PhotoCamel - Your Friendly Photo Forum - View Single Post

Eero Makela · 11-10-2008

Nikon D300 matrix has issues with some lighting situations. The D50 Matrix was way more accurate.

I have started using CW and sometimes Spot to get much better results.

My D50 compared to the D300 in the very same event and same lens (mind you 1 year apart ) is off by as much as 2 stops (darker) then by D50 was , but using Matrix

The light meter does not care about the back light on the subject when you are using it for incident reading.

Also the L-358 (or any meter) needs to be calibrated to your camera. Mine was off about 1/3 of stop when compared to another Sekonic. Mind you his was also calibrated to his camera where as mine was at factory default.

I did some tests at first and it seemed to be off by 1 stop in my gray card test shots, I recently did more tests and used both a gray card with color full objects to do a real world test and I think it was only off by 0.1 stops. This error could be a result of the flash I am using (SB800) as they do not have predictable results. I will need to do the calibration using my 400BX strobe to be 100% sure.

11-10-2008	#15 (permalink)
Eero Makela Dromedary Posts: 1,575 CamelKarma: 711 Editing OK?: Ask first Gallery \| Blog	Re: woo hoo bought a light meter Nikon D300 matrix has issues with some lighting situations. The D50 Matrix was way more accurate. I have started using CW and sometimes Spot to get much better results. My D50 compared to the D300 in the very same event and same lens (mind you 1 year apart ) is off by as much as 2 stops (darker) then by D50 was , but using Matrix The light meter does not care about the back light on the subject when you are using it for incident reading. Also the L-358 (or any meter) needs to be calibrated to your camera. Mine was off about 1/3 of stop when compared to another Sekonic. Mind you his was also calibrated to his camera where as mine was at factory default. I did some tests at first and it seemed to be off by 1 stop in my gray card test shots, I recently did more tests and used both a gray card with color full objects to do a real world test and I think it was only off by 0.1 stops. This error could be a result of the flash I am using (SB800) as they do not have predictable results. I will need to do the calibration using my 400BX strobe to be 100% sure.
	__________________ Eero Makela Photographies des femmes pour les hommes. ========== To see the light you have to understand the light, but to understand the light you have to see the light.