When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We have a lot of tools to measure exposure, but to me, the light meter is the simplest and truest ...

The iPhone democratized photography and disrupted the video and camera industry. Now a new product that plugs into the iPhone’s Lightning port aims to replace an important photographer’s tool — the ...

Luxi is a small diffusion dome that fits securely over your iPhone’s front-facing camera. When attached and used with a light meter app, Luxi will help you determine the best settings for your DSLR or ...

Replay: The apparent convenience of shooting digital has meant that the humble light meter has taken a bit of a popularity hit of late. But as Phil Rhodes writes, they are in fact still one of the ...

Photographers, makers, and Arduino enthusiasts interested in building their very own incident light meter for old meterless mechanical film cameras will surely be intrigued by a project published on ...

With the smartphone becoming steadily more and more ubiquitous, it's even managing to worm it's way into areas of our life where it can replace bits of kit once deemed essential. The light meter is a ...

[Marc] has an old Voigtländer Vito CLR film camera. The camera originally came with an analog light meter built-in. The meter consisted of a type of solar panel hooked up to a coil and a needle. As ...

Light meters, these days, are no longer a mystery: From home-improvement stores to eBay and Amazon you can find have at least a few units available for purchase. An open-source light meter, however, ...

Let's talk light meters. I was going to put this in the accessories thread, but it seems to have expanded in size so doing it's own thread. So, I've got an old analog light meter with 15 & 5 degrees ...

A light meter is a very useful device that finds applications in hospitals, schools, factories, parking lots, passageways, and many more to measure and maintain adequate lighting levels. It is also ...