Sekonic Light Meter with both Reflective and Incident (Spot and Bulb)

braxus · Oct 9, 2021

What models of the Sekonic that had both spot meter reflective readings (that also offered averaging several spot readings), as well as incident readings using the white bulb (including options for flash use)?

abruzzi · Oct 9, 2021

I have an L-508. It’s both a 1-5 degree spot meter or an nice dent meter. It doesn’t average for you (at least I’m pretty sure it doesn’t) but it has two memories, so I usually take a darkest reading and a brightest reading, and put them in memory, then I usually take a reading of the subject, and the meter shows all three points on the aperture sale at the bottom of the screen, and I can use the dial to change shutter speed, which moves the three points up or down the aperture scale.

braxus · Oct 9, 2021

BrianShaw said:
I use a Sekonic L-558. It’s heavy and big and does every form of metering imaginable. I’d be lost without it. You can’t go wrong with a meter in this series.

So this is another option.

BrianShaw · Oct 9, 2021

braxus said:
So this is another option.

Or the L-778, which is a newer model.

Sirius Glass · Oct 9, 2021

Sekonic L-308 it also has a flash meter

braxus · Oct 9, 2021

There is a L-508 used at my local store, so I've asked her to bring it in for me. She seems to think it does averaging. I downloaded the manual to be sure.

BrianShaw · Oct 9, 2021

braxus said:
There is a L-508 used at my local store, so I've asked her to bring it in for me. She seems to think it does averaging. I downloaded the manual to be sure.

It does. 3 readings of incident and reflective spot; 10 flash readings.

The L-558, etc hold more in memory but I’d have to look up how many. Three is generally sufficient so it might work well for you.

braxus · Oct 9, 2021

Being the 558 is over $600 used on Ebay right now, and the 508 she is getting for me is $229, I think I'll be happy with the 508. A 858D-U is close to 800, but thats current model.

BrianShaw · Oct 9, 2021

Yes, I remember paying around $500 quite a while ago… maybe 10 years. It hurt only once.

That seems like a reasonable price.

MattKing · Oct 9, 2021

If it is at either Kerrisdale or Beau, they also usually provide a short warranty on used (but not always consignment ) sales too

braxus · Oct 9, 2021

Good to know Matt. I'll try it out when Im able to pick it up.

BrianShaw · Oct 9, 2021

Bring a fresh battery with you!

craigclu · Oct 9, 2021

I use and trust my L-718. I also have a spot meter but the L-718 covers that duty pretty well and dedicated spot meter doesn't get much use (Minolta Spotmeter F).

wiltw · Oct 10, 2021

The L-508 zoom allows it to meter 1 degree - 4 degree spot. Nice!

GLS · Oct 20, 2021

There's the L-758D too. The last version to have all the bells and whistles while still retaining physical buttons/dials for everything.

Sekonic Light Meter with both Reflective and Incident (Spot and Bulb)

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