.

  • Members 878 posts
    June 12, 2023, 12:13 p.m.

    By doing that, you made it wrong. It would have been wrong if you did not do that as well. And no, two wrongs do not make one right here.

  • Members 3952 posts
    June 12, 2023, 12:16 p.m.

    We'll just have to disagree on this one.

    With the example camera settings I post people see the 3rd setting is fixed so there is no confusion in what I am saying.

  • June 12, 2023, 12:39 p.m.

    That's changing the responsivity, not the sensitivity. In any case, to think that changing responsivity of a transducer is the only way to change the output of the system in which it's used is a grave conceptual error. It's like saying that the only way to make your record player louder is to buy a cartridge with a larger output. Then going on to say that the volume control is in fact a cartridge 'sensitivity' control.

  • Members 976 posts
    June 12, 2023, 1:39 p.m.

    Yes, and how it's being called distorts physics behind the camera operation.

  • Members 280 posts
    June 12, 2023, 2:09 p.m.

    Learning of the relationship between aperture, shutter speed, scene brightness and exposure.

    Don

  • Members 976 posts
    June 12, 2023, 2:14 p.m.

    Maybe also between exposure and noise / clipping.

  • June 12, 2023, 2:18 p.m.

    In fact, that it elevates what is probably the least important concern in exposure management to be the most important, and indeed the sole concern.

  • Members 976 posts
    June 12, 2023, 2:25 p.m.

    Unrealistic ugly pictures are always a concern.

  • Members 534 posts
    June 23, 2023, 6:01 p.m.

    How much does that change with a day's worth of dust?