The automatic setting on the modern digital camera will provide the best exposure for the scene you are photographing 80 percent to 90 percent of the time. Unfortunately, this automatic mode may not ...

Exposure compensation is a way to modify the camera’s automatic exposure settings in order to adjust the levels of darkness and brightness in an image. Although the automatic light meter mechanism on ...

Dip into the complex metering modes on a modern digital camera and it’s easy to forget that photographers once relied on dedicated handheld devices to meticulously measure light before firing the ...

is an editor overseeing The Verge’s product reviews and service journalism programs. Dan has covered the technology world for over a decade at The Verge. Photography is all about light. It’s about ...

[Marc] has an old Voigtländer Vito CLR film camera. The camera originally came with an analog light meter built-in. The meter consisted of a type of solar panel hooked up to a coil and a needle. As ...

Serious photographers sometimes spend hundreds of dollars on an incident light meter–a small handheld device that measures the light falling on the subject. Luxi is a $30 iPhone accessory that ...

Every new camera sold today has some sort of light meter built in. Its purpose is to read the scene you’re composing and, if you’re shooting on the dreaded “Auto” mode, tell the camera how to ...

Photographers, makers and Raspberry Pi enthusiasts may be interested in a great project that provides inspiration and instructions on building your very own camera light meter. The Photon is a compact ...