A true digital light meter, Sekonic – L758DR

If you are a digital photographer and binned your lightmeter, when you realised you could get an accurate exposure data from your camera, far more than was available from your light meter that you used with your film cameras. That relationship you had between film, light meter and camera, which you understood perfectly but still had to clip test to be sure, effectively went in the bin when your digital camera arrived.

Sekonic, the perfect match maker have brought that relationship back. Simply put, you shoot an image, plug your meter into your computer and profile it so it knows exactly what the chip in your camera is reading. This is the first time that a light meter has been able to give you accurate data about what your chip is reading.

The basic outline is that you shoot a 25 patch grey card under even lighting of which you are about to shoot, flash or daylight load that captured image into the Sekonic software and plug in your light meter. It will work out how accurate your sensor is reading that card across the 25 grey tones and when you take a reading it will show you a reading based on these results. This enables your meter to accurately show where you are clipping your shadows or highlights, and can do this from a number of light sources. You can also profile up to 3 cameras, or a camera under 3 different lighting conditions.