Sekonic Micro-Leader L-98 single page User manual

.  Use the Reflected-light-Type Meter Properly
       The sekonic L-98 is on exposure meter of the reflected-
           light type. The reflected type of exposure meter meosures
       the light reflected  f rom o subiect ond indicotes the
        correct exposure. Do not use this meter in meosuring
        the light incident on o subiect. L-98 is ihe best of oll
       the exposure meters now ovoiloble on the morket os it
       hos been developed by the engineers of Sekonic Co.,
        ofter mony yeors of reseorch. Model L-gg, which uses
       codmium sulfide (CdSl, hos on extremely wide ronge of
       meosurement ond indicotes the correct exposure of ony
       fime qnd ploce. The meter, quite thin in thickness ond
         light in weight, moy be corried in your pocket. lt con
      be monipuloted by one hond.





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ar, Feotures:
 Highly sensitive codmium sulfide (CdS)
 Thin in thickness ond light in weight
  Reflected lype   High/Low switch lever
  Meosuring Ronge: LV 3-'18 with ASA 100
  Switch Button ('Push-button' Type)'
  Bottery Checker

 o Specificolions

  CdS IMPR 63) - one Piece
   Mercury BotterY l.3V
    Reflected Light tYPe
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   Meosurins Ronge (ASA too) a::iffii:::::

       Low-level LV 3-ll  60'
  LV Scofe z -2-19
  ASA Scole: 6-12,000
  DIN Scolez 9-42
   f/stops Scole:  f ll - 32
   Shufter Speed Scole: l/ZOO0-
   Cine Scole:
           {Aperturel Fll - 32
            (Film Speedl B - 64 f.P's.
   Meqsurements: 50.6 x77.2x28.3 nm
                  Diol Diometer -  48.5 mm  Weight: '120 groms

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  o Equip q Bqltery fo the Meter

   When using the meter for the flrsi time, put o mercury
    bottery in the Mercury Bottery Chomber. Set the bottery
    into position so thot thot side of the bottery beoring the
   mork "M-D" comes in contoct with the Botiery Chqmber
    Lid. When the boftery is ploced in the chomber, moke
   sure thot the lid is screwed tight. Depress the Botiery.
   Check Knob and see if the Pointer stops in line with
   the Bottery Check Point. lf the Pointer does not swing
   ond stop ot tlre check point, the Meter is not working
    properly ond if this is the cose, you must chonge the
    bottery with o new one. The Mercury Boltery of l.3V
     is used with the meTer.





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     Align the Pointer with the Zero Point
After the bottery hos been ploced in the chomber, check
ond see if the Pointer stops in line with the Zero point
when the Switch Button is not depressed. lf the pointer
does not stop in line with the Zero Point olthough the
Switch Button is not depressed, turn with o screwdriver
the Zero corrector ploced on upper bock side of the
Meter so thot the Pointer comes in contoct with the
Zero Point.

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    Use the Reflected Light-Type Meter Properly  !
    After the boltery hos been ploced in the chomber, the
    bottery checked ond the Pointer brought in line with
   lhe Zero Point, L-98 is reody to meosure ihe light ond
    indicoie the correct exposure with very seldom necessity
    for reodiustment ofterwords. The only remoining question
    lies in how you use fhe reflected light-iype exposure
   meter os instructed.
   Set the Proper Film Speed
   Checti the instructions shpet of your film ond you will
    find the sensitivity figure of the film you ore using.  lf
   the figure is, soy, ASA 100, hold the Highilow Switch
   Lever tight ond turn the ASA Swirch Knob so thot the
  ASA reoding "100" oppeors in the smoll slit underneoth
   fhe word "ASA."
    Set the ASA' film speed
    Turn the ASA  f ilm speed switch knob so thot the ASA"
    reoding of your film oppeors  in  the slit under the word
       " ASA"".





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Point the Meter ot the Subiect
To .meosure the light, point the Meter
toword the subiect right  f rom the
comero position.

 A. From lhe Comero Position
   (( LqndscoPes)
When you use this method, moke sure
thot the Meter is tilted down so thot
it points midwoy between
your feet ond the port of
the sub[ect on which yo
desire to put speciol emphosis. Moke
sure thot the sky hos no port in the
meter reoding. Otherwise, your pictures
will be under-exposed. When you toke
photogrophs of o vost londscope or
mountoins in the distonce, reduce by
holf the reoding which you hove token
from the Meter.
Let us ossume thot one of the meter
reodings you hove token is; soy, 11250
second oI   f f22, 11250 second multiplied
bV 112 equols l/500 second. In other
words, the correct exposure is 1i500
second ot   f 122,

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   B. Meosurement for Close-ups. ((Portroit>>
  When this method is used, ploce the Meter obout 10
   centimeters (obout 3 inches) from the subiect for meosure-
  ment. In portroiture, the most importont port of  the
   subiect is the foce. Ploce the meter os close to the
  fqce os possible to hove the meter meosure the light
   reflected from the foce. When it is impossible to come
   neor the subiect, use your polm or o stondord reflector
   in the light condition motched to the importont port of
   the subiect. In either cose, moke sure thot your polm
   or the reflector must not be shodowed by the meter.

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       Eepress the Switch Button
      With the Meter pointed toword the subiect in the
       monner mentioned eorlier, depress the Switch Button.  lf
       the Pointer does not swing with the High/Lorv Switch I       Lever sei for highlight meosurement (Picture A), move
       the lever fully in the opposite direction for low light $        meosurement ond ihen depress the Switch Button ogoin.
          (Picture B)





       Turn the Guide Mork Diol to Align
       the Guide Mork with the Pointer
      When the Switch Button is depressed, the Pointer swings
       ond stops oi o certoin point within one second. Turn
        the Guide Mork Diql (outer diol) to olign the Guide
       Mork (green-colored follow-pointer) with the Pointer.
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 when the Pointer ond the Guide Mork ore brought into
  line with eoch other, the scoles of shuttercpuJd, ond
  lens opertures ore now in their correct rerotion to eoch
  other to give o complete ronge of reloted shutter speeds
                                                                             .the ond lens opertures, ony one of which will give
  correct exposure. rf one of the correct combinotions of
 shutter speeds ond lens opertures is 1l3O ,".ond ot
   f l5'6:ony intermediote combinotion, such os lfzso r".ond
    flZ or 1160 second ot  f f 4, moy olso be used. 7t
 In other words, whotever combinotion you choose
 depends upon the subiect conditions ond your photo-
 grophing motive. For exomple, o ropidly moving subiect
 needs o fost shutter speed ond therefore o ror-g" oper-
 ture, which in turn covers o norrow zone of shorpness.
 A subiect of greot depth needs o smoll operture ond
 therefore o slow speed. Choice of best settings moy need o compromise.
 set your comero occording to o set of reloted shutter
 speed ond lens operture reodings. rf your comerq is of
 the light-volue system, then tqke q reoding from the EV
 (LV) Scqle.

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         l. Boloncing for Tone Ronge
       The following method is recommended when pictures ore
       to be token in the condition thot there is o shorp
        controst in the tone ronge of the subiect.
*      Ploce the Meter obout l0 centimeters (obout 3 inchesl
a      from the subiect to meosure the light reflected from the
         highlight ond shodow of the subiect. Choose the inter-
       mediote volue from both scole reodings. When portroits
       ore to be token in this method, it is odvisoble to use
         ouxiliory lights or reflectors so thot the tone ronge will
      be of the order of 4,1 or less. (The tdne ronge is the
         rotio of highlight to shodow brightness.) ln color photo-
       grophy, moke sure thot the tone ronge is of the order
       of 4zl or less.t
      2, Meosuremenf in qn Extremely Dork Ploce
        ln the extremely dork ploce where the light is so poor
        thot the Pointer does not swing ot oll even if the High/
     Low Lever Switch is set   f or low light meosurement
        point the Meter toword the light source (for exomple,
       the moon). Whotever scole reoding you moy obtoin
                                    '10.       must be multiplied by       lf one of the correct combi-
 }      notions of shutter speeds ond' lens opertures is 1115
       second ot f 11.4, l/15 second must be multiplied by 10.
      The onswer for the correct exposure is obout oie
       second ot  f 11.4.

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    3. When the Comero ls Agoinst the Lighf . . .
   A. To moke Silhoettes
     Poini the Meter toword the sky or the v,zhite bockground.
    Toke photogrophs exoctly os the Meter indicotes. Since
    the exposure is set for the bright bockground, the
     sub[ect i; undei'-expcsed ond shown os o block shope
    on the white bockground.
    B" To Delineofe the Subject in Reor Lighting
   To meosure the lrght, ploce the Meter neor the shodow
    of the subiect. ln this cose, moke sure thot the light
    coming from the bock of the subiect hos no port in the
    meter reoding.
   C. To Delineote the Subiect ond Bockground In Reor
   Lightins
    Meosure the light reflected  f rom the shodow of the
    subiect first ond then meosure ihe light reflected from
    the bright bcckground. For the meosurement of  the
    bockground, refer to the method token from the cqmero
     position on Poge 6. Then choose the intermediote volue
    from both reodings. This method, however, does not fit
    for use when the rotio of subject to bockground is of
    ,he order of l,l6  or more,

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      fhc Sekonic Metcr L-98 is not provided with o scole
      of filter foctors. The operiure volue obtoined from the
      metcr must bc increosed occording to the foctor of
      the filter you ore using on your comero. Exomple:  lf
      your filter hos o foctor of 2x ond one of the combi-
       notiort3 of lens operiures ond shutter speeds is theI      order of 11250 second ot   f lB, the correct exposure
J,     will, therefore, be of ihe order of l/.I25 second ot f/g.
     5. Extreme Close-ups
     The true lens operture volue for o close-up is given by
      the equotion: -
           MXD               f=

      where T - True operture volue
          D - Distonce between lens ond film surfoce
          F - Fccol length of lens
       Exomple  When the focol length of the lens is SO                           '        millimeters, lhe distonce between the lens ond the film                 .|00      surfoce is       millimeters ond one of the correct
       combinctions of opertures ond shutter speeds is the
      order of il4 second ot   f f 4, the true operture volue is:
            1x100
                          50     =$
       This meons thct even if the lens is stopped ot  f f 4, the
       operture in ihis instonce is the soms os for flB. The'e_
       fore the operture musf be increosed by four times. The
       correci exposure is the order of 4 seconds of   f lB or
      one second ot {14.TI
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     Cine Photogrophy r
   As for os the meosuremerrt is concerned, there is no
    difference between cine comeros ond still comeros. ln
    controst to the 35mm still cqmero, the cine comero hos
   o shutter speed scole colibroted in fromes per second,
    such os B, 16, 32 ond 64 f.p.s. Toke o film speed
    reoding from the "Movie" scole provided on the inner
    diol of the Meter.
    In ordinory 8mm cine photogrophy, the stondoid film
   speed is l6 f.p.s. (l/30 second). A scole of reloted film

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 l Do nol ,leqve lhe meier in o humid ploce for o
   long lime.
2. Do not ploce the meier in o ploce with o temperoture
   of more thon 60o.
3, Do not drop or ior the meter.
4. The meter, when not in use for o long time, must be
   token out of the leother cose ond kept with o domp-
   proofing ogent in o poulownio or other box. Do not
   keep it in o sofe or ony other mctollic contoiner.
5. Also, the some method os obove 4 must be opplied
   to sofeguord the mercury bettery.

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     Your Sekonic Micro-Leoder Exposure Meter is guoron-
    leed ogoinst foully rvorkmonship ond moteriols for
    o period of one yeor from the dole of sole. lt should
   be hondled with the co re which fine, precision
     mechonism deserves.
    Should it become incperolive within the guoronlee
     peiiod, return it for repoir. Re-pcck it in its originol
     contoiner, pocking with ot leost on inch of cushioning
     to preveht further domoge. lf originol conloiner hcs
     been disposed of, use o sturdy corrugoled cordboord
     box. Address ii to ony Sekonic Service Deportment
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