Sekonic Studio Deluxe is probably the only current one that doesn't use batteries. It's a venerable standard that's been in use by professionals for years. It's not light by modern standards, but it's perfectly usable. It does require you to use metal slides under many circumstances. I had one for a long time - still have it, in fact - but now I mainly use a Sekonic L-308 M.
I have also had an L-208, which is extremely small and light, but I wasn't happy with the readings it gave me - they tended towards underexposure - and it seems to have stopped working altogether now. Finally, I have an L-608 Zoom master, which is an all singing and dancing everything meter which I rarely use because of its size and because the L-308 M does everything I usually need. http://www.sekonic.co.uk/ Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Nick David Wright > Sent: 25 February 2009 23:31 > To: [email protected] > Subject: light meters > > > I think that I'd like to purchase a hand-held meter sometime > in the near future. But I'm not really sure which one I'd > like to go with. Just looking to meter ambient light. I'd > like something small and simple. What do you all recommend? > > Also I believe in the past I've seen some that do not require > batteries, does such a thing exist? > > Thanks. > > ~Nick David Wright > http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
