Exposure & Metering

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A handholding guideline stating that the slowest safe shutter speed is roughly one over the focal length in use.

The principle that exposure depends only on the product of light intensity and time, so halving one and doubling the other leaves the…

Measuring the light bouncing off a subject toward the camera, which is what every built-in camera meter does.

Three separate histograms, one per colour channel, revealing clipping that a combined luminance histogram would hide.