A light meter as a standalone device. Do you even need it nowadays? And if yes, do you have to spend a rather high three-digit figure in dollars? The Luxi For All might be the first step into these waters. It utilizes your existing phone and therefore it’s cheap, it’s very easy to use and you can expand its capabilities by using third-party apps. Pretty neat, I’d say. The Luxi For All light meter is not a new product, far from it. Originally, it started as a Kickstarter campaign, back in May 2014. It is the successor of the original Luxi (Kickstarter campaign) but with an upgraded mechanism for attaching it to virtually any mobile devices – that’s why it’s called Luxi For All. Luxi For All This device is really nothing fancy but maybe that’s the beauty of it. It’s just a clip that holds a translucent dome. The whole thing can be clipped on to your phone so that the dome covers your front-facing camera. That’s it, the magic is being applied via software. So what’s the advantage of this over your average camera? Well, the camera measures the brightness of a particular scene by the intensity of light reflected from objects within the frame. However, a dedicated light meter detects and measures the incident light before it hits a surface, known as incident light measurement. This gives you far better control over what precisely you measure. You can use a professional, fully-featured light meter, like a Sekonic, and you’ll get...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 16 October, 2019