Light Meter Apps in Low Light 

I have used the iPhone meter (myLightmeterPro) with great success in pinhole photography with relatively long exposure times (1 sek - 30 sek). No physical meter would have been better. Since I have my iPhone with me at all times, I no longer use anything other than my iPhone. I have used other apps, but MyLightmeterPro is all I use now. Great app. Nice iPhone 12. I only have used the reflective functions. i like very much the 5 settings for different lenses. My only problem is when I get a new iPhone 16. Then I will have to check if their readings are properly correlated. I have only recently come across TheNakedPhotographer, and I find this to be the best youtube ever! I will contribute (to Patreon, I think I saw ...) shortly.

Very interesting. I recently shot a roll of hp5 in 120 in an industrial area after dark. I don't have an incident meter but my minolta spot meter was doing fine until I found a very dark scene where I couldn't get a reading from it (needed a flashlight to focus). I tried my nikon f80 with a 50mm 1.4 and it was also unable to read. So I downloaded a light meter app that gives a reflected reading from the rear facing camera and it gave me something like 20s at 2.8 before reciprocity correction. The negative (box speed in xtol 1:1) was perfect. I've got no idea what the meter weighting pattern is but I had the same shadow density on that frame as the rest of the roll when contact printed. Granted hp5 is a very forgiving film, but still. This was using Samsung galaxy s8 btw. Love your channel.

Thanks for doing this! I use this app, and I shoot in lower light situations. Though I've had decent results, I've wondered how it would compare to a quality light meter.

You rock man !!! the best method ever !! thanks for sharing !!

This is great info for me - I use an iPhone 7+ to meter, so this gives me food for thought! : )

Ok, I have that app in pro version, I would like to know if you have proceeded to make the right calibration on both phones. Thank you!

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Where did you buy the spherical diffuser phone adapter? I’ve looked but I can’t find it anywhere

Do you need that little attachment for the phones? I have the app but i always thought it used the rear cameras and not the selfie cams?

This light meter gave accurate results on my Sony phone

What a shame there is no sound in the video 😔