light meter

[pvdhaar]

With the M4, I completely rely on the sunny 16 rule. When I've got the Bessa-T along, I guess exposure first, and then confirm with the built-in meter; but I'm always amazed about how splendid sunny16 works..

It's only indoors under artificial lighting that guessing exposure is difficult.. I eyeball and add three stops to my guess to compensate for the adaptive nature of the eye.. works as a charm.

 

[tmfabian]

A friend of mine that uses the seconic meter and it even has a little foot that lets it slide into the flash mount area, he seems to like it.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/200224-REG/Sekonic_401208_L_208_Twin_Mate_Meter.html

 

[MichaelHarris]

Hi sem and welcome. Your English is fine, don't worry. I'm America and my English is horrible. I also use an M3, it's a great camera. When I walk around with a light meter I use the Sekonic L-208 TWINMATE. It's very small and about 100 dollars US.

 

[venchka]

Welcome sem!

I use an M5.

In fact, I'm using the M5 to meter for the 4x5 Speed Graphic. Great meter!

OK, Ok! I also use a Weston Master V, Gossen Luna Pro and Minolta Auto Meter IV F.

 

[DaveSee]

sem welcome to the forum and your English is excellent! 🙂 I'm with Pherdi above: the Quantum Calculight XP. Measures incident and reflected, will read to -7EV at 100ISO (i.e. it will give you a reading in the dark), about US$60.00 on eBay without the batteries.

Welcome and read your post just fine... and you'll find that if what you post is unclear, many gentle folks here to help sort out the issues!

I've an M4, and use a meter to grab a range of light values before I shoot, and if out in the light/near light of day, "Sunny 16" as others have posted. I have both the Gossen LunaPro and Calculight meters: as Peter mentions--and why I prefer--the Calculight, it reads very low light levels. What he did not mention(and only with the XP version), you can press and hold the reading button to "scan" a range of values within a venue... and the meter is fast.

I have other cameras with in-built meters, but tend to my hand-held range of readings most of the time, for comfort/habit.

FWIW, most Calculights(now long out of production) seem to have been sold East of the Mississippi(that's effectively Eastern USA), so if you're looking for one, try camera shops in the Eastern US too. Oh, and although not produced, you can still email folks at Quantum if you have questions.

hth+rgds,
Dave