Which is the best lightmeter for me?
choices i’ve researched:
- Sekonic Flashmate L-308S Light Meter
-Gossen Digisix Light Meter
- Gossen Lunasix 3 S
I want a light meter, because after learning and practicing “zone photography and previsualization” my centre weighted meter isn’t quite enough.
I may also do some strobing in the future.
Can i use these light meters (especially the cheap sekonic) for landscapes? How would i just the reflective meter in landscape scenerios?
It will be usefull if the meter has some kind of guide numbers to make minor adjustments (i.e. meter a zone 3 area, recalcualted from the medium grey. This is so I don’t have to do the calculations in my head)
Do i need to be standing next to my subject when i meter? i.e. landscape scenerios?
those are all incident or scene meters
what you need for the zone system is a spot meter … the best being the old pentax spotmeter V.
and what you do with a spotmeter is carry a gray card with you, and place it in your landscape, point your meter at it and voila instant zone V reference. find the darkest spot in your scene, and the brightest spot. then write down the difference. this lets you know whether you need to overexpose or underexpose, and overprocess or underprocess. expose for shadows, process for highlights.
and with a spotmeter you don’t stand next to the subject… you stand next to the camera, since it has a 1 degree angle it can meter far, far away.
if you want to buy new the seikonic L-358 can have a spot accessory attached
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Mastech Digital Illuminance/Light Meter LX1330B , 0 – 200,000 Lux Luxmeter $79.95 The LX1330B can measure from 0 up to 200,000 lux, you can switch the units between lux and footcandle by simply pressing a button. It’s powered by a 9V battery, which last for 200 hours or even longer. Other nice features include data hold, auto zero and more. Features: High Accuracy and rapid response Auto Zeroing Over-range indication Unit and Sign display for easy reading Data Hold L… |
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Sekonic L-358 Flash Master Light Meter $308.50 The Sekonic L-358 Flash Master is an advanced, yet easy to operate, exposure analyzing light meter, that incorporates the latest technology in handheld meters. The L-358 features a retractable incident Lumisphere for standard or cosine corrected light readings, provides both hemispherical and narrow angle readings. Measurements can be taken in either incident or flash metering modes with accurate … |
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Mastech Light Meter LX1010BS with lcd display ,100,000 Lux Luxmeter $13.39 3 1/2 digits 18mm LCDRange: 1~100,000LuxAccuracy: ≤10,000Lux, ±(4%rdg+10digit)>10,000Lux, ±(5%rdg+10digit)Resolution: 1LuxRepeatability: ± 2%Temperature Characteristic: ± 0.1%/°CSampling Time: 0.5 secondPhoto detector: one silicon photodiode with flitterDimensions: 130Lx72Wx30H(mm)Over-input: Indication of “1″… |
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Light Meter LX1010B,50,000 Lux Luxmeter with lcd display $8.18 The digital lux meter LX1010B can measure up to 50,000 lux, approximately 5,000 footcandles. It’s used for checking the level of luminance, luminance is a measure of the amount of light falling on a surface. It is defined as: ‘the density of the luminous flux incident on a surface’. It is the quotient of the luminous flux by the area of the surface when the latter is uniformly illuminate… |
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