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Light meter for video
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  • dumiledumile

    about to buy a light meter, but I'll wait til some reviews come out on these new touch screen sekonics

  • DanPVDanPV

    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

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    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/

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Lumu light meter

    http://lu.mu/index.html

  • brianlbrianl

    Since a lot of people are using the BM Pocketcam, light meter is something I think is arguably a necessity for that particular cam. Pocketcam's only tool is lousy crude zebras. External monitors are fantastic, however the pocketcam is handicapped by a lousy mini HDMI interface.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    SEKONIC SPEEDMASTER L-858D

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