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Portable used light meter recommendations - affordable, neck lanyard friendly, reflected light

On portable meters...GOSSEN SIXTOMAT digital has been my companion for the last 20+ years. Feather-light.
 
...and the old Luna Pro...

 
The Luna Pro SBC only has that name in the USA. It is known as the Profisix in the rest of the world. It was the successor to the older, mercury battery powered Luna Pro meters.
The Luna Pro F only has that name in the USA. It is known as the Lunasix F in the rest of the world.
The US distributer for Gossen mandated the name changes for the US market.
There are a lot of US badged meters around the rest of the world.
Here in Canada authorized dealers sold the Profisix and the Lunasix F.
FWIW, my Luna Pro F (bought used) is of similar weight and slightly larger than my older, black Luna Pro meter.
 
...and here they are side-by-side...
 
If you carry a phone with you then youve already got a lightmeter. $5 app and youve got reflected incident and a spotmeter
 
Craig75 said:
If you carry a phone with you then youve already got a lightmeter. $5 app and youve got reflected incident and a spotmeter
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Really?



I can't figure out how to install the app.
 
I tried a iPhone exposure meter app once. Maybe they are better now. At the time it would not always give the same reading twice. Hard to compensate with an ISO tweak on that one. Also, it downloaded ads to my phone. So, fail right there. In fact it was that iPhone app that caused me to get a late model Sekonic spot meter.
 

I use this (but on android)

https://apps.apple.com/gb/developer/david-quiles/id578971109

And its bang on against my minolta iv. A phone meter should be deadly accurate. No pattern with diminishing readings towards the edge of the pattern. Fully adjustable zoom. A complete matrix reading. Its going to depend on who the wrote the software for sure but i think this app is top quality (im sure there are others just as good or better).
 
The quality of these apps probably depends heavily on the qualities of the phone.
It should also be noted that the inclusion of an incident metering function will definitely be hardware dependent.
 
No, the small grey meter I'm referring to is labeled "Luna Pro" with the split center meter ensign includes "SBC".
MattKing said:
Really?



I can't figure out how to install the app.
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You put your finger in it and twist in the binary; it takes awhile.
 
It looks like I've got hold the wrong end of the stick, so disregard my use of the Luna Pro SBC as a smaller alternative to the Luna Pro F.

I was thinking of the Luna Pro, old version, which is a great meter and hacks with the diode for the newer SR44 batteries.

Thanks all, for setting me straight.
 
MattKing said:
The quality of these apps probably depends heavily on the qualities of the phone.
It should also be noted that the inclusion of an incident metering function will definitely be hardware dependent.
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The phone should be pretty minor in it all as they will all have at least 1/2.55 size sensor. For the meter you dont care about image resolution or lens or whatever else. Youre just using that sensor as a light sensitive recorder. I only ever use the bottom of the range Samsungs ($200) and that always matched my minolta. How far you can take the spotmeter with cameras that use multi lenses in the phone i dont know as i ve never own multi lens phone.

The incident side just uses the front facing camera.
 
eli griggs said:
Thanks all, for setting me straight.
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What would Apug be without the confusion caused by the Gossen designations. Already confusing are the original names, but importer Berkey then made a total mess from it (from todays internet perspective).

If nothing goes, this issue will always be topical at Apug...
 
Gossen Pilot. Selenium cell but I rarely, if ever, see a bad cell in light meters. Small and cheap.
 
I have a lot of meters and amongst the selenum ones many are dead or very insensitive.
 
Gossen Lunastar F2 does all you want plus flash metering but is hard to find for $50. You get what you pay for it!
 


Then do not look at the Graflex Graphic product naming.
 
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