A Hipster meter for your Iphone

[Mainecoonmaniac]

If you ask the people that work there

You live in Utah, you are the NSA

NSA stands for "No such agency".

 

[Chan Tran]

For iphone light meter app, which sensor does it use to measure the light?

 

[ambaker]

For iphone light meter app, which sensor does it use to measure the light?

I have Fotometer Pro. The rear camera is used for reflected light. The front camera for incident light. Which makes sense, as it is the only way to see the meter while you are taking the readings.


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[Richard S. (rich815)]

I have a light meter app, and it's always spot on and agreed with my Sekonic in good light.
It's good in case you ever lose battery power mid-roll.

Me too. Works great.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

But, but...it uses the cloud.

Just one more reason to never ever have one. Thanks!

 

[David Brown]

I was seriously considering trying his VC LED head, but asked him (offline) about the possibility of a non-smartphone interface. He was pretty adamant that if you wanted one of his heads, you were going to use his Bluetooth smartphone interface. He seemed a bit enamored over the novelty of writing software, I think.

I lost that novelty decades ago, but he appeared more interested in the software angle than the light source angle. All my attempts (and everyone else's in that thread he started) to convince him to offer a non-smartphone interface went nowhere. So I never pursued it any further and so no sale was made.

Another case of the high tech tail wagging the dog...

Ken

Yeah, I was part of that, too.

I have an iPhone, use it and actually take pictures with it. But using it as a light meter or a timer seems more trouble than it's worth. YMMV

 

[E. von Hoegh]

snip* Quit hating on technology for the sake of being contrary.

Hating on technology? Hardly.

I freely admit that I loathe cellphones and those who use them inappropriately - in the woods, in the theater, texting as they walk down the sidewalk, in short everydamnplace they can get service. I'm also disgusted with gadgetry for gadgetry's sake and a lightmeter ap is one example.

Measure light with a lightmeter. Make phone calls on a telephone, preferably one connected to the wall with a wire.

And if you know the name of the SOB who wacked my arm with their sideview mirror as I walked next to the road, because they swerved as they were fiddling with their cellphone, PM me.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

And if you know the name of the SOB who wacked my arm with their sideview mirror as I walked next to the road, because they swerved as they were fiddling with their cellphone, PM me.

Was he driving one of those new-fangled horseless carriages??

 

[Steve Smith]

I don't have an iphone

I don't have any phone which doesn't plug into a socket on the wall. I like going out and being un-contactable.


Steve.

 

[cliveh]

Although I don't have an I-phone, I do have a mobile. This is handy if the car ever breaks down or you loose the wife in Tescos. My mobile phone bill is usually less than £0.10 a month.

 

[JBrunner]

I find it interesting that the more successful I get the less I want to be "empowered by technology". I used to dream of the ultimate smart phone and the fancy car I could buy when I made enough money. Now I'm dreaming of being successful enough to not need a car or a mobile phone. I guess I realized that these things are (to me) the trappings of servitude.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Was he driving one of those new-fangled horseless carriages??

No, she was.

And they went wrong on those things when they put self-starters on them about 1913.

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

I use a smart phone, but the problem is you develop bad habits like constantly checking email or FB. They're handy, but my brain might turn to mush using them.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

I find it interesting that the more successful I get the less I want to be "empowered by technology". I used to dream of the ultimate smart phone and the fancy car I could buy when I made enough money. Now I'm dreaming of being successful enough to not need a car or a mobile phone. I guess I realized that these things are (to me) the trappings of servitude.

To everyone, whether they realise it or not.
"We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends" (Aristotle). The trappings such as fancy cars (payments) and "smart"phones (constant disruption/distraction) destroy leisure and peace of mind.

 

[Sirius Glass]

If they are really smart phones, then they would correct the number that I incorrectly input.

 

[ntenny]

To everyone, whether they realise it or not.
"We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends" (Aristotle). The trappings such as fancy cars (payments) and "smart"phones (constant disruption/distraction) destroy leisure and peace of mind.

This effect is a real problem, but I think it's a mistake to blame the trappings for it, as you rather reliably and prominently do when the topic of cameraphones comes up.

Personally, I clearly gain leisure and peace of mind from having a phone---whether the "smart" aspects are a win over just voice and SMS, I'm not completely sure yet, but SMS works drastically better with a smartphone than it ever did with the old feature phones. Just the time saved in extra trips to the grocery store, because I get the message that says "We need garlic!" while I'm there rather than having to go back for it afterwards, is probably enough to make the device a net win.

I don't find it to be a compulsive source of distraction. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe I got that stuff out of my system when I was a lot younger and computer networks were a novelty. I think you have it backwards, though; humans *find* distractions, and if you take one thing away we'll find them in something else. Hence the perennial series of moral panics over new distractions, going back to at least classical Greece and all sounding much the same in spirit. Our cave-dwelling ancestors no doubt flipped their hirsute lids over how much of a time-wasting distraction this "language" crap was.

-NT

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Some of the comments here might be added to this:

http://xkcd.com/1227/

 

[E. von Hoegh]

This effect is a real problem, but I think it's a mistake to blame the trappings for it, as you rather reliably and prominently do when the topic of cameraphones comes up.

Personally, I clearly gain leisure and peace of mind from having a phone---whether the "smart" aspects are a win over just voice and SMS, I'm not completely sure yet, but SMS works drastically better with a smartphone than it ever did with the old feature phones. Just the time saved in extra trips to the grocery store, because I get the message that says "We need garlic!" while I'm there rather than having to go back for it afterwards, is probably enough to make the device a net win.

I don't find it to be a compulsive source of distraction. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe I got that stuff out of my system when I was a lot younger and computer networks were a novelty. I think you have it backwards, though; humans *find* distractions, and if you take one thing away we'll find them in something else. Hence the perennial series of moral panics over new distractions, going back to at least classical Greece and all sounding much the same in spirit. Our cave-dwelling ancestors no doubt flipped their hirsute lids over how much of a time-wasting distraction this "language" crap was.

-NT

You're correct in that I was not as clear as I should have been. The gadget itself is not responsible, it's our use of it that determines it's influence on our existence.

In the instance I related above, it was someone else's use (misuse) of a gadget which nearly made me into a statistic. I loathed cellphones before that, though.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Some of the comments here might be added to this:

http://xkcd.com/1227/

If you dig around a bit, you can find similar quotes from Greeks and Romans. It's called "the Human Condition".

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

You're correct in that I was not as clear as I should have been. The gadget itself is not responsible, it's our use of it that determines it's influence on our existence.

It's those damn kids, is what it is! ;-)

 

[E. von Hoegh]

It's those @#!*% kids, is what it is! ;-)

I'm pretty sure Socrates said something about those darn wippersnappers!

 

[mark]

Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons

 

[JBrunner]

You're correct in that I was not as clear as I should have been. The gadget itself is not responsible, it's our use of it that determines it's influence on our existence.

In the instance I related above, it was someone else's use (misuse) of a gadget which nearly made me into a statistic. I loathed cellphones before that, though.

For me, that's all beside the point. For most of my life I have needed a phone to be reachable for jobs. I have needed a car to get to those gigs. What freedom in being able to let that go. I might have a phone, but now I can keep it shut off except when I choose. I drive when I choose, not because I must.