Digiflash meter

[bennie_nickolas_hinojos]

<p>Hello, I am a student and was going to play around with a hand held flash unit. I have a digisix light meter that has done well for me, but I rented out the digiflash meter since I needed to meter the strobe...but I am not really sure how to work this meter. It has a few features that which I am sure are for reading strobes that I just can't figure out. Primarily it is the Lo, Hi, and Fo display which I don't know about. Or how to properly measure. I tried asking my teacher and he had not used that meter and the stock room did not have the manual for us to go over. So now I am here online asking for some help and trying to locate a PDF instruction booklet that can help me. But I thought about asking my brethren here on photo.net. I have to return the equipment tomorrow night and was just wanted to get some experience with these tools of the trade before the semester ended and I didn't have access to it. I wanted to thank you all. If you need more info, I am shooting with a Calumet 45NXT camera body, I have a Schneider 210mm lens on a copal 1 shutter aperture range 5.6-45. I am using Tmax 100 film. and the flash unit i am renting is a Sunpack auto 383 super. Thank you for all your help.<br>

Ben</p>

[henryp]

<p>Digiflash L-458 instructions:<br /> http://www.butkus.org/chinon/flashes_meters/sekonic_l-458/sekonic_l-458.htm</p>

<p>Henry Posner<br /> <strong>B&H Photo-Video</strong></p>

[bennie_nickolas_hinojos]

<p>Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear about which meter I have. It was the Gossen Digiflash meter, which looks identical to my Gossen Digisix just with a color change. Sorry Henry about me being unclear, and thank you for your help.</p>

[ilkka]

<p>I don't have my Digiflash with me now and I don't remember those Hi and Lo settings that you mention. But the flash metering works so that you select a suitable shutter speed in your camera, then set the same shutter speed on the meter, you need to press the mode button until you get to the flash metering mode which shows EV number and speed and press the other button (I think, you need to try a bit) to adjust the speeds. Then you put the meter next to the subject with the dome on and point it towards the camera, press the metering button and fire the flash. The meter will wait for some 30 seconds for the flash to fire. The meter will then show an EV value. You set the EV value on the meter scale and read the aperture from the scale next to the pre-set shutter speed. This is a bit complicated way of measuring flash and that is why the digiflash is not a good choice for a flash meter. Much better to get a Sekonic or some higher end Gossen model. But it works if you have it.</p>

[rodeo_joe1]

<p>What's wrong with going straight to the "horse's mouth" at Gossen?<br>

Here's the manual download page:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.gossen-photo.de/english/foto_service.html">http://www.gossen-photo.de/english/foto_service.html</a></p>

<p>And the shortcut to the PDF Digiflash manual:<br>

<a href="http://www.gossen-photo.de/pdf/ba_digiflash_gb.pdf">http://www.gossen-photo.de/pdf/ba_digiflash_gb.pdf</a></p>

[rodeo_joe1]

<p>Right, just checked and Gossen can't get their filenames right. Here's a link to the manual that actually works:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.gossen-photo.de/pdf/ba_digiflash_e.pdf">http://www.gossen-photo.de/pdf/ba_digiflash_e.pdf</a></p>

[rodeo_joe1]

<p>BTW, that Lo, Hi and oF appear to be the temperature measuring functions!</p>

[bennie_nickolas_hinojos]

<p>yeah Rodeo Joe, I figured that out and it appears I figured out how to get the flash metering function now. My main mistake was to test the metering function while the flash was too close to the meter and I guess when it is outside the EV range the meter can read it just doesn't give you EV reading or even an error message just returns to the previous setting. Once I tried it with the flash some distance from the meter then I got a reading and was able to now understand this meter. Thank you all for your help </p>