Small & lightweight Incident & reflected light Easy-to-read dial output Sensitive & reasonably accurate

Extra features such as the timer, clock & alarm detract from its functionality. Quite often the mode button is inadvertently pressed in the pocket or in the bag, making the meter useless if required straight away. It is also expensive for what it is.

I don't think there is another light meter available which has the included features for such a small size. This in itself makes it a highly functional instrument.

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Small, but the real strength for me is that its always on.

Plastiky and cheap finish.

Having bought a Sekonic L308 because my L508 was to big when organising wedding groups, I was well disappointed when the thing keeps turning of after 4 mins. Everytime I got it out of my pocket I had to stand there like a lemon waiting for it to warm up. Well not anymore, I discovered the Digisix. Its always on, slips into shirt pocket and ready to work. It is simple to use, I can walk back to camera doing any necessary adjustments in head and I know I won't have to wait for it to start next time I go back to arrange a group. O.k it feels cheap and plastiky but for me it has the convenience of an older selinium cell meter with the accuracy and stenghts of a newer digital meter. The extra functions I will also make good use of. Alarm, countdown, clock etc. Not everybody's cup of tea, but slots into the hole for me .

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Compact/Pocketable Exposure Values in 1/3rd stops Incident and Reflective Measurement Countdown Timer

Lacks an dial to set ISO Flash Shoe adapter must be purchased separately

I occasionally shoot with a couple of classic medium format cameras that lack a light meter. Up to now I've used a 30 year old Gossen Luna-Pro that is still going strong. I thought about purchasing the smaller Voigtlander clip-on meter, but it lacks an incident meter and a read out in EV's, which I prefer. What I don't like is the lack of dial to select the ISO. I find button pushing, which seems to be all to common these days, to be an encumberance. I guess I'll continue to calculate my filter factors mentally. Rather than it being a separate purchase, the accessory/flash shoe adapter should definitely have been included with the digisix. With regards to the plastiky construction, I fully expected it. The count down timer is plus I hadn't expected. The built-in thermometer is a curious feature. All in all I'm pleased with the digisix.

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Abundant features. Fantastic layout. Intuitive controls. Small size.

The most plastic feeling device I have every owned for photography, even more so than my first SLR; a Minolta STSI.

I just got it today. I have been playing with it all afternoon to see if I could get the same accurate readings that I have learned to get with my Mamiya system. And if did not take long at all to sort out. The best feature is the continous contrast readings that can be taken. You hold down the button, move the meter around, and it tells you the difference between the original reading and where it is pointing currently. Awesome.

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always on. many different functions schit, it has thermometer, timer, clock with alarm, contrast measurements. for me switch betwen Fahrenheit and Celsius is very helpful. I know what 65 degrees F means. this little m-f wakes me up every morning! and I can cook my cowbrain with the 30 timer ,which beeps for the last 10 sec.

although I don't have big hands, not at all, it is difficult to operate digisix with one hand. plasticky feel and smell. especially smeel of the case. plasticky feel and smell.

oh, this little cute lightmeter has broken my heart. I wake up with its alarm and cook my lever, soaked in milk, using digisix timer. I love to look how much 25 degrees celsius is,if converted in Fahrenheit (am a european in america). digisix has an excellent design, but it smells of cheap plastic, though. The smallest lightmeter I've seen. Precise. I use with Olympus OM-1 and wish it was metal as my GREAT body is!

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gossen luna pro sbc gossen luna lux no sekonic, don't like the name.

--Small/light, unobtrusive --Simple, always on --Easy to aim & read discretely

--Cheap, plasticky feel. --EV readout, must convert to ap/shutter combo yourself --ISO cycles only upwards; if you want to reset from 400 to 320 you need to cycle all the way through 3200, then start over at 6

I have a Sekonic flash/ambient meter but wanted a smaller, more discrete ambient incident/reflective meter to carry around for street photography, and the Digisix fits the bill. The Digisix measures about 7x5cm and weighs about 60-70g. It nestles comfortably and unobtrusively inside the palm of my hand. ISO can be set in 1/3 stops from 6-3200; EV reads out in whole numbers from 0-18, wider than I'll ever use. There's no on/off switch or warm-up delay, so measurements can be made instantaneously. In metering mode the (unlit) LCD display shows ISO and numerical EV for that ISO. To convert the EV to ap/shutter combination you must rotate the outer plastic dial until the EV is centered in a small read-out window, thereby lining up a set of ap/shutter combinations on the inner and outer dials. Once the EV is set you can see at a single glance all usable ap/shutter combinations (f/1-32; 8sec to 1/2000 sec) for that value. You have to decide which combo to use - one extra mental step for those accustomed to meters with aperture- or shutter-priority modes. The field of view for reflective readings seems narrower than my Sekonic, but the Digisix is easier to aim (palm up vs. palm out) and read (look down, no wrist-twisting). The Digisix agrees with my Sekonic and TTL meters in most situations, which means that I generally add 1/2 stop to the reading in medium light and a full stop in low light. My principal complaint is that the meter feels cheap and plasticky, more so than a $110 instrument should. Bottom line - light, small, simple, suitable for discrete available-light readings. Good instrument for the hobbyist; probably not for a professional on a job assignment.

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