Alphabet Soup? Help

john_s

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The CI is the fraction DR/ER where the term ER is the Exposure Range as a log(base 10).

In this example, the ER is 5 x 0.3 = 1.5. Each "stop" is an exposure difference of 0.3. Another way is to say the brightness range is 32 (2^5) and log(base 10) of 32 is 1.5 (actually 1.505 if you want to be unnecessarily fussy). DR is already in log(base 10) units.


So CI = 1.25/1.5=0.83
 

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As a matter of interest, sensitivity of human vision is pretty much logarithmic. The just noticeable difference between two brightnesses is a nearly constant ratio. There's a lot more to it than that, but it's a good approximation over the usual range of adaptation.
 
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Thanks John

 
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