Hi, I have a Sekonic L-608 light meter, which was pretty much top of the range when I bought it. It's a very good, accurate light meter which delivers excellent results.
The Sekonic web site is now showing the L-758DR: http://www.sekonic.com/products/products.asp?ID=130 What problems does this solve? It claims to be able to calibrate your camera, work out the dynamic range it can handle, and give you the exposure to suit. I don't really understand why the exposure should be any different, or what benefit that is, so perhaps someone can explain it to me. Is this only a benefit with reflected readings, or is it a benefit with incident readings too? Are the benefits anything other than marginal? I have never noticed any problems with the exposures recommended by my L-608. Just to check, I took a few photos today of things that a reflective meter might have problems with. Here are some of them: http://www.web-options.com/meter/ The second picture of the house was taken with the camera on P, just to show that the meter has been fooled. The other pictures were on manual, using an incident reading. Where's the problem? I have looked at the histograms of these pictures, and they're fine. In particular, the correctly exposed house shows no clipping at the white end at all. I'd like to understand how the L-758DR helps? Incidentally, I'm not normally a cropper, but I've been playing with Lightroom, and cropped the picture of the boat to 35mm proportions (2:3) and the statue of Wally to the Golden Ratio (1:1.618), which seems appropriate for the surrounding architecture. I like the way LR gives you the ability to set fixed aspect ratios. -- Regards, Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
