{"id":6388,"date":"2012-05-03T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2012-05-03T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:09:07","slug":"canon-eos-5d-mark-iiis-light-leak-fix-found-to-be-black-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=6388","title":{"rendered":"Canon EOS 5D Mark III&#8217;s light leak fix found to be black tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post_info\" style=\"margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Times; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: medium; padding: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"post_byline\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left; padding: 0px;\"><span class=\"caption\" style=\"color: #111111; font-style: italic; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif !important;\">By\u00a0<a style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #111111;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/editor\/jon-fingas\" rel=\"author\">Jon Fingas<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content_types\" style=\"margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: right; position: relative; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\" style=\"clear: both; position: relative; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_body\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; color: #444444; letter-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #00bdf6;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/05\/02\/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii-light-leak-fix-is-black-tape\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: #000000; margin-top: 16px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 12px; width: 245px; height: 142px; float: right; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2012\/05\/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii-fix.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a>When Canon\u00a0<a style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #00bdf6;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/04\/14\/5d-mark-iii-light-leak-incorrect-exposure-readout\/\">promised a fix<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0<a style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #00bdf6;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/03\/22\/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii-review\/\">EOS 5D Mark III<\/a>&#8216;s preview LCD leaking light, photographers wondered just what the &#8220;countermeasures&#8221; would be to prevent the display from affecting exposure readouts. The remedy, it turns out, is a simple patch &#8212; of the physical kind, not software. Roger Cicala at\u00a0<em>LensRentals<\/em>\u00a0was brave enough to tear down one of the\u00a0<a style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #00bdf6;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/DSLR\/\">DSLR<\/a>s shipping with a fix already in place and found black electrical tape covering the LCD area that would otherwise spill light into the exposure meter. While basic, the solution does the trick, and will no doubt be a relief to shutterbugs who want to know exactly what exposure they&#8217;ll get while snapping photos in the dark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Jon Fingas\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Canon\u00a0promised a fix\u00a0for the\u00a0EOS 5D Mark III&#8216;s preview LCD leaking light, photographers wondered just what the &#8220;countermeasures&#8221; would be to prevent the display from affecting exposure readouts. The remedy, it turns out, is a simple patch &#8212; of the physical kind, not software. Roger Cicala at\u00a0LensRentals\u00a0was brave enough to tear down one of the\u00a0DSLRs shipping with a fix already in place and found black electrical tape covering the LCD area that would otherwise spill light into the exposure meter. While basic, the solution does the trick, and will no doubt be a relief to shutterbugs who want to know exactly what exposure they&#8217;ll get while snapping photos in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9,32,31],"tags":[546,157],"class_list":["post-6388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-photography","category-reference","category-report","tag-canon","tag-light-leak"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canon EOS 5D Mark III&#039;s light leak fix found to be black tape - Divetalking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=6388\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Canon EOS 5D Mark III&#039;s light leak fix found to be black tape\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=6388\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-05-03T13:08:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-05-03T13:09:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2012\/05\/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii-fix.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=6388#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=6388\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/02d5721103fd9d171fcc8cfb74d80947\"},\"headline\":\"Canon EOS 5D Mark III&#8217;s light leak fix found to be black tape\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-03T13:08:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-05-03T13:09:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=6388\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=6388#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.blogcdn.com\\\/www.engadget.com\\\/media\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii-fix.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Canon\",\"light leak\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Featured\",\"Photography\",\"Reference\",\"Report\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=6388\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=6388\",\"name\":\"Canon EOS 5D Mark III's light leak fix found to be black tape - 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