5 Weeks (4): TWiT Brickhouse Behind-The-Scenes

And yet another one in the 2012 North American Tour recap marathon:

TWiT Behind The ScenesI don’t know about you, but when it comes to stuff like TWiT, I *love* finding out how things look and work behind the scenes. I love to get my hands deep down into the tech of things, following cables and ending up in the basement where the servers emit their soothing hum around the clock.

Or in short: I’m really really (really) curious and this is my equivalent of taking apart kitchen appliances to find out how they work!

So when I was at the TWiT Brickhouse studio, I couldn’t help but record a little behind-the-scenes video tour, asking John Slanina (jammerb) to show me around.

Also find out where my brick ended up.

Watch the videos: part onetwothree

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How is it possible to replace one incident measurement with two grey card readings?

When I introduced a way to do incident metering without an incident meter I received several questions with regards to how this was possible.

Let me try to explain a bit further.

An incident light meter uses a white (but translucent) dome to integrate light from several directions:

Integral measurement

By taking two measurements with a grey card, you can approximate this quite well, actually to the point where the results are really really close.

Incidentmeter 5Incidentmeter 6

The trick is in the measurements and in the math.

More? Click here:

Incidentmeter.com

5 Weeks (3): The Stats

Airplane

A quick detour in the 2012 North Amercian Tour recap.. You know I’m curious, so I’ve just put together some stats about the tour.

During the five weeks, I’ve been flying on 13 different airplanes (must have added at least another 100 hot pixels to my camera’s sensor, talk about cosmic radiation and cameras), I have visited 6 different cities (not including the layovers), slept in 9 different hotels or other accommodations (including couches) and have driven 7 different rental cars.

*phew* … I’ll need a tour manager soon

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