Light meters

chrisjlee

There any light meters that have illuminated buttons?

ian408

Lighted buttons or lit display? The Sekonic's have lit displays. Not sure about
the buttons though.

chrisjlee

ian408 wrote:

Lighted buttons or lit display? The Sekonic's have lit displays. Not sure about
the buttons though.

lit buttons. but they probably don't exist because they affect the metering and plus if you use it a lot you should be able to memorize where each buttons are.

i don't have one and I have no clue how to use a light meter.

ian408

So why the question then? Are you looking for a meter?

chrisjlee

ian408 wrote:

So why the question then? Are you looking for a meter?

Yeah I am looking for a lightmeter. I was wondering if button illuminated lightmeters existed. But after posting it I thought about it more and assumed they don't make those because they would come standard on all meters if it did existed.

ian408

Mostly, you want the back light to read it once you've measured. But they
exist. A nice starter is the Sekonic L-358. At about $200, it's got a great
feature set.

Here's a something to read that will help using your meter.

Nikolai

Chris,

chrisjlee wrote:

There any light meters that have illuminated buttons?

I think it's the nature of the beast. Since you're metering light it means there is at least some, therefore you can see the buttons.
And if you can't - then there is pretty much nothing to meter anyway

Jokes aside, they are pretty simplistic devices, you'll learn their butoon layouts in no time. Besides, you can always set the proper mode using some temp light (outside?), and then go to your darkroom and press a single button - how hard could that be?

Just my 0.000002 of the f/stop...