The iPhone democratized photography and disrupted the video and camera industry. Now a new product that plugs into the iPhone’s Lightning port aims to replace an important photographer’s tool — the ...

Dip into the complex metering modes on a modern digital camera and it’s easy to forget that photographers once relied on dedicated handheld devices to meticulously measure light before firing the ...

Fully-manual analog film cameras can be fun and interesting to use, but it sucks when they don't have a built-in light meter. That's where the Hedeco Lime One comes in, as it's a digital light meter ...

[Marc] has an old Voigtländer Vito CLR film camera. The camera originally came with an analog light meter built-in. The meter consisted of a type of solar panel hooked up to a coil and a needle. As ...

Having already convinced some photographers to leave their dedicated light meter at home in favor of its Lumu smartphone add-on, Lumulabs is back with a significantly more powerful light meter for the ...

Light meters aren’t quite the photography must-have now that they are built into the camera itself, but one startup is bringing the timeless tool into 2018 with a long list of modern features, from ...

Photographers have been using handheld light meters throughout the years to capture photos with a consistent exposure. Most digital cameras out there have built-in light meters, but the technology ...

Most PN-junction diodes can be used as photodiodes. While not optimized for this application, they do work. When the diode is reverse biased, it will produce a small photovoltaic output as the light ...