Forest_rain
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I'm a little bit OCD but...
I just got a Sekonic L-208 in the mail, and it had this warning label on it. I'm not really worried about the DEHP, it seems like some sort of plastic, but how is this exposing me to lead? I've never seen this label before. How safe are these light meters to handle and use? I have no idea what sort of chemical components they use.
P65 warning definition -
"level of exposure that would cause no more than 1 extra case of cancer in 100,000 people over a 70-year lifetime. So a compound doesn’t have to be labeled if a person exposed to the substance at the expected level for 70 years is estimated to have less than a 1 in 100,000 chance of getting cancer due to that exposure."
I just got a Sekonic L-208 in the mail, and it had this warning label on it. I'm not really worried about the DEHP, it seems like some sort of plastic, but how is this exposing me to lead? I've never seen this label before. How safe are these light meters to handle and use? I have no idea what sort of chemical components they use.
P65 warning definition -
"level of exposure that would cause no more than 1 extra case of cancer in 100,000 people over a 70-year lifetime. So a compound doesn’t have to be labeled if a person exposed to the substance at the expected level for 70 years is estimated to have less than a 1 in 100,000 chance of getting cancer due to that exposure."
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Rayt
Nonplayer Character
That’s just California nonsense. Practically everything we buy from CA has this label. Another well meaning but poorly executed law. Go into a building in CA and likely the warning will be on the door.
Beemermark
Veteran
Every product known to man will cause cancer in California.Don't take your light meter to California and you'll be OK.
Dan Daniel
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Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
There is probably lead-based solder used on the circuitry inside. Won't hurt you unless you take it apart and handle the circuit boards, and even then there's so little lead that you'd have to eat the circuit board for it to make you sick. As others have said, it is a silly law in CA that requires a warning label if something has even a miniscule amount of lead, even if it is impossible for a user to come into contact with it.