Ok, it's been almost a decade since I've had to study Maxwell's equations, but I remember a certain facet from those equations that always astounded me. It was the fact that the speed of light could ...

Home improvement addicts really get excited about their power tools. And in the shadow of drills and sanders, the multimeter doesn't get much love. Too bad, because multimeters are just as useful and ...

In the days of old, back when television was solely recorded on a thing called “film,” the cinematographer was known as a kind of fortune-teller/ magician who could mysteriously read the light in the ...

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Light meters, these days, are no longer a mystery: From home-improvement stores to eBay and Amazon you can find have at least a few units available for purchase. An open-source light meter, however, ...

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 ...