Sekonic L-758DR Question

[SYS]

I used my Sekonic L-758DR for the first time today in my basement home studio, and what a fantastic meter!! This gotta be THE perfect companion to the PW's... :D

One issue I encountered during the wireless remote shooting was that I couldn't do the aperture-priority metering, only the shutter speed-priority. Is this the way the meter is made when shooting in wireless mode, or did I miss something?

[TMR Design]

Hi SooYoung,

When you're using strobes or flash you work in shutter priority mode.

Think about it....

You shoot with your camera in Manual mode, you've set the ISO and the shutter sync speed. Your shutter speed does not change. So if you establish that your flash units sync at 1/250s then that speed and your ISO are set in the meter and when you fire the strobes the meter calculates the aperture for correct exposure.

Shutter priority on the meter comes in to play when you're shooting ambient light and you don't have a sync speed to worry about. You can work in shutter or aperture priority mode for ambient light but only shutter priority when using flash.

[SYS]

Hi SooYoung,

When you're using strobes or flash you work in shutter priority mode.

Think about it....

You shoot with your camera in Manual mode, you've set the ISO and the shutter sync speed. Your shutter speed does not change. So if you establish that your flash units sync at 1/250s then that speed and your ISO are set in the meter and when you fire the strobes the meter calculates the aperture for correct exposure.

Shutter priority on the meter comes in to play when you're shooting ambient light and you don't have a sync speed to worry about. You can work in shutter or aperture priority mode for ambient light but only shutter priority when using flash.

Ah.... That makes sense... Thanks, Robert! :D