Your Favorite light meter app?

Your Favorite light meter app?

  • myLightMeter

    Votes: 20 31.7%

  • Lux

    Votes: 11 17.5%

  • Pocket Light Meter

    Votes: 17 27.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 23.8%
  • Total voters
    63
myLightMeter pro on iOS

I have been using it for at least a year and I like it better than PLM or Lux. It consistently gives me good results. I find it to be dependable and have a fairly well designed UI.
 
Interersting article comparing some Apps, conclusion for the TLDNR brigade (too long did not read)

https://www.dial.de/en/blog/article...artphones-suitable-for-measuring-illuminance/

The results prove that serious measurement of illuminance is only possible with professional hardware. This has a V(λ)-adjusted sensor which ensures that evaluation of the incident radiation is performed according to the brightness sensitivity curve of the human eye in daylight. In addition, a cos-true evaluation is important, that means that a weighting of the incident radiation is performed according to the angle of incidence on the sensor. Smartphones can do neither the one nor the other, since otherwise their original function would not be guaranteed.
It is not the app manufacturers' intention that a smartphone should replace a professional luxmeter. The fact that some apps work with so-called calibration functions sounds professional and smart but unfortunately it is often not possible to set the value accurately. Even if it is possible, the benefit is very small since the values outside the calibrated value are subject to extreme fluctuations. Even when using the same app in structurally identical smartphones different measuring results are achieved.
Therefore apps are unfortunately not really of any great assistance for measuring illuminance and not even any use to obtain a general idea of the illuminance value. On the contrary: They lead the user in the completely wrong direction.

I gave up on Lux, which I found simple, when it agreed with me 9/10 times so I stopped asking it and wasting time, if in doubt bracket.
 
myLIGHTMETER Pro

I like the two different interface options, the ability to set lenses (to limit wide open aperture), the ability to set offsets/calibrations, limits for higher shutter speed and F stop, and the ability to set EV as absolute or referenced to ISO. Also does averaging but I haven't really used that function.

Shawn
 
Peter Jennings said:
myLightMeter pro on iOS

I have been using it for at least a year and I like it better than PLM or Lux. It consistently gives me good results. I find it to be dependable and have a fairly well designed UI.
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I believe that one and LightMeterW are developed by the same person. I use LightMeterW and Pocket Light Meter most, when I use the iPhone as a meter ... I much prefer using a "real" light meter, however. I have a few others; the metering apps I find most useful are the ones targeting specifically pinhole camera exposure, since pinhole cameras generally need a range in f/number settings that is beyond most handheld meters' capability.

G
 
Peter Jennings said:
myLightMeter pro on iOS

I have been using it for at least a year and I like it better than PLM or Lux. It consistently gives me good results. I find it to be dependable and have a fairly well designed UI.
Click to expand...

I am using the same with my iPhone XR. It works well. It was cheap.
 
I have been using Pocket Light Meter for years with no problems; always found it accurate. I usually meter off the palm of my hand.



Recently, I have been playing with Lightmatic and LightMe. Both seem to work equally well, and are new designs. Pocket Light Meter is very much pre-iOS 7 in style.
 
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