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Excellent app and often use in place of my L-558 light meter. Returns accurate exposure results across various film cameras and film stock.
Lightme - Lightmeter
A clean, powerful lightmeter
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Lightme - Lightmeter is a clean, simple to use yet very powerful lightmeter.
It is optimised for an easy one-handed use, both for left-handed and right-handed users, with the main controls within your thumb's reach, without the fatiguing juggling of your precious smartphone.
A core distinguishing feature of Lightme - Lightmeter is that - differently from most of the other apps - it can show multiple combinations of valid settings for aperture and shutterspeed at the same time by working like a - stretched out - old needle and wheel lightmeter. This allows the user to quickly pick the desired settings without having to scroll on a tiny wheel picker.
The app is designed to be welcoming to people who are just starting out, with a simple one-button use. But it offers many useful and advanced features for the more experienced shooters/users:
Continuous metering (by pressing and holding or double tapping the measure button)
Spot metering with a variable zoom (for more precision) which also supports average metering, and a very intuitive implementation of the zone system
Automatic reciprocity failure compensation (for 25+ films, if you see exposure times in red, they are being compensated)
A dedicated pinhole mode with precise exposure times for user defined apertures (multiple apertures at a time), with the possibility of setting a timer (through a shortcut)
Incident light metering with calibration when using the front facing camera
And more ...
It also includes some other features that are enjoyable by any kind of user:
Black and white preview
The ability to use any of the cameras on your smartphone (swipe left/right on the preview)
Multiple presets for your different camera/film/lens setups
Framelines for previewing your shot, before setting up your tripod etc.
A searchable list of useful tips to make better use of the application's potential
A searchable list of more than 70 films to choose from with the possibility of selecting a few favourites
Dark mode support and a useful level of customisation
You can find even more info in the tips inside the app or you can have a look at full user manual by tapping on manual (in the settings)
The app is free in all its many functionalities, but it offers In-App-Purchases in order to support the project.
The only minor perk you can enable only via certain IAPs is the replacement of the Ad button with a label containing the name of your current preset, check under settings -> coffee for more info.
Don't panic though, even if there's an Ad button it doesn't mean I'm going to show you ads. In fact unless you decide to tap on that button I'm never going to show you any. But if you have a few minutes to spare, watching a few of them sure helps keeping this project alive :)
Try it, and, if you like it, share it with your friends and consider writing a (mini) review ;)
Have a nice day, and good light!
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It is optimised for an easy one-handed use, both for left-handed and right-handed users, with the main controls within your thumb's reach, without the fatiguing juggling of your precious smartphone.
A core distinguishing feature of Lightme - Lightmeter is that - differently from most of the other apps - it can show multiple combinations of valid settings for aperture and shutterspeed at the same time by working like a - stretched out - old needle and wheel lightmeter. This allows the user to quickly pick the desired settings without having to scroll on a tiny wheel picker.
The app is designed to be welcoming to people who are just starting out, with a simple one-button use. But it offers many useful and advanced features for the more experienced shooters/users:
Continuous metering (by pressing and holding or double tapping the measure button)
Spot metering with a variable zoom (for more precision) which also supports average metering, and a very intuitive implementation of the zone system
Automatic reciprocity failure compensation (for 25+ films, if you see exposure times in red, they are being compensated)
A dedicated pinhole mode with precise exposure times for user defined apertures (multiple apertures at a time), with the possibility of setting a timer (through a shortcut)
Incident light metering with calibration when using the front facing camera
And more ...
It also includes some other features that are enjoyable by any kind of user:
Black and white preview
The ability to use any of the cameras on your smartphone (swipe left/right on the preview)
Multiple presets for your different camera/film/lens setups
Framelines for previewing your shot, before setting up your tripod etc.
A searchable list of useful tips to make better use of the application's potential
A searchable list of more than 70 films to choose from with the possibility of selecting a few favourites
Dark mode support and a useful level of customisation
You can find even more info in the tips inside the app or you can have a look at full user manual by tapping on manual (in the settings)
The app is free in all its many functionalities, but it offers In-App-Purchases in order to support the project.
The only minor perk you can enable only via certain IAPs is the replacement of the Ad button with a label containing the name of your current preset, check under settings -> coffee for more info.
Don't panic though, even if there's an Ad button it doesn't mean I'm going to show you ads. In fact unless you decide to tap on that button I'm never going to show you any. But if you have a few minutes to spare, watching a few of them sure helps keeping this project alive :)
Try it, and, if you like it, share it with your friends and consider writing a (mini) review ;)
Have a nice day, and good light!
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4.79 out of 5
102 ratings in United Kingdom
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Crash
Latest update just crashes upon launching
no iOS 16 compatibility!
This app used to be my favourite light meter, but seeing as the app hasn’t been updated to iOS 16, it doesn’t even open. Maybe it’ll get updated soon and I’ll use it again. Edit: after reinstalling the app, it works again!
Seriously good tool
This Lightmeter is extremely sophisticated with a range of excellent modes including whole scene (matrix?) meeting as well as resizeable spot measurement, multiple spot averaging and (my favourite feature) zone system selection, take a spot measurement then place it on a given zone (so cool). Also enables selection of both colour and black and white pre visualisation with associated film format and linked focal length field of view. I LOVE it
Surely the best metering app
The developer really seems to have thought of everything. I tried a lot of other metering apps which did some things but this one really does the lot in a very tidy package. ND correction, reciprocity failure correction for many films, low light metering, user definable aperture and more. Well worth reading through the tips as if you think it doesnt do what you want you will probably find it does. Top marks to the developer and well worth donating to support him.
Easy to use and accurate
Just got my first two films shot using this App back from development and it looks to have got the exposures spot on.
Non functional
Causing phone to get incredibly hot. Can’t change any settings. Can’t even click the gear icon to access settings but ads still work
Life-saver
I downloaded this app because I didn’t have a handheld light meter for when I was out shooting film. This app has saved my skin more than once whilst out on a shoot!
Clear and easy to use
Really quick and easy to use meter. Also rather lovely looking as well!
Modern, easy-to-use light meter
I was very to happy to find this as it’s exactly what I wanted! Set your ISO (or film!), choose if you want any Exposure Comp, then when you measure (with a range of modes) you can see a full Exposure Value chart. I haven’t seen another app do this in such a simple, elegant way. Cheers Giuseppe!
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App Info
- Category
- Photo Video
- Publisher
- Giuseppe Bertolini
- Languages
- English, Italian, Chinese
- Recent version
- 2.5.10 (2 weeks ago )
- Released on
- May 16, 2020 (4 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, China, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, Poland, Japan, France, Australia, Sweden, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Austria, Switzerland, Czechia, Russia, Singapore, India, Vietnam, Spain, Indonesia, Taiwan, Mexico, Portugal, Philippines, Hungary, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Malaysia, Denmark, Colombia, Ukraine, Argentina, Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Thailand, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Israel, Egypt, Belgium, Turkey, Algeria, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Nigeria, Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Romania, Pakistan, Greece, Peru
- Last updated
- 3 weeks ago