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Do you need an external light meter?

Do you need an external light meter?

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Do you need an external light meter?

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- When you bought your camera, you probably paid a lot of attention to the image quality that the camera produced and I'm sure you looked at feature set and build quality and interface and all those things that reviewers talk about when they review a camera. At that time, you might've paid attention to the light meter, but since then you've probably just used the light meter in your camera. These days, as with all other camera functions, light metering technology is pretty spectacular. Now, in the old days, when you had a camera you didn't have a light meter built into the camera and so you had to use an external light meter. As with all things photography related, external light meters are now much more advanced than they used to be. No light meter in the old days looked anything remotely like this. And if you've been in a camera store, you've probably seen these external light meters on the shelf and wondered, "Is…

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