Good light meter

[pelks]

I'm looking to buy a good light meter to measure my ever increasing passion to modify my lights, but don't now what to get.
I've looked on eBay and the light meter's there look very CHEAP and nasty.
I also don't want to spend a fortune maybe around the AU$150.
Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

 

[wptski]

I'm looking to buy a good light meter to measure my ever increasing passion to modify my lights, but don't now what to get.
I've looked on eBay and the light meter's there look very CHEAP and nasty.
I also don't want to spend a fortune maybe around the AU$150.
Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

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[pelks]

What does that suppose to mean wptski?

 

[wptski]

What does that suppose to mean wptski?

Sorry, that link didn't work for some reason! Go to Search and enter Light Meter for a thread topic, you'll the same question that your asking.

 

[OhMyGosh]

I have this light meter. It seems to work as well as any of the consumer priced ones work. Like all the lower price light meters, I don't think it has a proper human eye response curve (reads to high for red and blue).

Be sure to read Silverfox's great thread on light meter benchmarking to get an idea of the accuracy.

 

[scott.cr]

I have an older Sper Scientific light meter that I bought new some years ago, I paid $49 for it plus another $19 for a NIST-traceable calibration cert.

You can find Sper light meters on eBay for a song.

 

[pelks]

Thanks everyone for your input. I've bought a control company 3251 light meter.
Now I cant wait to use it. I will try to follow silverfox's light testing procedure.
Let there be light

 

[LuxLuthor]

As wptski said, this question has been asked and answered many time in many threads. He was making a valid point to try a search first, instead of a new topic. You will get much more useful information that way. I like my Meterman LM-631 which is the most popular among CPF'ers.

 

[pelks]

I did do a search first and came up with some old threads where most of the links did not work, hence this thread.