Digital Photography Tutorials - Light Meter!

A light meter is a device use to measure light. In digital photography, these meters are used to determine the proper exposure of a photography.

There are basic two methods of metering light incident metering and reflecti metering. The cameras built-in metering uses reflecti metering.

For studio work, you will need an incident meter.

With all cameras have built-in meters, you might think what is the use of purchasing an additional one. Well, there are more advance devices out there that have many benefits such as balancing the amount of light coming from a studio setup.

Sophiticated and more advanced light meters such as the Sekonic L-358 and Sekonic L-758 can help improve your photos even more by configuring these devices to get the correct reading and exposures for your photographs.

List below are very good video tutorials for light meter which demostrates what light meter are and how to use them.

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