Stylish Keks M-meter Brings Light Metering to Older Leica M Cameras

Keks Camera introduced a new M-meter light meter with digital OLED for Leica M cameras that lack a meter.

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2025-3-8 21:00

Photography Cheat Sheet: Metering Modes in a Nutshell

If you're yet to master your camera's features and settings, understanding the metering modes is one of the crucial ones to get started with. Your camera evaluates the best exposure settings to choose based on a particular scene through this functionality. thephoblographer.com »

2019-8-6 10:00

Useful Photography Tip #183: The Trick Your Sony Camera Has That You’re Probably Not Using

Photographers who want better metering of their scene should know that Sony has a bit more science to their camera metering system than you'd think. Besides the more traditional center weighted, spot metering (which can be linked to the focusing point) and evaluative metering modes there is another another option called "Entire Screen Average. thephoblographer.com »

2018-5-7 13:00

You Need To See this Deep Dive On the Science Behind Exposure and Metering

Exposure is an integral part of photography; you literally deal with this every single time you take a picture or look at the live view coming from your digital camera. Metering is also a very important part to how digital cameras work, especially those working in some sort of automatic mode; this is how your camera decides to measure the light and by extension, figure out what a ‘proper’ exposure for the scene is. thephoblographer.com »

2018-4-10 22:00

The Science of Exposure and Metering: Light’s Pathway from Scene to Sensor

You’ve probably learned about the exposure triangle countless times by now. If you want a deeper understanding of the science of exposure, though, check out this 30-minute video by Filmmaker IQ. petapixel.com »

2018-3-29 20:18

Simpler Than You Think: The Secret To Metering a Portrait Photo With a Flash

Sooooooooo many photographers are completely and totally scared of using a flash, but in all truthfulness it's probably sometimes easier than metering for natural light. Because a camera has options like aperture priority for a photographer to tell the camera only what depth of field a photographer wants, lots of photographers tend to opt for this setting more than anything else. thephoblographer.com »

2017-8-21 13:00

Useful Photography Tip #180: Spot Meter A Portrait For the Skin, Focus on the Eyes

Here's yet another quick portrait photography tip for lots of photographers who have been reading the meters of their cameras but getting the readings wrong. You see, light meters in cameras tend to read a scene and meter for what you tell it to meter for. thephoblographer.com »

2017-7-19 13:00