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What I would like to see is an ambient/incident lightmeter springboard expansion. It would be nice to be able to calculate for any shutter speed (including a cine scale for us part time filmmakers) and any aperature. Possibilities would be endless -- Put in your desired DOF and all calculations would be done - not to mention flash metering and so forth... Being able to expand on the software would be a wonderful addition to this (i.e. to use the variables in many situation...)

Man - I would love to see this module...Anyone Else?

Imagiworks has SensorScience light sensor springboard, check out http://www.imagiworks.com/prod_cons/prod_ss.html for more info. Not exactly what you are looking for but something along the way.

Marcus

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Way ahead of you fern.

I contacted Imagiworks several weeks ago about this very thing. A light meter to go with some kind of frame tracking software (light conditions, fstop, shutter speed, film speed, etc.) Heck, you could even ir synch the visor to work with a remote shutter release! They told me, "Yeah, we thought about that too and it sounds great! But - we're primarily focusing on our 'learning tools' right now...so maybe next year." That's paraphrasing it anyway. BUT, maybe if a whole BUNCH of people wrote to them saying how cool that would be...so get to work!!!

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It will be interesting hf the science kit can be used to measure incident light (footcandles), reflected light/ surface luminance, and (now I'm fantasizing) CIE chromaticity or colorimetry. Here's hoping!

What I would hope for in an ideal situation is just a springboard module that adds the little ambient light bulb to the top of the visor. Maybe one with a bulb and a spot but either way, just give it the rough outline of a motorola IVf... with a boatload of potential and possibilities......

For a visor light meter to truly be functional, it would have to be both an incident and spot meter, much like the design of the new sekonic. If it doesn't have a spot, that leaves the DP still carrying two to three meters (incident, spot, and color temperature meters) around with him. As far as the software...David Eubank (www.davideubank.com) already has a depth of field calculator and a camera log database program for the palm platform.

Were the software to be adapted to be paired with an incident/spot meter, it could be quite a desireable filmmaking tool, as it would generate an instantly accessable camera log. You could quickly check which prime you used in the third set-up two weeks ago without takeing your eyes off your visor.

I know I'd buy it as soon as it was available.

@utomouse

Hell with light, we need a sound level meter so I can callibrate my stereo finally. There could be plenty of stuff on the readout to make it worth a few bucks. I'd buy it.

I agree a spot / incident meter would be an excellent springboard

@utomouse,
I checked out David Eubanks website. He did good job on developing a useable DOF calculator and log book. Have you seen anything similar to this for still photographers?

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Speed Racer

Nope, I haven't seen any good programs for still photography, but I can't say I've been looking for them either. It should be pretty simple to make a still photography DOF/exposure/reciprocity calculator and maybe a small DB program to catalog your photographs as you take them.

David eubanks stuff looked very usefull to me, and I must admit that it's pretty much the single reason I've decided to buy into the palmOS line. Now I just have to decide between the Vx with an omnisky modem, or a visor in hopes that they'll create a usefull springboard (not just gadgets and toys).

Where is David Eubanks's Site?