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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 826308" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p>All right... Needa gets a respite today, no more food photos for the moment! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite17" alt=":LOL:" title="Laugh :LOL:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":LOL:" /> <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤭" title="Face with hand over mouth :face_with_hand_over_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f92d.png" data-shortname=":face_with_hand_over_mouth:" /></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>The photographer’s forgotten companions</strong></p><p></p><p>For many photographers, the standalone light meter symbolizes accessories of bygone days. No one uses them today, even though the chief reason why they were used in the past is still there (measuring incident light instead of the reflected one). Some portrait pros, some studio pros, probably still use one, unless they just “play it by ear”, shoot first and then assess the results on the back screen of their camera, or the screen of their portable computer if they shoot tethered –forgetting that what the camera sends there is a JPEG and not the actual RAW image they have just taken... Some directors of photography in the feature film industry, too...</p><p></p><p>That is why I will never cease to congratulate companies that still manufacture them and keep developing new and better models. Japan’s Sekonic Corp. arguably makes the best light meters there are, and I have two of them: one Studio Deluxe III which I acquired years ago and that works the old-fashioned, analog way, without any batteries nor any kind of power, and the new L-858D, which does absolutely everything in light metering and flash metering, and which I use routinely in the studio to balance the light between multiples sources. It can even talk to my Phottix studio strobes and trigger them remotely to measure illumination.</p><p></p><p>For both photos: Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm ƒ/1.8 S “Nifty Fifty” lens, Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. The L-858D is a composite shot made up of 10 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the camera, while the Studio Deluxe III needed only 7 exposures. Stacks processed with Helicon Focus. For the L-858D, I also had to composite two shots: one with strobes firing to light the device, and one in the dark with just the screen illuminated.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]412359[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]412357[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 826308, member: 53455"] All right... Needa gets a respite today, no more food photos for the moment! :LOL: 🤭 [B]The photographer’s forgotten companions[/B] For many photographers, the standalone light meter symbolizes accessories of bygone days. No one uses them today, even though the chief reason why they were used in the past is still there (measuring incident light instead of the reflected one). Some portrait pros, some studio pros, probably still use one, unless they just “play it by ear”, shoot first and then assess the results on the back screen of their camera, or the screen of their portable computer if they shoot tethered –forgetting that what the camera sends there is a JPEG and not the actual RAW image they have just taken... Some directors of photography in the feature film industry, too... That is why I will never cease to congratulate companies that still manufacture them and keep developing new and better models. Japan’s Sekonic Corp. arguably makes the best light meters there are, and I have two of them: one Studio Deluxe III which I acquired years ago and that works the old-fashioned, analog way, without any batteries nor any kind of power, and the new L-858D, which does absolutely everything in light metering and flash metering, and which I use routinely in the studio to balance the light between multiples sources. It can even talk to my Phottix studio strobes and trigger them remotely to measure illumination. For both photos: Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm ƒ/1.8 S “Nifty Fifty” lens, Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. The L-858D is a composite shot made up of 10 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the camera, while the Studio Deluxe III needed only 7 exposures. Stacks processed with Helicon Focus. For the L-858D, I also had to composite two shots: one with strobes firing to light the device, and one in the dark with just the screen illuminated. [ATTACH type="full"]412359[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]412357[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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