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Ken Bernstein
 

Sekonic L-VI Exposure Meter


 
 
I purchased a Sekonic L-VI light meter on eBay (because my old match-needle meter broke). I thought I could figure out how to use any meter, but I was wrong. Can somebody please help out?

The photo cell has a mask/shutter, and the frame of the unit says "open" near blue marks and "closed" near red marks. (Okay so far, but those marks are the only red and blue colors I see.)

The meter face has markings that look like f/stops, going from 0 through 8.

There are several concentric sets of numbers. The outermost is f/stops, from 1 through 32. Then there comes a shutter speed set of numbers, running from 4 sec. through 1/1000 sec. There is also an ASA index (which also makes sense). However, there is a "Light Value" window, which runs from 3 through 19.

I suppose my question is how do I relate the meter scale (0 through 8) to this Light Value (3 through 19), knowing full well that something's supposed to be red and something's supposed to be blue????


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November 30, 2006

 
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