Light meters

[Seadog]

I know you guys probably get asked this a million times, but I tried the search function without much success.

 

So what I am wondering is will a "universal" type light meter (e.g. Weston II) work for cinema cameras (I'm using a K3). Or is there any way of telling if it is a cinema type, stills type, or flash type. I've heard that an incident light meter is what I want (apparently these are the ones with a white bubble), but there are no cinema equipment retailers anywhere near me so I can't really go and check out a bunch of them.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Patrick Neary]

Hi-

 

You're in good company, I remember seeing pictures of Nestor Almendros with some kind of old weston meter-

 

Any meter will work, your shutter speed at 24fps is about 1/48th, and i think the westons had a 1/50th mark, so you could read from that for normal speed stuff.

 

You might want to check the meter's accuracy against a still camera or another meter though, those westons are a bit old!