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Advantage over Brick and Mortar stores with regard to sales tax and convenience. Timely delivery at a competitive price.
I often use a set aputure and wish to know the shutter speed. I would give it 5 stars if I could set the unite for A/P in the flash measuring mode. This unite is a great addition to anyone's photography equipment. It works great for standard portrait photography.
Would recommend this flash meter to anyone that shoot with studio strobes.Also a great meter to have to meter flash with ambient light.
Every photographer should have one. Absolutely love my light meter. It makes shooting a million times easier.
My speedlights are going to live in manual mode when there is time to use a light meter from now on.I doubt you can beat the Sekonic L-358 at this price point. When you don't have a light meter you can spend countless hours tweaking the power settings on your strobes or multiple shoe mount flash units to get a few shots right.and when you're done and have packed it all up.the next day, week, month.you have no way to get back to those settings again. But after using this light meter I can honestly say that if there is time and the shots are important I will never rely on iTTL systems ever again. In camera metering has no way of measuring or calculating the light output from studio strobes.
I read a light meter review recently where the reviewer said; "even if you don't think you need a light meter, you do." This is good advice.Three huge advantages come to mind after using this meter once. I've only had this meter a few hours but like so many others have said, I wish I had purchased this a long time ago. iTTL flash results are all over the place, when you meter the light and shoot in manual the results will be 100% predictable 100% of the time. First, it is a tremendous time saver during the shoot and afterwards in post processing, take a light reading, set your camera to what the meter reads and shoot.
TTL, iTTL & all these intelligent flash systems (for shoe mount flash units) still have a place when you are shooting events and there is no time to take light readings. This is a 5 star product, it works great and is reasonably priced. Second, repeatability - even if you are shooting low/high key or going for artistic effects; you can reproduce lighting ratios/scenarios you like easily in the future. Third, better pictures.Having an LCD/preview and histograms are useful but DSLRs, even the most advanced cameras in the world, can not do what a light meter can.
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