Lightmeter: An app for that!

john_van_v

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I am certain that iphones have cameras, so presumably they measure exposure (just a hunch).

I would actually buy one if there was a light meter app.
 
Now that I think about it, nearly all phones can be flashed, and nearly all of them have cameras. Perhaps there is code that can run the camera as a light meter.

I have resorted to using my Kodak c875 for light metering, as the computer does a really good job, but the Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon only opens to f2.8 --respectable lens that it is(!)-- making photography difficult.

BTW, it lives. I hadn't seen it in the stores on Kodaks so I assumed it went belly-up, and said so on RFF.

But no, still on the Kodaks, and presumably the sensor Kodak made for the Leica will migrate behind a variogon so we can take Leica quality picts for a hundred bucks! Oooo, the feeling :)
 
App Store - Photography - Lightmeter

Ambertation - $2.99

Only works on an iPhone 3G-S
 
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Uh .... wouldn't using a small, handheld meter be better? Much more flexible, I would think.
 
john_van_v said:
I am certain that iphones have cameras, so presumably they measure exposure (just a hunch).

I would actually buy one if there was a light meter app.
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I prefer a dedicated external light meter. My iPod (Touch) is, in my opinion, too fragile for field use. I certainly would not take it to the places I go when I go out to take photographs.
 
I found a tiny GE lightmeter in the styro noodles from a camera I bought, and it works. It has dials with f stops on them, so I calibrate it with my kodak c875 point-and-shoot at the beginning of the day, and just adjust the f stops.

Night shooting seems to be a case of do what you can, w/o over exposing faces if there are strong lights around.
 
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