Light Meter Experience
I was a beginner like you without any knowledge
of what a light meter is all about. After some
research through books and photo magazines
(there is no Internet yet in the 1970's), no such joyful
thing like photo forum, ....weeeeeee..!!!!!....so cool
nowadays for all of you youngkees.
The Weston Master V is the most popular among
professional photographers at that time. I went for it
and paid S$65/- which was a very high price at that
time.
Just two years down the road, I knew the meter is
of not much use to me, so I save up for the next two
years and got myself a Gossen Luna Six which cost me
S$215/- which was also a high price to pay at that time
in the mid 1970's. But I am willing to pay for a good
light meter to help me in my pursue of learning photography.
Now with all these new stuff like the Sekonic L-608 and
the L508, h'mmmm... they are far more advanced that
some of my older meters such as the Minolta Meter III and IV.
For most beginners and even the more advanced amateurs,
the current Sekonic L508 at around S$500/- is a really
good buy.
The Minolta Meter V would cost you another $300/- more.
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So they say:
If your pictures aren't good enough,
you aren't close enough.
So reading light sensitivity requires
the act of commitment and creative
imagination of the part of the aspirising
photographer.