Calibrating Sekonic L 358 Light Meter

I know how to calibrate my flast meter but it changes the reading for ambiant light as well as the flash reading.

Calibrating sekonic l 358 light meter. Boy am i envious. Whether you still shoot film digital or both adjusting the meter is a simple straightforward procedure. Unless you know it is need of calibration don t touch it. As others have said you need to get the manuals and figure out how to adjust the calibration of your meter.

194 90 35 00 shipping mint sekonic l 358 flash master digital light meter w long strap from japan. If you are having exposure problems it is likely not due to the meter. Each lens sensor combination has. Using a sekonic l 358 light meter which is available at adorama mark shows you how to set your light meter to measure in third stop increments that will match the settings on your digital camera set your sync speed and more.

It s simply a rough idea of what your exposures will be. Mouse over to zoom click. And i know it s accurate for ambiant light. A properly adjusted light meter will ensure that you ll get accurate readings for your photographs.

Do we need to calibrate the sekonic l358 light flash meter. Most meters in my case the sekonic l 358 have calibration and compensation features that let you fine tune your meter so you can be within 1 10 stop accuracy to suit your equipment and your eye. Related products at adorama. I was reading online some people were mentioning that it needs to be calibrated as per your camera.

The sekonic l 358 flash master is an advanced yet easy to operate exposure analyzing light meter that incorporates the latest technology in handheld meters. It was correctly calibrated by sekonic to 1 10th of a stop or better. Hello experts i got my new sekonic l358 light flash meter. The l 358 features a retractable incident lumisphere for standard or cosine corrected light readings provides both hemispherical and narrow angle readings.

Discussion in lighting equipment started by sun p nov 7 2009. Mint in box sekonic flash master l 358 light meter from japan 273. Sunny 16 was never meant to be a truly accurate exposure method. Since the difference between what the l 358 reads and what my camera is off is consistantly the same i just make a mental note of how much compensation i need to dial in from the metered reading and go from there.

I just spent almost 300 on a l 358 while you pick up two meters for less than 100.