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Will I need this to photograph art with a 50 mm?

can i use the spyder color checker instead of x-rite color checker in making custom exposure profile for my pentax camera? If so, which patch of the spyder color checker will I use as my target reference?

How can one change the language from japan to english on my recently purchased L-858D ?

Having a devil of a time trying to find the source of my error in creating a profile for my Pentax K3 Monochrome. Maybe someone can answer? When I import the photos to generate the tone curve for the DTS software, the resulting curve looks OK for the negative EV range. The toe of the curve starts out asymptotic, then rises, rises more sharply, then fairly linear through the mid-range, but where it should flatten out at the shoulder of the curve and become more asymptotic for the brighter EV's, it just remains almost linear to 250 brightness (255?) and then flat. The curve doesn't have a shoulder. It hits the top of the graph and then continues horizontal to the right. If I could grab the curve and drag the entire thing straight down about a stop, then it would look right. I've checked that ISO on camera and meter match. I've captured the incident/reflective readings off the target. One last variable that has puzzled me is the placement of the "plus sign" (+) corner markers on the test images. The Datacolor and Sekonic Target II have markers printed on the target. You just drag the DTS markers to sit over the ones captured in the image. I only have the Sekonic Target I, the one with a white stripe at the top, a black stripe at the bottom, and 7 light-to-dark gray patches in the middle. There are NO corner markers to match up with the software. I hope my description of the curve - normal toe of curve, flat shoulder of curve - suggests something to someone. Much obliged for any ideas.

Sekonic,please video about Landscape Photography,thank you!

My apologies if I missed it, but did he ever say where to point the meter's dome when taking his readings?.....and why?

im confused with exposure...people on you tube try to compare cameras to justify what they bought....they say that say there is a difference between cropped to full frame to large format....if that is true why doesn't the light meter have a button to switch the camera you are using??

good job Andy.

the meter has not helped me understand anything. it just gives me the answer like a hand-held calculator

I want to be like you when I grow up🙌

Why does Sekonic do not recommend rechargeable batteries? As it voids warranty

I shoot with a Nikon D 800 and I shoot auto ISO so how should I set this meter up as far as iso ?

Is this tutorial applicable for sekonic L308?

Just got my 858 w/Godox TX and am so impressed with this implementation. I'm also inclined to believe that Sekonic is the greatest light meter manufacturer in the world, as even now in 2024, there is nothing I could find that offered anything near what the 858 can do. Thank you Sekonic and Godox for this wonderful tool.

This was amazing 👍

Straight to the point, I love it!

Chris Knight is without a doubt the one I've learned most from on UA-cam when it comes to photographic with strobes Thank you so much for another great video!

Sekonic should bring these back. The old school electronics design makes a better product than the new touch screen design imo

If I wanted to be a teacher I would model myself on this guy - forget the internet - easily one of the best teachers I have ever seen - superb session on metering light Chris - thank you.

This is easily one of the best lessons on controlling light I've ever watched. I will absolutely be referencing this again and again.

This is terrific! I love this long-form content with detailed information. Please share more long-form content like this. Chris is terrific photographer and teacher; his choice of recreating Karsh with flash strobes is terrific. Well done--I feel like I learned a few things here. It was cool to see Chris setting up a photo with just a light meter and no test shots.

Great content! I'd love to know what filter did Chris use?! Anyone any idea?

so which filter where you actually using Chris ?

hi! great video! as profoto user, to use L-858D we have to trigger like him with a second remote (like him, the one in his left hand)?

f11 is a commercial zone of focus ........required to reach a usable zone of focus. FOR PRINT WORK..... Where do these teachers come from?

How is this free? Glad I am a Sekonic customer.

Sir you mentioned Joseph Karsh. Did you mean Yusuf Karsh?

48:36 Correct me if I'm being wrong, but putting a sock on a modifier does not make the light from it softer, it makes it diffused (instead of being direct without the sock). With all due respect to Chris!

Awesome teacher!

thank you, Chris, you are an excellent teacher.

That's incredible. Chris Knight is a great photographer and teacher

The pacing of this teaching is beautiful. Keep up the great work🖤

You got so many great stuff, I highly appreciate your teaching. Please keep sharing.

This is a free master class. Amazing job.

This is fantastic. Best explanation I've ever seen on how to use the incident meter relative to fill lights. Brilliant! Thank you for sharing.

Loved this course…I don’t use a light meter but now I am considering it since I finally understand how to use it thanks to Chris’s teaching.

One of the best videos I’ve seen in a while on this topic. More of this would be great, maybe with some of your other ambassadors too.

Years ago, I communicated with Sekonic about "what I want, what I really, really want". I still got the 758. They answered, summarised and paraphrased from Japanese politeness, me that I had to be patient and wait for the next release. But it wasn't in the works yet and it isn't in the 858. Third party apps and hardware exist that "collaborate with" our contemporary cameras. Flash triggers, lenses, applications, and other accessories. Imagine a Bluetooth connection between meter and camera. - sync the ISO from the meter to the camera. - set the camera from the meter to a measurement made with the meter, precisely at the exposure time and aperture value on the meter. - tell the camera to trigger the flash system without necessarily taking a shot. This may be difficult for Sekonic given they operate in a niche market, and on an island in more than a geological way. But they could collaborate with a party that already has proven to know how to work with different brands of cameras and models. DxO Mark split from DxO software as DxO Mark- likely - provide profiles to software developers like Adobe that DxO competes with. Here the multi-camera/lens brand research is spun out into a separate legal entity with "Chinese Walls" between them and the software developers that compete with a client of the research branch. PocketWizard have solved the TTL flash interface at many levels for different cameras already, and now the spun-out-of-them "Fusion" company in the "Raven" flash trigger has a histogram of flash energy plotted in its display on the shutter's timeline - enabling a simple HyperSync [1] timing control approach. And then there's examples of Adobe, Capture One, or Helicon where large, medium and small development houses know how to make their products interoperate with cameras. Maybe Sekonic should try to collaborate with a partner in this sense, if they don't want to or cannot do the R&D themselves. Around 1990, Japanese companies with island mentality had been leading the development of, and market of, simply called "chip printers" (lithography machines). These machines are fed a physical design of a chip and then these machines make them. It's like you have your raw photo (logical design) that you convert in two steps to JPEG (physical design) and then have that printed. You go to a print house, and in chips, you go to a "foundry" or "fab", with your logical design and they do the rest with and for you. The foundry/fab companies maintain strict Chines Walls between employees facing off with competing clients. About 1990, the rate of innovation in the chip industry was too high and the Japanese market leaders lost their position to a startup in Europe that relied on a network organisation and still today is leading. These two Japanese parties have since learnt to work more as a network organisation. And are still successful in their own right, but also because of that now may return to competing in the chip printer market. A chip printer today may cost almost US$ 1B (billion). My first Sekonic was a 398 and it worked in the studio as surrogate for a flash meter, by measuring the proportional modelling light (f/stop at ISO for the film in the camera and a rather low shutter speed). The 758 is so much better, but it lacks connections. I don't need thousands of shots in a shoot, only a few, basically. I don't need to chimp, but the model may need to. I can still work in the old shoot-workflow of large format, or medium. But with "recognition AI AF" I do not need to tell the sitter to sit still, not move, and I don;t need to refocus each time the sitter moved - because the camera does it. I can maintain eye contact with the sitter, if I want and keep communicating with them without getting distracted - in my case because of nerdy things, in the sitter's case because the interaction stops. Such features as "I want" in a lightmeter extend its relevance in this market and shoot-workflows. [1] HyperSync uses a single flash for higher than X-sync exposure times. At full power, most strobes take at least 1/200 sec. A focal plane shutter needs some 1/100 sec for any shorter than X-sync to happen. While 1/8000 sec applies to each coordinate in the frame, the travel times of opening and closing the shutter add up to a much longer time. "Shutter speed is constant" and what varies is only the time between opening and closing, which is what "fast shutter speed" actually references. This HyperSync can only work if we can place the precise flash trigger moment earlier than X-sync. We must go back to sync moments of the past when we used single-use flash-light-bulbs. If our cameras still have "FP" sync we can start with that. "FP" in the case of sync means "flat peak" and that's a reference to flash bulbs burning longer and at a flat peak thus suitable for focal-plane shutters at shorter than X-sync exposure times. In fact, when we shot FP bulbs with FP sync in the 60s or 70s, we used the original of "HyperSync". But with the shorter flash duration of strobes/speedlights we need to be able to shift the sync moment. (a) Because the synchronisation. (b) Because we need to be able to shift the light to a band in the frame where we need the light if the flash is too short to cover the entire frame. Imagine placing the flash higher up in the frame, thus preventing an overexposed foreground. Imagine no worries about pulsing speedlights as in High-Speed-Sync that might give banding. And, you'd be using the shutter to determine flash exposure.

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Great interview, enjoyed listening to the back stories and Tim’s open and honest views during the Q&A.

Good explanation of how to measure, treat and manage continuous and strobe lights! Cheers Chris.

Awesome well paced non-TikTok’ish :) detailed and informative video Chris. Thank you…

We need to see more of Chris and his well paced explanations! Well done

Very informative lesson and easy to comprehend Chris is my favorite portrait photographer please don’t leave him alone, I enjoy his lessons so please send him my regards.

Its a great instrucional video, I'm not sure what the "too much talking" comment is about, the talking/explanation is more important to understanding than simply firing off shots. Explaining the what/why/how is far more useful imho, and Chris explains it really well. Thanks! I already have (and use) a 308X, but do want to upgrade to the L858 at some point :)

You always teaching well, thank you for sharing your art, .

Nicely done and well explained.

I just wish this company would sponsor me 😂 would save me so much time setting up lighting in my studio I have been wanting a light meter for years

So well done! Thank you!

You talk to much.