[rollei_list] Re: OT: Lightmeter
- From: Jon stanton <Jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 17:53:50 -0700
I bought a Gossen Pilot about a dozen years ago...,, very simple
Olympia, WA
On May 11, 2013, at 17:12, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I bought a brand new Sekonic L-208 lightmeter; it's the simplest
> lightmeter you could imagine, but it's very compact and you can handle
> it with one hand, it has a silicon photo diode as light receiving
> element . I needed a small lightmeter because the very complete Gossen
> Luna Pro F is too big for some situations (it's bigger than the Rollei
> 35). I don't use lightmeters very much, I use experience and exposure
> tables in general, however they are really useful for indoors
> photography with natural and artificial light.
>
> This little lightmeter has two interesting points:
> 1) It comes with a shoe to fit it in the camera accesories shoe if you
> want to do it, this way you measure the reflected light almost from
> the lens position, the lightmeter shoe has three holes to align it
> with the lens. The measurement angle is 33º.
>
> 2) The shutter speeds scale has marks for 1/5, 1/10, 1/25, 1/50,
> 1/100, 1/200, 1/400 and 1/800sec beside the regular numbers and the f
> stop scale has intermediate marks between the regular numbers. They
> help for a more exact exposure setting if you have old cameras like
> the 2.8C , 'cord IV, Voss Diax IIa RF, Contax II etcetera with some
> shutter speeds using the older numbers.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blZgtwUVKQ
>
> Carlos
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