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Tips on using a spotmeter, making it compatible with your electronic flash, and testing it for flare problems.
DARKROOM & CREATIVE CAMERA TECHNIQUES Jul-Aug 1987 (v.8#4) pg. 2

Spotflash metering. Part 1. A review of the Sekonic Digi-Spot L-488 1-degree spotmeter which reads flash or continuous light. Techniques for getting the most from this and similar new meters.
DARKROOM & CREATIVE CAMERA TECHNIQUES Jul-Aug 1987 (v.8#4) pg. 19

Spotflash metering. Part 2. How to interpret what the spotmeter tells you about your subject.
DARKROOM & CREATIVE CAMERA TECHNIQUES Nov-Dec 1987 (v.8#6) pg. 48

Flashmate. Build a professional-quality flash meter.
ELECTRONICS HOBBYISTS HANDBOOK 1989 pg. 104

Direct-reading strobe exposure meter. Tells the correct f-stop setting for an electronic flashgun. Place the meter at the subject, fire the strobe, and read the f-stop. Est. cost: $20.
ELECTRONICS ILLUSTRATED May 1969 (v.12#3) pg. 71

Electronic photoflash meter. A fast-reading light meter with a memory circuit measures light for photoflash exposures.
ELECTRONICS WORLD Jun 1970 (v.83#6) pg. 62

Electronic strobe flash meter. Determines the necessary F-stop for a given film ASA. Simply trigger the flash before you take the picture to determine the light output. Set F-stop as indicated by the meter, then take the picture.
ELEMENTARY ELECTRONICS Jul-Aug 1971 (v.11#3) pg. 27

Flashmeter gives you the right f-stop for any flash at any distance and for any type film from ASA 10 to ASA 400. It can be used in the ambient mode, in which you aim directly at your flash output, or reflected mode, which measures light reflected from the subject.
ELEMENTARY ELECTRONICS Sep-Oct 1977 (v.17#5) pg. 58

Seeing the light with flashmate. Build a flash meter with professional features. After selecting the correct ASA value from a calibrated dial, the meter will tell you the correct f-stop setting.
HANDS-ON ELECTRONICS Nov 1987 (v.4#11) pg. 32
Correction HANDS-ON ELECTRONICS Feb 1988 (v.5#2) pg. 4

Tricks of the trade. (1) Modify a flash meter to work from a PC cord. (2) How to process eight 4x5 prints, four 5x7 or two 8x10s in a standard 11x14 drum. (3) Use opaquing pens or rubylith material to eliminate (knock out) backgrounds on medium or large format negatives.
INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHY Apr 1984 (v.33#4) pg. 25

Understand the limitations of flash exposure meters.
MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY Apr 1970 (v.34#4) pg. 40

Exposure meters. Which type is best for you? Looks at reflected-light meter, incident-light meter, spot meter, built-in camera meter, and flash meters.
PHOTOGRAPHIC May 1985 (v.14#1) pg. 77

Get the right exposure with a flashmeter. Comparision of various models and guidelines on using them.
POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY Apr 1989 (v.96#4) pg. 28

An electronic flash light meter. This device measures the total light energy contained in a brief burst of electronic light and then remembers the measurement for several seconds. Est. cost: $20.
POPULAR SCIENCE Mar 1969 (v.194#3) pg. 112

Flash-mate for perfect flash photos. Photosensitive transistor measures light and displays the correct f-stop for any flash at any distance and for any film type from ASA 10 to ASA 400. Unit can be calibrated to measure either ambient light or reflected light.
SCIENCE & MECHANICS Spring 1978 pg. 62

Selecting and using flash meters to measure incident light from off-camera flash units.
SHUTTERBUG #314 Nov 1996 (v.26#1) pg. 216

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