Controlling Light is an essential skill for photographers, videographers and digital filmmakers. Sekonic makes tools such as light meters, color meters and illuminometers to help you measure and control light for the perfect exposure. Save time and money by getting it right in-camera instead of in post-production. Need inspiration or guidance? You've come to the right place. Please enjoy our videos.
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My apologies if I missed it, but did he ever say where to point the meter's dome when taking his readings?.....and why?
Two general rules. To measure the brightness of each light source, you should point the light towards the light source. To get an overall exposure, you should point the dome towards your camera from the subject's position. Wherever the dome is, it will give you the light reading of the light falling on that surface.
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??
Each camera will have an ISO, A shutter speed, and an aperture. A light meter allows you to enter two values and give you the third.
good job Andy.
Thanks 👍 we love working with Andy.
the meter has not helped me understand anything. it just gives me the answer like a hand-held calculator
How can we help you. What are you trying to understand?
I want to be like you when I grow up🙌
We appreciate you. Thank you.
Why does Sekonic do not recommend rechargeable batteries? As it voids warranty
The voltage of most rechargeable batteries is lower, which can cause the battery indicator to show an improper reading.
I shoot with a Nikon D 800 and I shoot auto ISO so how should I set this meter up as far as iso ?
If you are using Auto ISO, you wouldn't use a light meter; your camera will constantly change based on science. A light meter assumes you will be manually setting your ISO, Shutter speed, and Aperture.
Is this tutorial applicable for sekonic L308?
yes this tutorial is applicable to the Sekonic L308-X
@@SekonicGlobal thank you, i'm considering to buy L308-X as my first light meter to learn photography
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.
We're flattered by your kind words! We're proud to be trusted by so many professionals in the industry 🙏
This was amazing 👍
Thank you, it was fun to create, I think its time for another one.
Straight to the point, I love it!
Thank. Look out for more content from us.
Chris Knight is without a doubt the one I've learned most from on KZread when it comes to photographic with strobes Thank you so much for another great video!
Thank you for your kind words, we appreciate your support! We love working with Chris.
Sekonic should bring these back. The old school electronics design makes a better product than the new touch screen design imo
We hear you, Matt. Our L308x is still a not touchscreen meter. We definitely understand the benefit of buttons in many use cases, but we are currently focused on the touch screens as the best way to incorporate all the features these meters have.
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.
Thank you for your kind words, we will pass this along to Chris!
This is easily one of the best lessons on controlling light I've ever watched. I will absolutely be referencing this again and again.
So glad you found the value in the video! We have more video content planned, so stay tuned!
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.
We absolutely have more content like this planned for the near future. Keep an eye out and don't forget to subscribe to get upload notifications!
Great content! I'd love to know what filter did Chris use?! Anyone any idea?
He was using a Black Pro Mist or Hollywood filter.
so which filter where you actually using Chris ?
He was using a Black Pro Mist or Hollywood filter.
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)?
Yes, correct. There currently isn't an internal module to remotely fire the lights. You have to use cordless flash mode.
@@SekonicGlobal so..like we can see in the 2 videos by chris knight, with profoto system, he is using 2 profoto connect pro? (one in his hand one mounted on the camera?) it will work also with one profoto connect pro and one older profoto air remote ttl? thanks so much for the info.. and.. great content 👍🏻
Thank you.
f11 is a commercial zone of focus ........required to reach a usable zone of focus. FOR PRINT WORK..... Where do these teachers come from?
We work with some of the best commercial portrait photographers in the world, and they often choose the aperture based on the look they are going for, what they want in focus, and the lighting. One aperture definitely doesn't fit every shoot. - Ab Sesay
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How is this free? Glad I am a Sekonic customer.
We are working to create more long-form content. Glad you like it.
Sir you mentioned Joseph Karsh. Did you mean Yusuf Karsh?
Correct, we are talking about the photographer 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!
Correct, the sock diffuses the light. Therefore it will take on more qualities of softer light, but depending on the relative distance and relative size compared to the subject will dictate how much of a softening effect it has.
Awesome teacher!
Thank you! 😃
thank you, Chris, you are an excellent teacher.
You're very welcome! We love working with Chris.
That's incredible. Chris Knight is a great photographer and teacher
Thank you.
The pacing of this teaching is beautiful. Keep up the great work🖤
Thank you! Will do!
You got so many great stuff, I highly appreciate your teaching. Please keep sharing.
Thank you. We are definitely looking to do more educational content.
This is a free master class. Amazing job.
We are looking to do more long-form content for sure.
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.
Thank you.
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.
We're so glad you found what you needed in the video!
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.
Thank you for the feedback. It helps us determine what type of content people want to see.
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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Thank you.
Great interview, enjoyed listening to the back stories and Tim’s open and honest views during the Q&A.
Thanks for listening
Good explanation of how to measure, treat and manage continuous and strobe lights! Cheers Chris.
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome well paced non-TikTok’ish :) detailed and informative video Chris. Thank you…
Glad you liked it! We love creating content with Chris!
We need to see more of Chris and his well paced explanations! Well done
Thank you for the feedback. We are looking to do more long-form content.
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.
Glad you enjoyed it. We love working with Chris Knight.
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 :)
Thank you so much for the feedback. We are looking to do more long-form content to really show more in real-time. The L-858 really is a great meter.
You always teaching well, thank you for sharing your art, .
So nice of you, Im sure Chris will love to hear this.
Nicely done and well explained.
Glad it was helpful!
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
We understand. But we are happy to share free content with you.
So well done! Thank you!
Your welcome we are looking to do more long form educational content.
You talk to much.
We love Chris and his words are not wasted on us.
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Outstanding! Walking through the process is very instructive.
Thank you. Definitely let us know if you would like to see more long form content.
Be cautious my antivirus blocked an attack after trying to open the link to the light meter.
Thank you for the feedback we will check it out.
Too much talking.
We have a lot of feedback from customer for wanting more long form content. We will be mixing it up so please check back.
Thanks for the extremely useful information and examples of how to set the amount of lighting using the Sekonic meter.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow! More of those please!
We are looking to start producing more long form content for sure.