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Scarlet and Sekonic l758cine

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Ryan Emanuel

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I've had my l758 for a week now and when running some tests with my scarlet, I found that it was giving me an underexposed reading for middle grey by 1 stop at 320iso with redlogfilm and even more with red gamma 3. So I rented the sekonic exposure test chart II to calibrate the incident and spot meter and create a camera profile for more accurate readings. I followed the instructions and followed the procedure in the manual, but I keep getting but this message:

"The set level does not exist in the image.Change the level to a level that exists in the image in order to calculate."



Has anyone else run into this problem or have any advice?
 
I don't know the particular spotmeter. But I know form times when I did the transition from 35mm to Red that all the ISO readings on the meter and the settings in the camera never matched. With the old M-sensor I found that ISO 320 Red equals something at ISO 200 on the meter, or not. Forget light meter in the digital world. Their time is over. Use the very well working tools that red offers, or simply dial in ISO 500 - 800 and match the picture in the EVF with the picture you see with your left eye.

Hans
 
Hans von Sonntag said:
Forget light meter in the digital world. Their time is over.
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Totally disagree. The Sekonic meter is lightweight, very portable and relatively cheap. When doing location scouting, a properly setup EPIC/Scarlet Sekonic profile will allow you to do a lot of pre-production without having to drag around a Pelican case and, if you are renting, not paying $500/day (or whatever the rate is) to haul it and some lenses to the scouting location.

Same applies to a shooting day with multiple setups. Are you going to be renting/buying a second Scarlet just to enable the lighting crew to pre-light one location while you are still shooting at another?

In addition, I have read, and Sekonic has confirmed that it will have a firmware upgrade to the 758Cine this year that will make it more user-friendly for cinema.
 
Michael Panfeld said:
Totally disagree. The Sekonic meter is lightweight, very portable and relatively cheap. When doing location scouting, a properly setup EPIC/Scarlet Sekonic profile will allow you to do a lot of pre-production without having to drag around a Pelican case and, if you are renting, not paying $500/day (or whatever the rate is) to haul it and some lenses to the scouting location.

Same applies to a shooting day with multiple setups. Are you going to be renting/buying a second Scarlet just to enable the lighting crew to pre-light one location while you are still shooting at another?

In addition, I have read, and Sekonic has confirmed that it will have a firmware upgrade to the 758Cine this year that will make it more user-friendly for cinema.
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michael how did you go about calibrating your meter to the camera?
 
The program and chart (II) worked fine for me (although I have not created a profile for a Scarlet/Epic yet). Is it possible that the chart was not evenly-lit, or that the files werre not saved/imported correctly? Also, there is a lot of data that needs to be entered, is it possibly a typo?
 
im getting a great deal on a Sekonic l-758dr. will this work as good as the cine version. Will i hate myself if i have this model vs the other one?
 
Don't do it, really, get the cine, it is WAY easier to adjust framerates and shutter speeds. I ended up selling mine and getting a cine. Don't make the same mistake I did, it only hurts once, as they say...
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Domenic Barbero said:
im getting a great deal on a Sekonic l-758dr. will this work as good as the cine version. Will i hate myself if i have this model vs the other one?
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I'm pretty sure that the only difference is that the cine has higher frame rates. If you're not doing super slow mo they are pretty much the same thing. One other option is bying the ce version on the l-758cine on ebay for around 550. It'll have all the functionality of the l-758cine for cinematography, you just can't program it with a flash at least with American batteries. I have one of them saved me like $250 and I don't do photgraphy so it was a great deal.
 
The guy is selling me the DR for 400 bucks basically brand new. with lots of extras and charts so i kinda want to go with this one for my budget. But if not shooting higher frame rates ( i own a scarlet ) then it should be fine?
 
excellent. Thanks man.
 
peter please let me know if that works. Ive heard people in this thread say it works pretty accurately out of the box if you put iso at 320 and have camera set at 800. Let me know though if your calibration works and if it provides and accurate exposure. :)
 
I think I'm gonna sell mine...still got the original box and everything. Offers?
 
Patrick how did you use the actual files that REW has to download? I mean, I understood the image files and how they were used manually to calibrate the camera, but how do you use the profile files?
 
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