Setting The Exposure - Hasselblad FlexColor V4 Software Reference Manual

The Exposure Window
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Setting the Exposure

turns yellow to indicate a probably bad exposure and turns white to
indicate a good exposure. Only the part of the image that is inside of your
crop area is measured by this tool, which means that the measurement
will change when you modify the crop area.
For over- or underexposed images or crop areas the window will display a
warning to either decrease or increase the exposure.
Place a mark in the Mark overexposed in preview check box to see an
indication of the overexposed areas in the preview. These areas will be
highlighted in bright pink so that you can decide if they are important to
your subject. Clear this check box to remove the highlighting from the
preview.
Setting the Exposure
Some camera bodies allow the aperture and shutter speed to be set by
remote control, though most require you to set the exposure using the
standard controls on the camera body.
If you are able to and want to control the aperture and shutter speed from
FlexColor then place a checkmark in the Enable camera control
check-box.
The camera body that you select in the Preferences window affects the
availability and functionality of the Shutter time and Aperture settings
here in the Exposure window. You must identify your camera body in
order for the Exposure window to work correctly. See "The Preferences
Window" on page 47 for details about how to set your camera body type
in FlexColor.
Shutter Time
The Shutter time setting controls how long the CCD will be exposed
before the image data starts to be downloaded to your computer. You
must adjust the CCD exposure time used by your camera back to be sure
that it is not shorter than your shutter speed.
If you are working with a camera body that allows the shutter speed to be
set remotely, then the Shutter time setting will also control your shutter
speed.
A good strategy for working with the Shutter time setting with most
camera bodies is to keep it set to 1/15 sec. Then be sure that you do not set
your camera body to use an exposure time that is longer than this. If you
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