Photography Asked on June 25, 2021
I’m trying to calculate the EV (exposure value) for an image file based on its exif data. From the exposure value article at Wikipedia, I am using this formula for calculating EV:
EV = EV100 + LOG(S/100, 2)
= LOG(N^2 / t, 2) + LOG(S/100, 2)
where LOG(x, 2)
is log of x in base 2 and:
N: F-Number (1.0, 1.4, 2.0, 2.8, 4.0, 5.6, 8.0, 11, 16, 22, 32, 45, 64)
t: the exposure time in seconds ("shutter speed")
S: ISO (100, 200, ...)
Now, the problems that I have for calculating EV based on exif data (the values shown are from a sample image I took with my Canon 6D, the camera was set on Av mode, with Aperture set to 11 and ISO auto):
FNumber: 11
or ApertureValue: 11.3
?ISO: 500
or BaseISO: 519
?ExposureTime
but I might be missing somethingMeasuredEV: 10.38
and MeasuredEV2: 9.75
. I believe the camera has calculated these internally but first, why there are two of them? And secondly, why when I calculate the EV using the formula does not match any of these two values (based on the formula, I have 14.14
and 14.27
for the different values provided above).Can someone please help me calculate the actual EV for an image?
[UPDATE]
I’m trying to use this formula to smooth the exposure for my time-lapses. Below you can see the flow of change for 600 pictures that I took as a time-lapse. The chart shows MeasuredEV
, MeasuredEV2
, and CalcEV
which I calculated using the provided formula and parameters: ISO
, FNumber
, and ExposureTime
.
As you can see, while the two MeasuredEV
and MeasuredEV2
are pretty close to each other, the CalcEV
diverges from them after a while. Which means I have no idea what’s going on!
[UPDATE]
Per @Michael C’s request (which I believe he is onto something), here you can see the changes for ISO over the 600 images I took:
And for the sake of completeness, the corresponding time (shutter speed):
And as I said before, the aperture was fixed on 11 for the whole set.
The formula should be :
EV = LOG(N^2 / t, 2) - LOG(S/100, 2).
If a cloud passes and the EV diminishes by half, you can keep the same N and t but need to double S (ISO). EV of a scene is decreasing with S needed to take the picture.
Answered by Hugues on June 25, 2021
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