I still use a Gossen Pro F - both flash and ambient, accepts a
proprietary variable angle adapter, display in needle/ circular
adjustable scale, one 9volt battery. Old fashioned but effective.
Some cheap, older lightmeters used leds to indicate the exposure, but
usually were unable to present small differences under 1/2 stop. I had
to use one from Vivitar for a while, and really hated that damned thing.
Still older light meters used no batteries, relying on the output of a
special foto-sensible cell and a precision (for the time) voltmeter. Dad
used them, and they're around, but their output is questionable at least
since 1970 - those samples we have in the house, I understand others are
more reliable.
Using slide film I'd go for incident light readings, trying to evaluate
the shadow/ highlight ratios, and then consult my astral adviser,
usually through some hours of meditation, then multiplied the readings
by the square root of 1, then bracketed like hell.
First time I took my Gossen to a friend's studio, by the time I finished
reading Main and fill light he had made three sample shots and decided
in a fourth aperture - ready to work...
LF
Nick David Wright escreveu:
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
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