SEKONIC SPEEDMASTER L-858D
Lumu light meter
The light meter is essential for matching and to get your head around light ratios as a young cinematographer. If you look on the monitor and you like the way it looks, the mood and the color tone, then get in there and read those levels and read the color temperature. These are all building blocks of your memory of light.
http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2014/01/reading-a-light-meter/
Ryan E. Walters compares professional light meters with light metering apps available on the iphone:
I decided to compare 5 light meters in 2 different environments to evaluate the results.
The 5 meters that I'll be looking at are the
- Sekonic 758Cine ($822),
- 478D with Spot Attachment ($498 total),
- Pocket Light Meter (Free - $4.99 + Dongle)
- Cine Meter ($4.99 + Dongle),
- and the internal "brain" of the Canon 60D ($1,299).
The first test environment was in the controlled environment of my studio. The second environment was in my kitchen - uncontrolled lighting, using the overhead 5000k CFLs, lovely green spike and all. For every measurement I took a reading from the same area on a Kodak Grey Card.
http://www.ryanewalters.com/Blog/blog.php?id=1222011888909495377
about to buy a light meter, but I'll wait til some reviews come out on these new touch screen sekonics
A light meter is an invaluable tool on a digital set when you try to keep a constant ratio between key/fill/background etc. Having a monitor doesn't help you too much in that case. If you shoot the reverse shot to another shot you have taken a couple hours earlier, you probably won't be able to recreate the same ratios just by looking at your monitor.... A light meeter helps you to keep everything consistent from one shot to the next, even if many hours or even days passed in-between filming the shots...
Yep!
This guys really need to start selling software for smartphone and small hardware addon. :-)
That looks very interesting considering what @shian says about exposing in zones. The software included determines the DR of your cam and safes it for later use so you can measure your scene and check if it is within that range. I like!
nice
New Sekonic meters
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