The best light meter for photography is rarely at the forefront of the average photographer’s mind nowadays, thanks to the reliability of in-camera light meters and handy metering aids such as electronic viewfinders and ‘blinkies’. However, the rise of film photography over the past few years has prompted a renewed interest in these relics of photography’s past, such as the TTArtisan Light Meter II.
You see, built-in light meters in the best film cameras aren’t always reliable and some film cameras don’t have built-in light meters at all. And while you can spend hundreds of dollars on supremely accurate light meters that professionals still use in the studio, such as the Sekonic L-308X Flashmate, which can measure reflected, incident, and flash lighting, sometimes all you want as you traverse the world with your film camera is a simple, reflected-metering unit that gets the job done.
