Sirius - I just ordered 50 rolls of film - so I'm doing my bit there.
My son was shocked when I told him I use my "handy" as a light meter more often than as a phone. I'm too old to understand how anyone can walk and text at the same time - I'd fall over.
I'll try the fixed app today.
I don't walk around staring at it either. But it sometimes saves bringing a laptop when traveling as I can field and reply to email with the phone. (And though retired I am entangled in some group activities where that is very useful.) I particularly like being able to maintain contact with friends and family via email or text rather than playing tag with attempted voice calls. The GPS/map functions have proven quite useful in navigating unfamiliar cities on foot, etc. In truth, I hardly ever make (or receive) ordinary phone calls with it.
The Big Deal(tm) is that it can play music so you can not only walk around staring at it, you can do so with earphones on so you don't even hear what's about to run you over.The earphones that came with mine are still in the box -- somewhere. There's no music installed on it. I do confess <sniff!> yes <sob!> that I do occasionally take a picture with it. :munch:
And note that I only got one in May 2014, I had to be sure it wasn't a passing fad.
That's fine - for a phone. Voice calls are about the least thing I use mine for. "Phone" is kind of a misnomer. It's really my tiny, always with me, always connected portable computer which just happens to have a VoIP application that lets me make occasional calls too. I almost don't even care about the voice ability.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk and 100% recycled electrons - because I care.
It's digital and you didn't expect it to fail? Bwah ha, ha,ha, ha!
If you're still looking for an iPhone app for metering, another free one that doesn't ask for credit card info is Pocket Light Meter. It too has apertures down to f/512.
That's the one we're talking about. At least, I think so. The name on the icon says "LightMeter" but when you run it it says "Pocket Light Meter."
I installed it so long ago I can't remember any credit card request or not. As long as the company looks legit I don't worry too much about things like that. Never had a problem.
Now I remember - I did buy it as free and liked it enough I bought him a pint.
People I like call me or meet me face to face. No one sends text messages to me because my telephone is set up to not accept text messages.
As did I.
Have any of you done a comparison with a "proper" light meter to determine how reasonably accurate this app is? I use it often, since I don't yet have a real light meter (Gave up my Minolta Flash Meter III many years ago - wish I still had it), but I question its accuracy.
I've not done formal testing with a gray card, but from experience it seems to be within 1/10th of a stop of my Minolta Spotmeter F and my Sekonic L408. Even in extremely low light.
Thank you for that info. What hardware do you have it installed on? That can make a difference to its accuracy, apparently. I use it on my iPhone 5.
Face time?
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