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<p>[QUOTE="Denis Richard, post: 4994091, member: 112673"]There are no colour changes with studio flash. They are designed for photographic use, whereas the lights you're using likely aren't. You can get color steady variable power continuous light LED lights. </p><p><br /></p><p>Based on what you've said, it seems to me your best route would be to use your lights at full power, set the colour temp for that, set your ISO to native, likely100, set your camera to manual and pick an aperture with adequate depth of field, then manually adjust your shutter speed you get the exposure you want. (with an eye to any other light sources in the room) I'm not an advocate of auto settings like aperture priority. That's fine in an outdoor grab shot situation, but there's never a reason for it in studio. The camera meter doesn't know what the correct exposure of your coin should be. It's guessing at best. Auto mode doesn't only set shutter speed, it will change ISO too, and you don't want to change that, especially with dark coins. If you then apply exposure compensation to adjust your image, you're not really using the Auto mode anyway, so skip the middle man and set the camera to manual. IMO, (not that you're asking for it) you need to handle the shutter speed and final exposure yourself by shooting and reviewing the image and histogram. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is your camera tethered to your computer? Can you see you shots as they happen? </p><p><br /></p><p>Last thing, if you have raw capability, why do you want to shoot an edit limiting jpg?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Denis Richard, post: 4994091, member: 112673"]There are no colour changes with studio flash. They are designed for photographic use, whereas the lights you're using likely aren't. You can get color steady variable power continuous light LED lights. Based on what you've said, it seems to me your best route would be to use your lights at full power, set the colour temp for that, set your ISO to native, likely100, set your camera to manual and pick an aperture with adequate depth of field, then manually adjust your shutter speed you get the exposure you want. (with an eye to any other light sources in the room) I'm not an advocate of auto settings like aperture priority. That's fine in an outdoor grab shot situation, but there's never a reason for it in studio. The camera meter doesn't know what the correct exposure of your coin should be. It's guessing at best. Auto mode doesn't only set shutter speed, it will change ISO too, and you don't want to change that, especially with dark coins. If you then apply exposure compensation to adjust your image, you're not really using the Auto mode anyway, so skip the middle man and set the camera to manual. IMO, (not that you're asking for it) you need to handle the shutter speed and final exposure yourself by shooting and reviewing the image and histogram. Is your camera tethered to your computer? Can you see you shots as they happen? Last thing, if you have raw capability, why do you want to shoot an edit limiting jpg?[/QUOTE]
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