The video is incorrect. The image shows the fc reading of 320 being lined up to the red H, not the black triangle as it should be. The red H is for high slide use which isn't in the meter. There's no way your exposure combinations on the bottom of the meter (1/60th @ f-22 for instance) are going to work in 320fc of light with 400 ISO.
Make sure you use the black pointer when you don't have the high slide in, and the red pointer when you do have the high slide in. They use the red high slide for both in this video and that is incorrect.
super great video,,now i know how to work my meter,i have this meter and didn't know what to do with it,,,now i can meter with it,,,greeeeaaaat, thnx so much,,
I've been reading the manual for Sekonic's L398 and it says to point the dome to the camera for incidental light metering. Even if you do this, it would give me different readings accordingly to the place of the subject I would be scanning (brighter or darker). Should I take multiple readings and make an average and see what's the exposure values for that average? What about if the subject has many lights and shadows? For outside distant subjects (landscapes, middleground buildings, people in a scenery...) the manual says to take a reading from camera position (I don't know if this means just a few meters from the camera and pointing towards it or just paralel to the ground catching light from the environment), to take another reading pointing directly to the sun and to do the average. The only situation in which the manual says to point the dome towards the light source is with lumidisc on, from the subject perspective, to measure incidence of one light a time, for contrast calculation. In addition, it says to use the lumigrid near the subject, pointing towards it, to read reflective ligh. Is that the way light meters inside cameras work, they just meter reflective light? How should I use this afterall?
THIS VIDEO IS WRONG!!!!!!!!The image shows the fc reading of 320 being lined up to the red H, not the black triangle as it should be. The red H is for high slide use which isn't in the meter I MADE A CORRECT VIDEO TO REPLACE THIS DEFECTIVE WRONG VIDEO :)
Link to video please? (You have way too many videos on your channel to easily navigate and I can't search for keywords within a user's channel. Also, do you know of a video tutorial for using the direct reading slides? Thanks!
This video is incorrect for light meter readings. Refer to the instructions that came with the light meter or download the instructions (as I did) from the Sekonic site. Further comments will confirm. It's a good meter if you follow the correct instructions....not from this video.
The video is incorrect. The image shows the fc reading of 320 being lined up to the red H, not the black triangle as it should be. The red H is for high slide use which isn't in the meter. There's no way your exposure combinations on the bottom of the meter (1/60th @ f-22 for instance) are going to work in 320fc of light with 400 ISO.
Jeff Winch You are absolutely correct. Anyone who's learning, PLEASE take note. Thanks Jeff, nice catch.
+Jeff Winch I was about to write (more or less) the same. Then, thankfully, I saw your comment. Well done, thanks
+Jeff Winch I thought i was going fuckin mad...
+Kreepinhedfuk I was thinking the same thing! I replayed it 5x thinking I need to stop lighting up ;)
+Ron Wolfe Haha yeh...I was yelling at the thing cursing it!
I have the Sekonic C-340 and these instructions coincide perfectly with older models, great video
Make sure you use the black pointer when you don't have the high slide in, and the red pointer when you do have the high slide in. They use the red high slide for both in this video and that is incorrect.
super great video,,now i know how to work my meter,i have this meter and didn't know what to do with it,,,now i can meter with it,,,greeeeaaaat, thnx so much,,
I've been reading the manual for Sekonic's L398 and it says to point the dome to the camera for incidental light metering. Even if you do this, it would give me different readings accordingly to the place of the subject I would be scanning (brighter or darker). Should I take multiple readings and make an average and see what's the exposure values for that average? What about if the subject has many lights and shadows? For outside distant subjects (landscapes, middleground buildings, people in a scenery...) the manual says to take a reading from camera position (I don't know if this means just a few meters from the camera and pointing towards it or just paralel to the ground catching light from the environment), to take another reading pointing directly to the sun and to do the average. The only situation in which the manual says to point the dome towards the light source is with lumidisc on, from the subject perspective, to measure incidence of one light a time, for contrast calculation. In addition, it says to use the lumigrid near the subject, pointing towards it, to read reflective ligh. Is that the way light meters inside cameras work, they just meter reflective light? How should I use this afterall?
How do you use this light meter with variable neutral density filters attached to the front of the camera lens?
THIS VIDEO IS WRONG!!!!!!!!The image shows the fc reading of 320 being lined up to the red H, not the black triangle as it should be. The red H is for high slide use which isn't in the meter
I MADE A CORRECT VIDEO TO REPLACE THIS DEFECTIVE WRONG VIDEO :)
Link to video please? (You have way too many videos on your channel to easily navigate and I can't search for keywords within a user's channel. Also, do you know of a video tutorial for using the direct reading slides? Thanks!
Link please! :)
This is the link to his video: ua-cam.com/video/MrRJKeO1erA/v-deo.html
What the computer dial? I don't see a black pointer on the meter anywhere either.
Starting @ about 2:14, video and speaker do not the same thing :( Totally confusing false video.
This video is incorrect for light meter readings. Refer to the instructions that came with the light meter or download the instructions (as I did) from the Sekonic site. Further comments will confirm. It's a good meter if you follow the correct instructions....not from this video.
Thank you.
Are we in the past?
Nice video... Thank you...
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Oh oh - Looks like this girlie is obviously not the brightest candle on the cake ;-)
The video is WRONG!!!
Seriously, the least accurate
tutorial.