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Subject: Re: [OM] Flash meters: was: Sleep to Shot timing (was "Olympus E-P1review on DPR")
From: "Sue Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:48:51 -0500
Yes, mine is a cheaper version and it has it too. The big ones do as well.

Bill Pearce
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Flash meters: was: Sleep to Shot timing (was "Olympus 
E-P1review on DPR")


> 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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