Flyfisher1976 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 802 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (7 years 3 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2082 times:
Thanks,
Could you suggest any others that might be a little less $$. I might just get one used, but if I could get one new under $175, that would be better. I don't need lots of features...just good exposures.
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 53 Reply 3, posted (7 years 3 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2055 times:
Quoting Flyfisher1976 (Reply 2): Could you suggest any others that might be a little less $$.
Hmmmmm....not really. The 358 or Minolta IV or V are really the only ones I looked at for digital incident meters. Most of the others are just flash only.
Jeff, do you (or anyone else) have any experience with the 308? As mentioned above, I'm not looking for lots of bells and whistles. If it saves me $75-$100 and gets the same quality exposure, with less features (that I don't need)...then I'm in!
P.S. (&correction to above) The L358 is more like $350-$375/ a little out of my price range.
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 53 Reply 5, posted (7 years 3 months 16 hours ago) and read 1906 times:
It looks like from what I could tell from the ebay ad that it will work just fine. It doesn't have a Pocket Wizard setup, but other then that it should work.
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 53 Reply 8, posted (7 years 3 months 13 hours ago) and read 1881 times:
Quoting Flyfisher1976 (Reply 7): Does the 358 have spot metering? I didn't notice that in the description.
No, that would kind of defeat the purpose of an ambient light meter, you get an incident meter to read light falling on your subject, your camera already reads light reflecting off.........
Flyfisher1976 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 802 posts, RR: 2 Reply 9, posted (7 years 3 months 12 hours ago) and read 1874 times:
Quoting JeffM (Reply 8): No, that would kind of defeat the purpose of an ambient light meter, you get an incident meter to read light falling on your subject, your camera already reads light reflecting off.........
This is true...However, I was just thinking of it as a feature that I might need in some other situation in the future. But again, the main purpose is to have a device capable of incident metering. So it sounds like the less expensive model may due the trick and satisfy my budget requirements.
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