Light Meter For Red VS My Old Light Meter

[Vigen Vartanov]

Good day . I'm want to change my old Light Meter , Cine Soviet Union one. :) "Leningrad " It is realy cool but to old .
Sow now i'm looking for Profesional Cine Light Meter . With normal price .
Many thanks for comments.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/245899-REG/Spectra_18002ABL_Professional_IV_A_P_2000EL_A_Digi tal.html

[Barry Green]

Take a look at the Sekonic L-758 Cine. It *may* be the perfect meter for the Red One, but I haven't tried it yet.

Shooting raw is very different than shooting film or video, and this Sekonic has the ability to profile the meter to match the sensor.

Hopefully someone who's used the Sekonic will weigh in and let us know if it really works well with the Red One. I've got a Sekonic L-508C, great little cine meter but the profiling-for-the-sensor features make me think it may be time to upgrade.

[Vigen Vartanov]

And Also Lux Meter , i have problems with Light , ann White Balance ,
Sorry for Question , how dose profiling-for-the-sensor works. Ot like calibration for youre camera ?
Thanks.

[Jim Hoffman]

Why would you choose the L758DR over the L758Cine?

[Alexander Nikishin]

The Sekonic L758Cine is a great meter, avoid the still camera version which is the L758DR.

[Patrick Tresch]

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/476493-REG/Sekonic_401760_L_758C_Cine_Light_Meter.html

Yes I second that.

Or the gossen.

[Barry Green]

DOH! Yes, L-758 Cine is obviously the one I meant. Post above edited to reflect that.

[Chris Nuzzaco]

I own the L-758 Cine... worth the money man.

I programed mine, love it. The only down side though, it assumes you base off of 18% gray, and thus the programing is built around that. As a result I had to do some careful tweeking to get get mine to work the way I wanted since I base off of the highlights. Still works though.

[Scott Webster]

DOH! Yes, L-758 Cine is obviously the one I meant. Post above edited to reflect that.

Barry Green is in the house. Welcome Barry!

[Tai Wah Lim]

I own the L-758 Cine... worth the money man.

I programed mine, love it. The only down side though, it assumes you base off of 18% gray, and thus the programing is built around that. As a result I had to do some careful tweeking to get get mine to work the way I wanted since I base off of the highlights. Still works though.

And L-758 Cine is both a spot and incident meter.

Chris, mind if you share what you meant by tweaking it to do what you want it to do?

Lim

[Michael Morlan]

Chris, I have the L758 Cine but haven't played with profiling it yet. Do you have a setup file I could load up?

Michael

[Barry Green]

Barry Green is in the house. Welcome Barry!

Thanks Scott! Lovin' bein' a Red user.

[Larry McKee]

I use the older L-508C and I love it. When I set it to 320ASA 24FPS, it matches the RED's readings exactly. It is great having a built in spot meter. One less thing to carry around.

[Vigen Vartanov]

We get L-758C Cine and L-398A Studio Deluxe III .
What about Profiles , that i can load from PC. Did some body have ready RED Profiles. Thanks

[Irri]

I have the L-758 Cine. It's nice, but there is a problem with it. The spot metre is out on blue/green screen. Someone mentioned this so I tested it with another metre. The 758 was half a stop out.

[Jason Wingrove]

Spectra is the industry standard.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/245894-REG/Spectra_18002AB_Professional_IV_A_P_2000EL_A_Digit al.html

[Andrae Palmer]

Just got this meter (L-758 Cine)... not in the right conditions to profile it. Can someone send me there profile? Thanks in advance.

[Richard Goodwin]

And Also Lux Meter , i have problems with Light , ann White Balance ,
Sorry for Question , how dose profiling-for-the-sensor works. Ot like calibration for youre camera ?
Thanks.

It sounds like you are actually looking for two meters. One an exposure meter (I agree on the Sekonic).

But, the other (when you say "white balance") would be a color temp. meter. These are pretty expensive (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/558948-REG/Sekonic_401_500_Prodigi_Color_C_500_Color.html). However, the benefit to these is for measuring color temp in specific areas of the scene. This would be true with say mixed lighting conditions. EX: "realistic" office situation with florescent tubes inside with daylight coming in the windows. If you want to measure that (in order to correct on set with gels. etc) you would need a Color Temp meter for detailed readings. Of course many times you could just gel the windows or do other standard stuff.

If you mean overall white balance on the image you are getting, then you need to look at your camera settings (white Balance Presets/Settings on the camera). The other way would be in post with RedCine etc.

My guess is you are talking about the latter and you just need to make a general correction in camera or in post.

[Catherine Russell]

We sell a variety of light meters. Among them the L-758Cine, which is by far the most popular light meter we have, and the Spectra IV which is also very popular - but obviously, for different reasons, among them the price. I realize, though, that it is kind of like comparing apples to oranges when comparing the L-758 to the Spectra IV, as the Spectra is solely an incident light meter... Anyway, they're both solid meters.

As far as a color temperature meters, we have the new Sekonic Prodigi C-500. It's an incident light meter as well as a color temperature meter - it's really cool, and much cheaper than, say, the Gossen Color Temp Meter, and a lot of other meters that are solely color temp meters.

All our light and color temperature meters can be found on our website here:
http://www.filmtools.com/lightmeters.html

We've got these in the store, so you can come check them out.

[Jef Costello]

I would appreciate if someone could send me a profile. I have been given the sekonic in the middle of a forest shoot!

Many thanks.

ramin.matin(at)gmail.com

[Steven Parker]

Spectra is the industry standard.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/245894-REG/Spectra_18002AB_Professional_IV_A_P_2000EL_A_Digit al.html

Spectra IV-A is an excellent excellent meter. I've had mine the last six years, works perfectly for 35mm and Red too. Extremely accurate.