Sekonic L-458
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The Sekonic L-458 Digiflash is a hand held exposure meter released in 1984.
It is very good design at the time with a easy to use and read digital LCD panel. It is a shutter priority meter, set the ISO and shutter to determine the aperture value. It is capable of measuring ambient light in either a reflective or incident mode. Reflected light requires the REF disc acessory attached to the head, it measure at a 55 degree angle. While the incident require the Lumisphere for 3D subjects or the Lumidisc for flat subjects. Flash measurement is also available by connecting a pc sync cord. The ISO setting is from 3 to 8000 and can be set by pressing and holding ISO button and pressing the up or down keys to change the setting. Shutter speed on the meter maybe a bit limited for some users with speeds of 1/15 to 1/250. A battery check function is available by pressing and holding the On/Off switch, an indicator b.c will appear on the LCD panel with 10 segment level scale, release the button to resume. A battery saving feature powers down in 5 minutes from the last measure. After pressing the off button on the power up the meter resets the settings to ISO 64 and 1/60 a sec shutter speed. It is powered by a single 1.5v AA sized battery.
Specifications
- Metering modes: Incident and reflected
- Metering range (ISO 100): 4 to 21.9 EV
- Metering flash: corded with pc sync cable
- Metering range flash: f1 to 90
- Metering acuracy: ± 0.1 EV
- ISO: 3 to 8000 (1/3 step)
- Shutter speed: 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250
- Aperture: 1 to 90f + 0.9 AV (1/10 step)
- Power: 1x AA battery
- Dimensions: 142 x 64 x 28 mm
- Weight: 160g
