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| flashbulbman Joined: 29 Jan 2009 Posts: 51 |  Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:17 am Post subject: flashmeterCan you measure the output of a flashbulb with a flashmeter? Did anyone make a flashmeter that measures flashbulbs? |
| sevo Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 34 | Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:37 am In my experience, the Minolta Flashmeter IV and up (plus the late Autometer F variants which incorporate the Flashmeters ambient/flash combination mode) respectively their Kenko successors can handle bulbs gracefully. Older flashmeters for indoor studio applications probably can't - these have gate times below 1/60s and no mode for longtime ambient/flash mix lighting. Sevo |
| Henry Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 1662 | Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:33 pm Sevo, does that include the Gossens Luna-Pro F? |
| sevo Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 34 | Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:13 pm Never having had one, I've never tried that with bulbs. If it can meter ambient/flash combinations for arbitrary times, it is bound to have incremental realtime metering, and will handle bulbs. If it cannot, it is likely that the gate time is fixed around 1/60s - and it will only catch fast bulbs with reasonably accuracy (though you could do tests with a given bulb to determine the correction factor - the error would be constant). Sevo |
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