Not one of the current ones then
I wouldn't worry about RR's in the US as very soon you may get help not to buy oneThe unlucky people who got their gas pedal stuck on the Rainbow Bridge into Canada in 2023, who took flight in their vehicle, culminating in a ball of fire, were driving a 2022 Bentley Flying Spur.
Don't be adanger to my financial well being.enough isenough... they also make impressive spectrometers like the Sekonic C-800-U. Just saying ;-)
Would recommend you check the firmware version for updates; there were known gremlins over a large batch of these meters with the touchscreen sensitivity.
My weapon of choice is the Sekonic L758D (also has flash analysis), discontinued years ago (last firmware update 2016) but amazingly ever-reliable in all the conditions I habitually step into or out of! Touch screens on light/colour meters can be a PITA if/when the lightmeter is for example dangling on your chest while you're working away behind the camera; this can movement can screw the readings around erratically.
I wouldn't worry about RR's in the US as very soon you may get help not to buy one
pentaxuser
I wouldn't worry about RR's in the US as very soon you may get help not to buy one
pentaxuser
Couldn't have said it better.Careful Pete, you may be straying into the forbidden Politics topic!
Mike
Hmm, my butler handles all that sort of business, I'm sure the old chap can work something out.
Good heavens, NO!
the best part of it is that it measures the flash duration time. This way I found out that my studio strobe has an exposure time of 1/350s(a bit slow to freeze all action ) and that my newly aquired Nikon SB20 has only a very brief exposure time of 1/23,000s(fast enough to freeze any moton in the studio). It's a bit geeky but worth knowing!
Couldn't have said it better.
But I do wonder who Pete is.
Yes I am wondering the same, Mat,t about who Pete is. Incidentally and for anyone of us here who has the financial heft I was simply stating what I have heard from someone who appears to have the necessary clout on tariffs that such things are very likely on RRs. I was not making a political comment about the rights or wrongs. Simply givíng information that may be valuable to those of us contemplating a luxury foreign-built car such as RRs in the very near future
pentaxuser
Well when you have money for the RR then the tariff doesn't matter.
The unlucky people who got their gas pedal stuck on the Rainbow Bridge into Canada in 2023, who took flight in their vehicle, culminating in a ball of fire, were driving a 2022 Bentley Flying Spur.
Luckily, you are unlikely to experience anything so final or dramatic from a light meter.
Bentley has been owned by Volkswagen since 1988. Rolls Royce has been owned by B.MW since 2003 and it strikes me that the brutalistc look of some of their current Rolls Royce models look more like WW 2 Tiger Tanks.
I don't like the look of modern cars! But the 2020s decade is at least more attractive than the 2010s, in my opinion.
I use the Sekonic L-758DR which is the 858's predecessor and an excellent meter which I found to agree perfectly with the Pentax digital spotmeter that I used for about 15 years. The 758 uses 1 rather expensive (about $5) 3-volt Lithium 123 battery which is a little harder to find than the 2 1.5 volt AA batteries for the 858 but I'm not going to trade-up for one.
Irony that if the Sekoni L758DR and the Pentax Spotmeter are perfect they should not agree perfectly. The Sekonic should read about 1/6 stop higher.
and why would that be?
Because Pentax is calibrated to K14 and Sekonic K12.5.
I see; How about Sekonic and Gossen?
I couldn't find the information on the Gossen. Also Gossen on some of their meters have direct readout of the luminance cd/m^2 and doesn't show how to convert between EV @ ISO 100 to Cd/m^2. For a K14 meter EV0@ISO100 is 0.14 Cd/m^2 and for K12.5 then it's 0.125 Cd/m^2. I know Minolta and Pentax use K14 and Sekonic uses K12.5.
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