John_Nevill
New member
After much deliberation I finally decided to order a Sekonic L-758D lightmeter.
Was it a good move, well I'm not sure yet but here's my thoughts.
Many years ago I use to carry around an analogue meter and then when I moved over to Olympus equipment in the early 80s, I grew accustomed to using the multi spot metering of the OM4.
I continued to work this way until I switched to digital's evaluative metering and thought i'd never look back. Well until now that is.
To be honest I really miss multispot metering and incident metering. I may have also got caught up with the hype but the Sekonic enables one to profile the DR of the dSLR and provide a more human evaluation for exposure assessment.
Furthermore, I tend to use manual more and more on both the 5D and 1D. I was out at the weekend with a group photographing birds of prey and ironically, we all metered off the grass and constantly whispered to each other our settings.
I also see a lot of landscape / wildife photgraphers swear by then. So what's the general opnion on using them for ambient light work?
Do dSLR users take lightmeteing for granted?
So was it a good move to purchase or a frivolous exercise in ebay recycling?
Was it a good move, well I'm not sure yet but here's my thoughts.
Many years ago I use to carry around an analogue meter and then when I moved over to Olympus equipment in the early 80s, I grew accustomed to using the multi spot metering of the OM4.
I continued to work this way until I switched to digital's evaluative metering and thought i'd never look back. Well until now that is.
To be honest I really miss multispot metering and incident metering. I may have also got caught up with the hype but the Sekonic enables one to profile the DR of the dSLR and provide a more human evaluation for exposure assessment.
Furthermore, I tend to use manual more and more on both the 5D and 1D. I was out at the weekend with a group photographing birds of prey and ironically, we all metered off the grass and constantly whispered to each other our settings.
I also see a lot of landscape / wildife photgraphers swear by then. So what's the general opnion on using them for ambient light work?
Do dSLR users take lightmeteing for granted?
So was it a good move to purchase or a frivolous exercise in ebay recycling?