> On 1 Feb 2025, at 01:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > >>> On Jan 31, 2025, at 1:33 PM, Bob W PDML <pdm...@icloud.com> wrote: >>>> You mentioned using a tiny Sekonic meter in an earlier post - is it an >>>> L-208 Twinmate by any chance? If so are you finding it accurate? I’ve had >>>> one for years, but it now shows 1 EV less than my two other incident >>>> meters, which match each other, so it seems to have drifted out of >>>> calibration somehow and I’ll have to try and redo it. > > […] > > Yes, my tiny Sekonic is an L208 Twinmate. I would say it's pretty accurate on > reflected light, but the incident dome is so small it's hard to get it > pointed accurately enough in that mode so the incident readings vary a bit. > I'd much rather use the Sekonic L-358 for incident readings ... the big dome > makes it much easier to point and much more accurate. It's been my reference > meter for years ... on incident readings, the L-208 tends to read -1.0 to > -0.5 EV lower than the L-358.
I used to have the spot-meter version of the L-358 but I rarely used it because of it size, so when one of the internal things became loose I gave it to a photo charity in the hope that they could repair it and make use of it. My most-used meter is the L-308S, which I like a lot. I’ve just calibrated the L-208 against it, to within about 0.2 EV I reckon. It’s a straightforward procedure, I just watched a couple of YouTube videos and decided even I might be able to do it. I like the L-208 because you can see all the combinations, unlike the L-308s, but it’s easy to dislodge things without noticing. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
