If you’ve got an iPhone 3Gs this might be another one of those must have photography apps. Reportedly it doesn’t work with the 3G.
How Does it Work?
After you took a picture of the scene using LightMeter, you will get back to the “Exposure Dial”-View you know from PhotoBuddy. The dial will be preset with the measured exposure. Underneath the dial you’ll see exposure value for your photo. Select any value ou would like to keep fixed on the selector underneath the dial and change the other settings to your liking. The value (iso, shutter or f-stop) you just selected will be recalculated to preserve the exposure you just measured.
Sounds simple enough to me but also a bit of a pain in the butt considering we almost all shoot digital now anyway and it’s just as easy to muck around a bit with our manual settings or spin the “exposure compensation wheel of fury”. There is a reason that most photographers don’t carry lightmeters with them anymore… Cuz they don’t need em.
The app will set you back $2.99 and is available in the appstore now. What do you guys think?
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4 Comments at "Do we Need an iPhone Lightmeter App?"
Great – I’ll sell my lightmeter now =)
if it worked with strobes it would be brilliant, but I don’t see that happening.
What Brett said. The only time I use my lightmeter these days is for strobes so if it could do that — and interface with a pocket wizard
, I’d buy it and sell my lightmeter.
I don’t think many of today’s photographers know how to use a light meter. They just shoot and chimp – and fix it in Photoshop if they were off.
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