Must admit extremely tempted by the new Sekonic L-308S as reviewed by Lee Frost in this month's Outdoor Photography.
He says
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In all modes the L308s can be used to measure incident light (the light falling on your subject) and reflected light (the light bouncing off your subject). Your camera's integral metering system measures reflected light, and I'm sure you will have discovered by now that it can be fooled into underexposure if the subject has high reflectancy eg a snow scene or overexposure if your subject has low reflectancy eg a black cat in a coal cellar.
For this reason you're going to use the L308s to measure incident light whenever possible as the readings you get won't be influenced by subject reflectancy and therefore more likely to be accurate.
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Anyone else use a lightmeter?