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Flash Guide Number

by Photography Calculators in Other

x402 APIFailing, checked 23 h ago

Flash guide-number maths: range for an aperture and ISO, or the aperture needed for a distance, in metres and feet.

GET
https://photo-calc.x402tookit.com/flash-guide-number
Price
$0.02
per call in USDC
Uptime
52.9%
last 30 days
Response time
524 ms
916 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Failed
23 h ago, next in 47 min

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How to call it

GET https://photo-calc.x402tookit.com/flash-guide-number

Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Polygon, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

GET https://photo-calc.x402tookit.com/flash-guide-number?aperture=8&guideNumber=58

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
aperturenumberNof-number to find the distance (give aperture or distanceM)
distanceMnumberNoSubject distance in metres to find the aperture
guideNumbernumberYesGuide number at ISO 100 in metres (GN 58 means 58 m at f/1)
isonumberNoISO (default 100)

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "aperture": 8,
  "asOf": "2026-10-11T08:40:15.301Z",
  "degraded": false,
  "disclaimer": "Screening signal computed from the named public source. Not financial, legal or investment advice; provided as is. Verify at the source before acting.",
  "guideNumberAtIso": 58,
  "halfPowerRangeM": 5.127,
  "notChecked": [
    "the flash's zoom head setting and power level (the guide number is for a stated zoom and full power)",
    "ambient light, reflective ceilings and surfaces, and TTL automation",
    "…1 more"
  ],
  "quarterPowerRangeM": 3.625,
  "rangeFt": 23.786,
  "rangeM": 7.25,
  "reasons": [
    "Distance = guide number / aperture, with GN scaled by the square root of ISO / 100.",
    "Each stop of aperture change shifts the range by a factor of 1.41; half power cuts the range to 71%."
  ],
  "source": "computed locally",
  "summary": "GN 58 at ISO 100 with f/8: full-power range 7.25 m (23.8 ft).",
  "verdict": "COMPUTED"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://photo-calc.x402tookit.com/flash-guide-number?aperture=8&guideNumber=58'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://photo-calc.x402tookit.com/flash-guide-number?aperture=8&guideNumber=58' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphoto-calc.x402tookit.com%2Fflash-guide-number
const res = await pay("https://photo-calc.x402tookit.com/flash-guide-number?aperture=8&guideNumber=58");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://photo-calc.x402tookit.com/flash-guide-number?aperture=8&guideNumber=58")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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