MY gossen is my best friend with a grey card. --- Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Monday, March 24, 2003, 7:03:52 PM, you wrote: > > >>What would folks recommend in a handmeter, spot > or ambient? > > > I use, and like, the Sekonic L-398M. It runs, > $161.00 at B&H. It's an analog type but is extremely > accurate and does not require a > > battery. > > I would recommend an incident meter. With a > spotmeter you need to be > fairly confident that you can judge how close to 18% > grey the thing is > that you're metering off. Personally I'm just not up > to it, and life's > too short to learn. > > I also have an L-398M, and I agree that it's a good > meter. There are > some downsides to it, though. First, it doesn't > meter to very low > levels. Second, you need to use little metal slides > if you're shooting > outdoors in normal daylight. These are very easy to > lose, and the > small metal loop/handle/thing on them breaks easily > so they become > quite difficult and annoying to extract from the > meter. > > I haven't used my L-398M for a while. I bought a > Sekonic L608 zoom > spot/indcident/flash/reflected super-duper meter. It > is really > excellent, but would be even more excellent if it > was smaller. It > relies on batteries. When they fail they fail > quickly with little or > no warning, so it's advisable to have some spares > around. > > -- > Cheers, > Bob > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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