When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We have a lot of tools to measure exposure, but to me, the light meter is the simplest and truest ...

Gauging the amount of light that's in a scene is one of the most fundamental and important skills for a photographer to have. Knowing how to set the exposure on a camera will produce a picture that's ...

Photometers or light meters are radiometers that include a filter and photodiode and responds based on the average human eye: the CIE 1924 luminosity function V λ. However, the light sensitive diode ...

Let's talk light meters. I was going to put this in the accessories thread, but it seems to have expanded in size so doing it's own thread. So, I've got an old analog light meter with 15 & 5 degrees ...

In the days of old, back when television was solely recorded on a thing called “film,” the cinematographer was known as a kind of fortune-teller/ magician who could mysteriously read the light in the ...

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Avid photographers know lighting is important. Often times, those dedicated to getting the perfect picture have expensive meters meant to allow them insight on which is the best exposure and filter ...

Every new camera sold today has some sort of light meter built in. Its purpose is to read the scene you’re composing and, if you’re shooting on the dreaded “Auto” mode, tell the camera how to ...

Dip into the complex metering modes on a modern digital camera and it’s easy to forget that photographers once relied on dedicated handheld devices to meticulously measure light before firing the ...

The iPhone democratized photography and disrupted the video and camera industry. Now a new product that plugs into the iPhone’s Lightning port aims to replace an important photographer’s tool — the ...