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Subject: Re: [OM] Flash meters: was: Sleep to Shot timing (was "Olympus E-P1review on DPR")
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:33:18 -0400
My Sekonic is about 4 years old and still works like a charm.  I know 
Minolta meters are excellent but I wouldn't buy one unless it had the 
flash/ambient feature of the Sekonic.  I don't know whether Minolta ever 
had that or not.

Chuck Norcutt

Sue Pearce wrote:
> I have an older Minolta meter that has been flawless, unlide the Sekonic 
> that failed within minutes of the expiration of the warranty, and was 
> treated like crap by MAC.
> 
> I underssstand that someone bought the meter line from Minolta and is making 
> them again. I'd do it in a minute. I'd even look at good used examples from 
> KEH.
> 
> Billl PEarce
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Flash meters: was: Sleep to Shot timing (was "Olympus 
> E-P1review on DPR")
> 
> 
> Thanks, Chuck, I think you' ve written about this meter before, as I
> discovered it's in my B&H wishlist already.  I guess I was hoping that
> if I left it there long enough the price would go down, but no such
> luck!
> 
> Joel W.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Chuck
> Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I believe the L-328 had been discontinued. I don't know its specs but,
>> of current models, I would recommend the L-358 (which may be the L-328's
>> replacement). The reason to be quite specific is that the L-358
>> measures both flash and ambient simultaneously and reports the
>> percentage of flash to total in 10% increments. When you have 20-30%
>> flash you have a good fill flash ratio. Since I don't use my studio
>> lights much anymore about 90% of my meter's usage is fill flash. From
>> memory, I believe the L-358 to be the lowest cost Sekonic meter with
>> this feature. It also has provision for an optional, internal
>> PocketWizard transmitter module. I have the transmitter module since it
>> was included free at the time I bought my L-358 but I don't use
>> PocketWizards (too expensive).
>> <http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?ci=0&shs=sekonic+L-358&sb=ps&pn=1&sq=desc&InitialSearch=yes&O=jsp%2Fproductlist.jsp&A=search&Q=*&bhs=t&Go.x=20&Go.y=15&Go=submit>
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