Here's a tip. Unscrew the coldshoe mount on the AsrHori...Slide in a lanyard and tighten it up. Always around your neck.

I have the KEKS KM02. Bought it directly from the company before it was released to the public. I absolutely LOVE it and it has a LOT of features on it. It meters real good and is very handy when you don't want to lug around a bigger meter.

I like how you changed the print on the wall behind you whenever you cut back to yourself. Very clever! 😊

Got a used AstrHori for 30 quid used so can't complain. It's an average and highly portable meter at least. I oddly prefer making a guesstimation then look at a meter to see if I'm near the ballpark figure as it's more fun..best way to learn!

I have one of the TTArtisan light meter and I think it's a godsend for people with older cameras!!! Does its job well and it's not that too expensive. I'd recommend to get one, as well!

I have two from Doomo Made. The meter d and meter s in brass they are awesome little things and the metering is close enough that I've never had an issue. They spend their time on my Leica M3 & Kodak Retinas, sometime even in my pocket just to check light when walking around with a minolta 16 or minox. And the black painted brass looks nice as it ages.

i have a DOOMO Meter D Cold Shoe Light Meter for my Leica M2. It has a 30 degree sensitivity and better than the TT Artisan version which has a 45 degree sensitivity. It gives EXACTLY the same reading as my Leica MP.I researched many brands and the DOOMO seemed the best. It also has two analogue dials for shutter and aperture rather than digital which is perfect for my old eyes and I don't have to remember how many times to push the same button.

I've got the Voigtlander one for my Hassy, as I got tired of carrying the spot meter around whenever I shoot on the street or something similar. Fits right on the side on the shoe mount and works like a charm. For closeup work I still prefer a spot meter though.

That looks great. I’ve just got my first TLR and checked my settings by taking a quick photo on my X-T30. Carrying two cameras isn’t always practical but it does mean you have a digital backup for comparison. Once I get a bit more confident I’ll probably leave the Fuji at home so this might be handy.

I use a Sekonic 208 for my OM-1n as never found a good replacement battery for it. So not to loose the meter, get a cheap lanyard for mobile phone type, loosen the shoe and and jam the cord under and tighten screws and good for hanging around neck but you already thought of that probably! Thanks for sharing.

I have the TTArtisan one, I use it with my smaller cameras where I don't want to carry the Pentax Spotmeter V. Works fine, plenty accurate for B&W .

I have the one from TTArtisan which is a "copy" of the Voigtländer VC meter. This small thing is pretty neat. I got the first version which is black paint on a brass housing that's sure to look awesome once it gets a bit worn out sitting on top of a rangefinder. The new ones are aircraft aluminum. Precision wise, it's pretty good and I'm happy with it so far. The wheels don't turn by accident and you don't have a power hungry screen to deal with.

I have the TT artisan and I am very happy with it. I use it with any cameras I have that don't have a built in light meter. (Obviously). These include russian zenits and Kievs, a zeiss contaflex and an ercona 6x9. No problems whatsoever, though at some point I might also purchase a spot meter (they are expensive, however....)

I also tested one of these and prefer to stick with my old Zeiss Ikon Ikophot from the 1950s. If I measure the exposure once with the Zeiss, it will permanently show me all the settings I can use on the camera. Sometimes from 1/1000 up to 1s, everything at a glance without having to convert in your head or make other settings. I'm sticking with my old Zeiss and had brought the little digital toy back to the shop.

I have a little bigger meter, the sekonic L-208. If I didn’t have it, this might be an interesting alternative. Thanks again for your inspiring video :-)

Excellent video and beautiful gadget. It is not the first tiny light meter. Vivitar had one very accurate in the years 80s. LONG LIVE FILM PHOTOGRAPHY.

Afaik, all of these new tiny light meters use the same photo diode that is cheap and available easily. The only differences are build quality and maybe calibrating. I dont have one cause I love my gossen lunasix. Nothing beats a dial interface lightmeter :)

I have a KEKS meter and while it's accurate it all depends what you point it at, as with any meter. And I just find a hand held meter with a big dial and a large display much better for pointing at things. They also usually come with a slide over invercone so if you want to cross check between a reflective reading and an incident reading it's very quick to do.

Thank you for the mention. I enjoyed making the prints for you. You are most welcome.

Another Keks KM02 user here, on a couple of my cameras, and a trusty Sekonic L308s for most use.

I have a TT Artisan meter. While I have tested it against a large Sekonic unit and found it accurate, I find it too easy to accidentally change the ISO setting when adjusting the f stop dial, and in daylight the over/under leds are near impossible to read. I also have a light meter app on my mobile phone that is annoyingly about 2 stops off - it gives me an accurate reading for iso 400 when I set it to 1600. I really liked a little Sekonic L208, but that succumbed to gravity and ceased to function. To be honest, I am quite happy with sunny sixteen down to about f8, but find it hard to judge the light as it gets dimmer.

Great info!...This is counter-intuitive to my wanting to be free from charging, buying batteries, etc. 😄 I bought an old Petri 7s thinking I would finally be free (selenium meter! no batteries needed to operate the camera!). Well, the dang meter only works sporadically and when it does work it's jumpy or just wrong. Shot down. So I started using a phone app meter. Which also defeats my wanting to just carry a mechanical camera around. I suppose I'll just estimate. A light meter would cost more than what I paid for the camera ($25)... I love all your videos by the way, thanks for all the information.

These little meters are fantastic! I use a keks on my GW680 so that the readout faces toward the back. I use an AstrHori on my TLR with a 90 degree shoe adapter so that the readout screen face upward. I then carry a Reveni labs spot meter when I think I might need to cross check. Happy Holidays!

I bought a similar one called a V-201X. I like it so far. If I had to knit pick, the display is a little hard to see in bright sunlight. Otherwise, it works great for me.

Handy little gadget to chuck in my camera bag. Got mine on AliExpress for £35.

I'm going to stick with my little analogue Sekonic L-208. Because I can see the shutter speeds for all the different apertures at the same time.

I looked at all these little meters and went with the Reflx Labs one.. It was the cheapest and the tiniest. Also the silver one looks perfect on top of my M2 and almost looks like it was made for my Leica iiif... Matches the Barnacks perfectly.. My take on these meters is mainly to use them as a starting point. Once you have an idea of the calibration of the meter its pretty easy to make adjustments in your head. The ambition is to work sans meter as much as possible.

My wife bought me a Voightlander small meter a few years back, they are expensive but it seems to work well.

I've made myself a necklace for my mini lightmeter haha ! Those things are so tiny they indeed should come with a sort of necklace or strap. It's surprisingly accurate, does the work really well.

Any chance you'll do a follow-up video to show us how/if it works for nighttime metering?

Bought this cheap light meter from Alexipress - 0.96 Inch 0led M08 Light Meter Camera Photometer Photography Light Set-top Reflection Meter Z9c1. It is very ugly but it works! I like the look of yours better. Great video!

All the reviews indicate that the little meters work very well. Currently I use an light meter app (myLightMeter) on my iPhone with my Mamiya TLR and my Olympus OM-1

I got one of these, and it lasted for about a roll and a half of film before the single control button broke, making it compleely inoperable. I opened it up, and found that the button is press fit, and had come loose. It's really fiddly to try to get it back together.

"I keep bloody losing it" ..yep, I have exactly the same experience with my ol' VC-meter II. :D I like the double dial ones like the VC-2 and the Doomo with the 3 LEDs, not really a fan of these small meters with the LCD displays.

In fairness to Reveni labs, I think the one you show there is actually their spot meter, which does look like a really cool bit of gear, and very different to anything else I've seen.

It’d be great if there was another spot meter. The Raveni Labs one does exist, but it’s kinda strange, and you don’t look through a lens.

All the light meters you showed do the same job, more or less, there is one exception though and that is Reveni Labs. They have a spot meter not much larger than the light meter in your hands, but the price is rather steep. I think they are about £230.00 here in the UK, or CA$245.00 from Reveni itself. BTW, I think your meter was reading accurately. It is just a simple average reading that this meter does, which means it is giving you an exposure reading to produce the scene as a mid gray. Since you are pointing it at primarily a light wall, it is over reading, so opening up a stop or so would give you the right exposure. I am sure the Leica is using an ' evaluative ' metering algorithm so it compensates for the extra luminance of the wall to produce the tones more correctly.

I used one similar to this and it's not bad.

I can speak with some authority that Nick doesn't sound anything like that, but that is how his mouth moves.

Great video Rog. I’ve just bought a vintage light meter recently to use with my film cameras. Weston Master iii - not tried it out yet but keeping my fingers crossed it’ll do the job 👌🏻

.... very impressive .... thankyou

I have to admit that the only phone app meter I have used was awful. Might have to get something like that 👍📸

I have similar small lightmeters from Sekoic and Gossen and thes do their job well. And speaking of the AstrHori: why is the silver one 10€ cheaper than the black one?

I bought the TTartisans meter… but I never actually use it! Aside from the couple of hours I took it out to test it, it’s just been sitting in the box. Waste of money for me sadly, I’d sell it if I could.

after you did the calibration of -1, did you keep it that way for all the testing you did in the video?

dude was shooting with a great wall camera.

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the date on the screen is tilted compared to the window for the screen on the device? lol. OCD acting up. Was thinking of picking one of these up. Will refresh my research. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

can you do IR Metering with this one day? I would love not to rely on light meter free when shooting Rollei Infrared or Ilford SFX

Fiddly to operate. Handy in continuous mode on top of a GW690 but I still prefer to use incident metering.

I looked on Amazon, and they're saying they only have 16 left. Must be the Roger Lowe effect!

My light meter lasted only 2 months, the button got stuck and the company didn’t return my mails to try to fix it or exchange. no guarantee at all.

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Good job, BUT - - can you read that display in bright sunlight? Also, how low of light levels will it read *accurately*? Cheers, mate!

Damn, these things are brilliant, had no clue they exited! Thank you!!! ❤

Ive been using a ttartisans minimeter for years and it has been bullet proof. I've now just bought a sekonic 858, but am wondering if I've wasted $1000. I hope not.

Your exposure problems with OM camera could be due to the banned battery. I have OM-1n and it used mercury battery with different voltage than batteries produce today, therefore an adapter or conversion is needed. And pair it with stable-voltage battery - silver oxide. Don't use alkaline, they cause metering problems you are describing. I have the adapter and meter is good enough for slides, every time. I see that OM-20 uses modern batteries, though, but replacing alkalines (if used) to silver could help. Sure did for me.

Smart phone can do it also.

My KEKS KM02 has 4 flippin’ buttons. Can I remember what they’re all for or what order to press them in? Not a chance.

Slow shutter speeds aren’t a strength of this camera because of the mirror slap.

I think putting one on a watch strap is going to be my move......

I can not understand why anyone would spend $75+ dollars for a light meter. Following the sunny 16 rule has worked perfectly fine for me for 55 years now. I’ll often use a spot meter (Pentax 3/21 degree) for detailed large format work, and a free phone app for indoor situations, but I’ll spend my $75 on film. Best of luck to everyone who would rather buy expensive unnecessary things. It is kind of cute, I’ll give you that.

Are there any of these digital light meters that have a spot function, or at least a wide/standard/tele function?

But is it better than an iPhone app? That’s its main competitor in my eyes.

i have seen these units on ebay have looked at them but like you just think there not going to work.

It's not really that small. The light meter in any of your random film cameras built in isn't any bigger than that is.

Watching this video will leave you shook! ALL CAPS!!! 😂

Does anyone know why the grey/silver one is $10 cheaper than the black one?

Personally I don't see the point for this small light meters. I use my smartphone cause it's always with me and got excellent results. 🙂

What is the channels community area?

what is the lens at 0:11

This must have been a complicated video to edit as you have quite a bit going on here.

I found these cheap light meters fall of the shoe on many cameras because they don’t fit.

cant see the point of this.... ev value metering is far easier.

You clearly don't get box speed with your process. So why evaluate "review" a meter while not using it to expose and develop to the best of your developer's ability?

It's not accurate. Also it broke after 2 days of use. I wholeheartedly hate this thing

You're so real bro I love it