Hello Cesar, I have a Gossen Luna Pro Digital meter that I used all the time. The issue becomes, however, how best to expose for the camera or film in question. When shooting film, the light meter works well. But when shooting digital, a histogram works much better because it shows you how the camera/sensor will record the image. Doesn't really matter what the meter thinks the 'right' exposure should be, you still need to work with what the sensor will actually record. By viewing the histogram, you can decide if you are going to blow out parts of the image or record them too dark for working with in post process. The light meter will not help you with that issue.
I still have the meter and carry it with me all the time, but find I don't use it very often. If I didn't already own it, I don't think I would buy one at this point - unless I was going to shoot film - which I don't have a film camera anymore. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 6:35:54 PM, you wrote: CMI> Larry Colen wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:30:57PM -0800, Nick David Wright wrote: >> # >> # 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? >> >> I recommend waiting until you get your K10. In the length of time that >> it takes to use a hand held light meter, you can fire a test shot, >> look at the histogram and make corrections accordingly. >> CMI> +++ CMI> I never learned to use histograms to judge exposure - is it not CMI> dependent on the reflectivity of the scene? I just rely on my meter. CMI> I frequently use a hand-held meter when using my *ist D. It is true CMI> that quite often the difference in exposure from the camera's meter is CMI> but a stop, but I believe in getting it right from the start. I guess CMI> it comes from my film-shooting days when I always exposed as if I were CMI> shooting slide film. And nowadays I don't really want to spend time CMI> 'tweaking' my shots. CMI> As some of you may have noted, a lot of my recent PESOs have been shot CMI> along the water. I use incident metering since sand and water CMI> reflectivity can fool a camera quite readily. CMI> I have used a Sekonic Studio Deluxe L-398 [no battery, heavy, small], CMI> Sekonic L-358 [flash meter too], Minolta Flashmeter III. All three have CMI> been mentioned in this thread. >> # >> # Thanks. >> # >> # ~Nick David Wright >> # http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ >> CMI> César CMI> Panama City, Florida CMI> -- CMI> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List CMI> [email protected] CMI> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net CMI> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly CMI> above and follow the directions. -- 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.
