Light meters - Which of these?: Reveni Labs, Reflxlab, Keks-KM02

[Tin Can]

Perhaps too much Havoc?

I don't have experience with any of them. If I would go with any of them then I'd select one that I do not have to read on the top so that you can read them with minimal movement of the camera. But as I prefer to measure incident light I wouldn't go with one of those after all.



I did that one year on holiday and returned with 10 rolls of Kodachrome that were ruined. Never again.

[Larry Gebhardt]

I did that one year on holiday and returned with 10 rolls of Kodachrome that were ruined. Never again.

Sadly that is true even if you wanted to try it again.

My take on any of these meters is that I would not want to use them even with a hand held camera. I have not had a high success rate with averaging reflective meters when used on a shoe. If they offered an incident mode I think they would be much more useful.

I’m sure they can be made to work and with roll film and static subjects I’d probably bracket any difficult scenes. But without bracketing I’d trust a phone light meter app more. And combined with a gray card you could use then as an inconvenient incident meter.

[Axelwik]

One of the most valuable features of a hand-held meter is it's scale or full readout (on digital)... This becomes a calculator to factor in factors such as filters, other stops, speeds, contrasts etc, where these little shoe meters don't...

Steve K

I can count with my fingers, sometimes even in my head.

[Larry Gebhardt]

I can count with my fingers, sometimes even in my head.

Same, but the simple dials on the Pentax digital spot meter are really useful to me for “seeing” scale of the exposure.

[Drew Wiley]

Those mini coupled meters seem to all have an ill-repute for questionable durability. I don't think I'd want to rely on something that needs to be replaced every few years.

[Duolab123]

I won't be using any of those devices

Ever

I have and use 3 devices

I mostly shoot in my wonderful studio and have a good working DR

Sekonic L-508 Zoom Master Digital

Sekonic Twin mate

Sunny 16

However I shot with no meter 40 years

Using inside the KODAK box printed directions

The old Kodak leaflet that came with the film was perfect. I use old Minolta incident (auto IVF) and rarely a spot meter. Reflective metering is tricky without a spot meter and a gray card (at least for me )