the Sekonic L-508 is a wonderful, general-purpose light meter. however, as reported by many, the ambient light metering is a half- stop to full-stop underexposing. also, it does not do as good a job in flash, and flash/ambient metering scenarios as the Minolta Flashmeter V. still, it is a very nice meter once it is set up to measure accurately.

search the archives, for my assessment on its flash metering, memory applications, user-interface, and workarounds for some of its limitations. it is the swiss-army knife of meters, and it does a good job for most non-flash applications.